Karaoke Box is a variant of karaoke that is popular in East Asia. It features a small to medium-sized private room containing karaoke equipment for a group of friends to rent in timed increments. A monitor in the room displays lyrics atop a themed music video. The music videos are often not the official videos, but are videos made especially for karaoke establishments. A typical Karaoke Box establishment contains 10-20 such rooms as well as a main "karaoke bar" area in the front. Karaoke Box centers can scale to hundreds of rooms and can be extremely opulent. Karaoke Box establishments often sell refreshments.

In Taiwan and mainland China, Karaoke Box establishments are often known as KTV, and are a popular form of extertainment. Very successful KTV chains in Taiwan include Holiday KTV and Cashbox KTV. "KTV" is an abbreviation for karaoke television, derived as a reference to "MTV."

The name varies across countries:

KTV in China, Korea and Taiwan.
Videoke in the Philippines.
Karaoke Box in Hong Kong and Japan.
Noraebang (노래방) in South Korea. "Noraebang" literally means "song (norae) room (bang)".
It is also common to simply abbreviate it as "K", often when used as a verb, such as in usages like "去K歌 (To go "K" songs)" or "去唱K (To go sing "K")" especially in Hong Kong.

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