KTV parlour

English

量贩式KTV in Wuhan, Hubei, China

Noun

KTV parlour (plural KTV parlours)

1. (chiefly Asia) A karaoke bar.
   • 1998, Summary of World Broadcasts: Asia, Pacific:

     A Hong Kong newspaper reported on Wednesday that Lai Ming-yih, a vice manager of a Taiwan-owned shoe factory in Dongwan, Guangdong Province, was killed on Sunday by four men from Taiwan at a downtown KTV parlour as a result of a quarrel over a waitress serving there.

   • 2011, Jonathan Reuvid, Business Insights: China, →ISBN, page 247:

     What are entertainment limitations – is a round of golf or a night at the KTV parlour acceptable or not?

   • 2011, Unn Målfrid Rolandsen, Leisure and Power in Urban China, →ISBN:

     In the mid 1990s there were government campaigns against KTV parlours.

   • 2015 May 2, Sean Teehan, Khouth Sophak Chakrya, “Monks behaving badly”, in The Phnom Penh Post:

     However, the number of cases like the Kampong Cham monks arrested at a KTV parlour was “very few”.