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...those of you not up on your Korean, Hallyu??literally, the “Korean Wave”—describes South Korean pop culture’s super-fast rise in popularity in Asia and among Asians abroad. The panel discussion on Hallyu was scheduled to start at 4 p.m. last Friday, but people were rushing into the Starr Auditorium at the Kennedy School of Government 30 minutes earlier. Only a lucky few got front row seat for the event’s main attraction, Park Jin-Young (who goes by J.Y.P.), former Korean pop-star...
Academia and South Korean stardom intersected Friday when Harvard’s Korea Institute hosted a panel discussion on the effects and future of “Hallyu?? or the “Korean wave” of pop culture in East Asia. The panel offered cross-disciplinary perspectives on the Hallyu phenomenon. The standing room only event featured Korean song writer and music manager Jin-Young Park and actress and television personality Jung-Sook Park—both famous in their fields. Several members of the panel said the flood of movies, music, and television programs...
...historic relics from the country’s rich past,” and staying in a temple to learn about Zen Buddhism, Kim wrote. She added that students will also get to experience Korean popular culture. “Seoul is the birthplace of ‘Hallyu?? or the Korean Wave, which is a new alternative popular culture that has spread through Asia with great force in the 21st century,” she wrote. David McCann, Director of the Korean Institute and a professor of Korean Literature at Harvard, will be teaching a course titled...
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