Korean wave

Korean wave started about 90s. For example, the drama” 사랑이 뭐길래” really catch on in China and a dance group ”클론” also in Tiwan. Actually the word, Korean wave, was called initially by a media in china. It have a great effect on Chinese. Korean mass media also admire highly Korean wave about exporting our contents and culture. They also said” since many Korean entertainers who enter a abroad will earn much foreign currency, it is help to restore our economy. But they just watch good aspects, not bad aspects about Korean wave. I assure Korean wave exposed many problem following things: excessive economical bias, excessive government invovement and hidden natinalism.

To begin with, the most problem of Korean wave is that it is more treated as conomy purpose than as pure culture recently. While the public recognize Korean wave as popular culture, people who take lead in discussion of Korean wave, most companies, gorvernment, entertainments and scholars, are usually interest in economic value which was created by K-pops and dramas. So most entertainments tend to launch movies that just is interesting or even glorify violence and illegality as purpose of making money. Therefore, they have no interested in how increase mutual understanding between each cutures and how contribute to realize universal cutural value in huminity.

Another problem is that government invoved excessively in Korean wave. They tend to intervene entire fields of Korean wave as production, distribution and sales. Even political community have applied Korean wave because they aware Korean wave as having political value. Therefore, both of them have more interested in just selling products than develop quality and level of product. So there remain not policy of cutural promotion, but sales.

Finally, Korean wave have hidden nationalism. Most scholars who have interested in Korean wave insisted that Korean wave result from suprimacy of Koran culture and Korean culture is embark on a new chapter because Korean product is important as strategy. Even mass media baldly expressed This view. Futher more severe thing is that the public have received this nationalistic view without no filtering.

In conclusion, Korean wave should go in the right direction and discussion of Korean wave be establish on universal cultural in huminity. And Korean wave also shoud not be treated by minorities who is obsessed by economic interest.

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