WATCH: This new K-pop group was created with AI and deepfake technology

North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un can angrily denounce K-pop as a "vicious cancer" all he wants. It's not just that pop music has become one of the most beloved exports from his neighbor to the south, but also pretty much the entirety of South Korean popular culture -- everything from movies to music and TV shows, which have combined to form a staggeringly massive entertainment industry juggernaut, with few if any equals.

Netflix, for example, recognizes this and is currently pouring millions of dollars into funding new original Korean dramas and movies, like the newly released emotional masterpiece Move to Heaven, about a "trauma cleaner" and his uncle who pack up the belongings of people who've died and help their families to move on. All told, Netflix reportedly plans to spend half a billion dollars in 2021 on South Korean content, which also coincides with a moment that finds South Korean pop groups (like Blackpink and BTS) being among the biggest in the world. Those two groups, in particular, have millions of fans around the world and have incomprehensibly massive audiences on social media -- which might explain why the four members of Blackpink, in particular, got their own documentary treatment on Netflix, via their movie Light Up The Sky. Meanwhile, technology is helping point toward a futuristic and potentially even more lucrative new chapter for Korean pop music, in particular. A new K-pop group called Eternity recently made its debut, via the song I'm Real, but this 11-member girl group is much different from anything else in the K-pop universe right now.