Claim: Red Velvet (band) is a pop group from South Korea.
Evidence: Red Velvet -LRB- Hangul : 레드벨벳 -RRB- is a South Korean girl group formed by S.M. Entertainment.
The term `` girl group '' is also used in a narrower sense in the United States to denote the wave of American female pop music singing groups , many of whom were influenced by doo-wop , and which flourished in the late 1950s and early 1960s between the decline of early rock and roll and start of the British Invasion.
S.M. Entertainment is a South Korean entertainment company established in 1995 by Lee Soo-man.