Santa Goes East: Christmas Music from Asia

Pop Goes Asia an Asian pop music internet radio station is hosting a one-of-a-kind collection of holiday music in Korean, Japanese, Mandarin and Cantonese. The webcast is available 24 hours a day until December 26th. Listeners can go to PopGoesAsia.com to tune in.

Marin County, CA (PRWEB) November 29, 2005 -- Christmas songs in Asia? Who knew? If you needed more proof that you can find just about anything on the internet, here it is.

Observed in various ways throughout Asia, the Christmas season has inspired a growing collection of "Holiday Music" in Korea, Japan, Hong Kong and Taiwan. Pop Goes Asia, a website that features internet radio stations for Korean Pop (K-Pop) and Mandarin Pop (Mando-Pop) has brought these pop cultures together in a unique program of Asian Holiday Music, running 24/7 from now through December 26th.

Songs like "Santa ga Machi ni Yattekuru" from Japan, "Jingle Bell Rock" sung in Korean, and an instrumental version of "White Christmas" played with traditional Chinese instruments, give the world of Christmas a whole new spin.

"The world is getting smaller everyday," says Rhys Ludlow, founder of Pop Goes Asia. "Most Americans tend to have a very Western view of the holiday season. The Asian Holiday Music program is a fun way of reminding us that 'Joy to the World' includes perhaps more places than we thought."

The Asian Holiday Music program can be heard on KPOP1 at www.PopGoesAsia.com.

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