The popularity of Korean culture in Hong Kong is to be immortalised in wax as seven of its celebrities and a whole new section will be added at Madame Tussauds in May.
In its most expensive expansion to date, Hong Kong's wax figure museum on the Peak will celebrate its 15th anniversary with a HK$50 million upgrade plus 12 new figures and a dedicated Korean pavilion called the K-Wave Zone.
Another pavilion with "strong Chinese cultural themes" will open in June, according to the wax museum's general manager Kelly Mak Yuen-han.
"We base our decisions on surveys and comments collected from our customers," said Mak. "We've seen a 10 per cent increase in north Asian visitors - mainly Korean and Taiwanese tourists."
Around 80 to 90 per cent of visitors to Madame Tussauds Hong Kong are from Asia, with 40 to 60 per cent of them mainland Chinese.
Mak said the total number of visitors added up to more than 12 million since the museum opened in 2000.