29 March 2007
Hallyu
March’s edition of Seoul magazine has an interesting article discussing how cultural waves do not travel in just one direction.
Supporters of Korean culture are keen to point out the unstoppability of the hallyu: Rain in the Philippines, BoA in Japan, Super Junior in China, TV Dramas everywhere (except the UK it seems). Back home, though, [...]
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13 February 2007
Hallyu
A brief round-up of recent hallyu and nationalism stories.
Rain’s producer, Park Jin-young, says the word “Korean” should be removed from “Korean Wave”.
“I don’t understand why the Korean wave is taken as the rah-rah material,” Mr. Park said. “Now is the time to overcome nationalism, but instead we are intensifying that sentiment.”
Park has a similar message [...]
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