‘Hallyu’ Exhibit at Asian Art Museum Celebrates Korean Pop Culture

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🗓️ 27 September 2024

⏱️ 57 minutes

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South Korea is living in the future. It has the fastest internet on the planet. Nearly 100% of its population owns a smartphone. And for the last decade it has become a center of global pop culture. The popularity of Korean drama, cinema, beauty and pop music has given Korea a soft power that has allowed it to emerge as a cultural and economic leader among Asian nations. A new exhibit at the Asian Art Museum “Hallyu! The Korean Wave” picks up on this theme, exploring all things K-culture. We’ll talk to its curator, experts, and you: are you a K-fan? Guests: Yoon-Jee Choi, assistant curator for Korean art, Asian Art Museum. Choi is overseeing the "Hallyu: The Korean Wave" exhibition. Todd Inoue, freelance music journalist Kyung Hyun Kim, professor and chair, East Asian Studies, UC Irvine; author, "Virtual Hallyu: Korean Cinema of the Global Age" and "Hegemonic Mimicry: Korean Popular Culture of the 21st Century" Chesca Rueda, co-founder and co-owner of Sarang Hello, a retail shop that focuses on K-pop Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:22.1	Perhaps it seems to you that K-pop and K-dramas burst onto the scene at some point in the last decade. And certainly for
1:28.4	younger generations of Americans, Korean pop culture is nearly ubiquitous. But of course, there's a deeper
1:34.3	and longer story to tell. And that's the core premise of a new exhibition at the Asian Art
1:40.2	Museum called Halu, the Korean Wave. It documents the social history of Korean culture's rise to global prominence.
1:47.9	How did this country of 50 million people become a leading exporter of entertainment?
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2:11.2	Depending on how tapped in you were to its rise, Korean cultural exports began to hit hard in the U.S. during the aughts or perhaps the 20
2:19.3	teens or even during the pandemic. But whenever you noticed, musical groups like BTS and
2:25.6	Black Pink, movies like Parasite and television shows like Squid Game and the stable of
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