A K-Pop concert will be held in Hong Kong in February and aired across mainland China by a state-run broadcaster, the organiser said, amid growing hopes of cultural exchanges between China and South Korea after nearly a decade of an unofficial ban. Chinese President Xi Jinping last month visited South Korea for the first ‍time in 11 years and held a summit with South Korean President Lee Jae Myung, where the two leaders also discussed cultural exchanges, raising hopes of China lifting its unofficial ban on Korean culture. The unofficial ban was introduced in 2017 as China protested against the U.S. deployment of a missile shield system in South Korea and has in ‍effect meant no Korean concerts or TV shows have been approved by the Chinese ‍authorities. Dream Concert 2026 will be held at Kai Tak Sports Park for two days from ‌February 6 and the recording will be broadcast by China's state-run Hunan Television, according to ‍From Entertainment, a South Korean firm organising the event. "It will be the first time for a K-Pop concert to be broadcast in mainland China since ‌cultu