The Korean Wave

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Korean Culture and Information Service, 2011. — 55 p. — (Contemporary Korea No.1).
ISBN: 978-89-7375-164-8.The term "Korean Wave" ("Hallyu" in Korean) was coined by the Chinese press a little more than a decade ago to refer to the popularity of Korean pop culture in China. The boom started with the export of Korean television dramas (miniseries) to China in the late 1990s. Since then, South Korea has emerged as a new center for the production of transnational pop culture, exporting a range of cultural products to neighboring Asian countries. More recently, Korean pop culture has begun spreading from its comfort zone in Asia to more global audiences in the Middle East, Africa, Europe and the Americas.Prologue
Birth of the Korean Wave
Birth of the Wave
The Beginning of the Wave in Japan
The Wave Goes Global
K-Pop Joins the Wave
The neo-Korean Wave
‘Korean Invasion?’
The New Wave
The Internet Connects the Wave Fast
The Fun of Copying
Distance No Longer a Barrier for K-Dramas
What’s Korean Pop Culture Got?
K-Pop: ‘Music of Fusion’
K-Dramas: ‘Healthy Power’
The Korean Wave in other Fields
Korean Films
Hallyu in Literature
Epilogue
Will It Continue?
Appendix
Further Reading