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How technology is altering citizen protests

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How technology is altering citizen protests

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Why Human Writing Is Worth Defending In the Age of ChatGPT ‹ Literary Hub-복사

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시사영강독 황경태 발표

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1. What could be the limits of the digital globalization?

2. What problems "digital divide" might cause for the world?

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[시사영강독1] 포트폴리오1 서민지

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Why South Korean culture is a global hit

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Baby Shark song not plagiarised - South Korean top court.

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Baby Shark song not plagiarised - South Korean top court.

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Globalization and the Gaming Industry - HeadStuff

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With globalization increasing at a pace we’ve never seen before Frankie Wallace looks at how it is and will effect the gaming industry.

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History of shipping containers

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LG fell victim to a presidential push out of chips. Now it's back with Jim Keller on AI.

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LG fell victim to a presidential push out of chips. Now it's back with Jim Keller on AI.

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https://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/news/2025-09-16/business/tech/LG-fell-victim-to-a-presidential-push-out-of-chips-Now-its-back-with-Jim-Keller-on-AI/2397960

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LG fell victim to a presidential push out of chips. Now it’s back with Jim Keller on AI.

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Once a player in the semiconductor sector before being pushed out in a national shakeup, LG is back with a vengeance — the tell a photo with industry giant Jim Keller — as it discovered in-house manufacturing is both sensible and an opportunity.

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How Europe is vying for rare earth independence from China

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The EU is aiming to increase its own production of rare earth metals, led by a facility in France.

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Globalization must be inclusive, not extractive. Multinationals can lead by example

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While globalization has driven global trade, its imbalances threaten its future legitimacy. Multinational corporations can help redress this with localization strategies

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Globalization must be inclusive, not extractive. Multinationals can lead by example

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While globalization has driven global trade, its imbalances threaten its future legitimacy. Multinational corporations can help redress this with localization strategies

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https://edition.cnn.com/style/article/pokemon-design-25

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Pokémon at 25: How 151 fictional species took over the world | CNN

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A quarter of a century after the first Pokémon Game Boy title, the franchise’s characters still capture imaginations around the world. Here’s why.

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How South Korea Became a Cultural Powerhouse, and What's Next

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How South Korea Became a Cultural Powerhouse, and What's Next

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How South Korea Became a Cultural Powerhouse, and What’s Next

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With BTS poised to reunite, “Squid Game” returning and a Broadway show winning awards, the Korean cultural wave keeps on rolling.

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Stellar Blade's runaway success on PC proves South Korea is positioning itself to become a major force in global gaming, and experts agree

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Stellar Blade's runaway success on PC proves South Korea is positioning itself to become a major force in global gaming, and experts agree

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How Globalization Has Transformed the Music Industry

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Music doesn’t need a passport. It travels freely across borders, cultures, and languages—connecting people in ways few things can. Thanks to globalization, the way music is created, shared, and consumed has changed drastically. What was once regionally bound is now just a click away. Globalization…

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How South Korea Became a Cultural Powerhouse, and What’s Next

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With BTS poised to reunite, “Squid Game” returning and a Broadway show winning awards, the Korean cultural wave keeps on rolling.

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How South Korea Became a Cultural Powerhouse, and What’s Next

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With BTS poised to reunite, “Squid Game” returning and a Broadway show winning awards, the Korean cultural wave keeps on rolling.

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The Potential Impact of Globalization on Video Game Development

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The industry for video game creation has changed dramatically in recent years, primarily due to the effects of globalization. Video games…

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Webtoons: South Korea’s Billion-Dollar Cultural Export

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Pallavi Kumari The author is a Post-graduate Student at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. This article was an outcome of the ’Korea Centre Summer Internship Programme-2024′. Abstr…

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The Globalization of Professional Basketball: Context and Competition Matters in the NBA, WNBA, and Olympics

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Authors: Howard Bartee, Jr., Ed.D.1 1School of Public and Allied Health, Division of Kinesiology and Physical Education, Prairie View A & M University, Prairie View, TX, USA Corresponding Author: Corresponding Author:Howard Bartee, Jr., Ed.D.Prairie View A & M University700 University DrivePrairie View, TX 77446hobartee@pvamu.edu770-314-4415

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The Globalization of Professional Basketball: Context and Competition Matters in the NBA, WNBA, and Olympics

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Authors: Howard Bartee, Jr., Ed.D.1 1School of Public and Allied Health, Division of Kinesiology and Physical Education, Prairie View A & M University, Prairie View, TX, USA Corresponding Author: Corresponding Author:Howard Bartee, Jr., Ed.D.Prairie View A & M University700 University DrivePrairie View, TX 77446hobartee@pvamu.edu770-314-4415

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Samyang Foods Rises to the Top: Named Gen Alpha’s Favorite Brand in the U.S.

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/PRNewswire/ -- Samyang Foods America, the U.S. subsidiary of the global food brand Samyang Foods, has been recognized as the #1 Top Brand Among Generation…

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SAP BrandVoice: Ecommerce: Electronic Commerce Definition, Benefits, Types, Examples

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Ecommerce, also known as electronic commerce, is the buying and selling of goods and services via the internet, and the transfer of money and data to complete the sales.

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Why do you recommend going to Korea? Foreigners who ignored KBO have c

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When we first contacted Eric Pedi (31, St. Louis Cardinals), he was angry, saying, ’Why would you recommend me to go to Korea when I’m not old enough yet?

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The Globalization of Professional Basketball: Context and Competition Matters in the NBA, WNBA, and Olympics

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The Globalization of Professional Basketball: Context and Competition Matters in the NBA, WNBA, and Olympics

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Authors: Howard Bartee, Jr., Ed.D.1 1School of Public and Allied Health, Division of Kinesiology and Physical Education, Prairie View A & M University, Prairie View, TX, USA Corresponding Author: Corresponding Author:Howard Bartee, Jr., Ed.D.Prairie View A & M University700 University DrivePrairie View, TX 77446hobartee@pvamu.edu770-314-4415

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K-Culture Is Booming—But Globalization Only Applies to K-pop and Games

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K-Culture Is Booming—But Globalization Only Applies to K-pop and Games

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K-Culture Is Booming—But Globalization Only Applies to K-pop and Games

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South Korea’s content industry recorded annual revenue of 156 trillion won in 2024 amid growing global attention to K-Culture. However, the growth was largely

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Why South Korean culture is a global hit

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Why South Korean culture is a global hit – DW – 10/11/2024

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Already popular through K-pop, the TV series “Squid Game” and the Oscar success “Parasite,” South Korean culture is once again in the spotlight with Han Kang’s Nobel Prize win. But how did the K-wave start?

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E-Commerce and Shopping: Revolutionizing the Retail Industry

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Discover how e-commerce and shopping have transformed the retail industry, offering convenience, variety, and driving digital innovation.

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Korean dining chains sweep across US, boon for K-sauce - KED Global

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Korean dining chains are springing up across the US, fueled by health-conscious eating trends and the surging influence of Korean pop culture, boosting expecta

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Korean dining chains sweep across US, boon for K-sauce - KED Global

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Korean dining chains are springing up across the US, fueled by health-conscious eating trends and the surging influence of Korean pop culture, boosting expecta

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Korean dining chains sweep across US, boon for K-sauce - KED Global

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Korean dining chains are springing up across the US, fueled by health-conscious eating trends and the surging influence of Korean pop culture, boosting expecta

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Korean dining chains sweep across US, boon for K-sauce - KED Global

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Korean dining chains are springing up across the US, fueled by health-conscious eating trends and the surging influence of Korean pop culture, boosting expecta

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From K-pop to kimchi: How Korean cuisine is conquering the world - The Korea Times

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Korean cuisine and food culture, known as “hansik” in Korean, is gaining global popularity. This surge is driven by frequent exposure in TV series,…

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The Globalization of Professional Basketball: Context and Competition Matters in the NBA, WNBA, and Olympics

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Authors: Howard Bartee, Jr., Ed.D.1 1School of Public and Allied Health, Division of Kinesiology and Physical Education, Prairie View A & M University, Prairie View, TX, USA Corresponding Author: Corresponding Author:Howard Bartee, Jr., Ed.D.Prairie View A & M University700 University DrivePrairie View, TX 77446hobartee@pvamu.edu770-314-4415

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North Korea executing more people for watching foreign films and TV, UN finds

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North Korea executing more people for watching foreign films and TV, UN finds

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North Korea executing more people for watching foreign films and TV, UN finds

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The report is based on more than 300 interviews with escapees from Kim Jong Un’s secretive regime.

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Baby Shark song not plagiarised - South Korean top court

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South Korea's Supreme Court has rejected a US composer's allegation that the producers of the inescapably catchy children's song Baby Shark plagiarised his work, ending a six-year-long legal battle.

The court upheld two lower court verdicts that favoured Pinkfong, the South Korean company behind the tune with the "doo doo doo doo doo doo" refrain that has been streamed billions of times.

Jonathan Wright recorded a version of the tune in 2011 based on a children's folk song. Pinkfong's version was released in 2016.

Wright said he owned the copyright to the interpretation, but Pinkfong argued that its version was an arrangement of the same folk song, which is in the public domain.

The court ruled that Wright's version "had not reached a level of substantial alteration" from the original folk song for it to be considered a separate work, which means it is not protected as a separate piece of work under copyright law.

Pinkfong's Baby Shark went wildly viral after it was released on YouTube, in a clip that included hand gestures for children to dance along with.

It became the most-viewed YouTube video of all time in November 2020, at the height of the pandemic, after raking up seven billion views. Just over a year later, it became the first YouTube video to reach 10 billion views.

Baby Shark is thought to have originated in the US in the 1970s and popularised at summer camps. One theory says it was invented in 1975, as Steven Spielberg's Jaws became an box office smash around the world.

The premise hasn't always been as cheery as Pinkfong's interpretation. In one version, a surfer loses an arm to a shark, and in another, the protaganist dies.

Wright, who goes by the stage name Johnny Only, created his sanitised version in 2011. The YouTube video, titled "Baby Shark Song (non-dismemberment version)", features him and a group of children and teenagers dancing to the song by a pool.

Wright said he initially thought, that since the song was in the public domain, "[Pinkfong] could go right ahead and use it".

The idea of a copyright suit arose when he realised that Pinkfong had threatened legal action when a South Korean political party - the current opposition People Power Party - used Baby Shark in a political campaign.

"The wheels in my head start turning... Doesn't that mean that my version also has copyright protection?" Wright told the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in 2019.

There are also international adaptations of Baby Shark before Pinkfong's interpretation, including the French Bebe Requin and the German Kleiner Hai (Little Shark), which became a viral hit in Europe in 2007.

But none of these have reached the phenomenal success of Pinkfong's adaptation.

Since then, popular acts from Blackpink to Josh Groban have incorporated their version of the song into their performances; it has been translated into more than 100 languages and even been made into a movie.

"We call it K-Pop for the next generation," Pinkfong's marketing director Jamie Oh told the BBC in 2018.

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Baby Shark: South Korean denies plagiarism claim by US composer

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The court rejected a US composer's copyright claim to the inescapable children's song.

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South Korea is going wild for ‘KPop Demon Hunters,’ made in the U.S.

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South Korea is going wild for ‘KPop Demon Hunters,’ made in the U.S.

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South Korea is going wild for ‘KPop Demon Hunters,’ made in the U.S.

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South Korea gave the world BTS and “Gangnam Style,” “Parasite” and snail mucus face cream. The U.S. sent back “KPop Demon Hunters” — and South Koreans love it.

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Is Globalization Actually Declining, Or Are We Witnessing The Emergence Of Neo-Globalization Through Digital Technology? – OpEd

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Is Globalization Actually Declining, Or Are We Witnessing The Emergence Of Neo-Globalization Through Digital Technology? – OpEd

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While the world leaders are busy securing their borders and imposing tariffs on each other, the world is getting more connected through fiber optic cables that run down the ocean floor. There is a growing debate among academicians about whether globalization is actually declining because of Brexit, trade wars, or the worldwide wave of nationalism…

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TikTok and the Retreat from Technological Globalization

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Global technology companies are becoming table stakes in the struggle to establish whatever new world order is emerging.

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As a Korean American, it's crazy to see how Korean pop culture has exploded in popularity in the U.S. in recent years. Today, it's not uncommon to see Korean content and stars grabbing headlines in Western media, whether it's "Squid Game" being greenlit for a second season or K-pop superstars BTS releasing their latest album "Proof" to commemorate the group's ninth anniversary.

But with global demand for Korean pop culture at an all-time high, it feels like South Korea is kind of losing control over its cultural narrative.

This dichotomy between "K-culture" and "Korean culture" is probably being further reinforced by mainstream English-language news outlets

Just a decade ago, I was fruitlessly seeking opportunities to write about K-pop; today, I'm frequently turning down requests from various editors and publicists asking me to write an article about a new K-pop idol group - that is, photogenic boy or girl bands that perform the kind of dance music that many of us have now come to associate with K-pop. I never thought I'd see the day when I'd actually get tired of people asking me to write about the topic, but it seems that just when much of the Korean public and the Korean diaspora have moved on from K-pop due to the surfeit of idol groups (about 200 to 400 of them have debuted in the past decade, and over 50 are debuting in this year alone), the rest of the world is clamoring for it.

As I've written before, the type of Korean cultural content that's popular in South Korea - whether that's music, films or TV shows - often tends to be very different from the kind that's popular abroad. Until "Parasite" came along, Korean films that were a hit with many international audiences were box-office flops in South Korea, and vice versa.

K-pop is probably the best example of this puzzling paradox. "It seems like anytime someone writes something about K-Pop - particularly pieces on boy and girl bands - it doesn't really matter who authored the articles, it's pretty much a guaranteed way to generate massive clicks," Bernie Cho, a music industry veteran and president and founder of DFSB Kollective, an agency that works with hundreds of independent Korean music acts, explained to me. "But unfortunately, what sort of happens as a result of this type of clickbait journalism is that you get a very skewed and myopic lens on the Korean music industry landscape. If you only believed what you read online, it would be easy to assume that every Korean music artist was a boy band or girl band."

Cho noted that a 2020 Korea Creative Content Agency survey of music listeners in South Korea found that ballad is the most widely enjoyed genre in the country, polling in at a whopping 76.5 percent. "The irony is that if you scan the year-end music charts in Korea, the most streamed artists are actually not boy bands or girl bands," said Cho. Case in point: Last year, K-pop solo artist IU took the top spot on Korea's streaming charts, while the two most downloaded songs in Korea both went to trot and ballad singer Lim Young-woong.

And yet, because of the ever-growing global popularity of K-pop girl and boy bands - largely thanks to their vast international fan bases - it's the kind of music that gets heavily marketed outside of Korea. Even the way we've come to define "K-pop" - as music dominated by idol groups with flashy outfits and slick choreography - has been influenced by the narratives pushed by international (especially Western) media outlets and fans.

However, Cho argues that the definition of K-pop should be broader to encompass any kind of Korean music that happens to be popular in Korea. He points out that in South Korea, all Korean artists are lumped together into one consolidated "K-pop" chart, which includes a diverse array of genres from hip-hop to R&B to ballads and rock. He compared it to the U.S. pop charts, where artists from a wide range of genres make up the Top 10 and Top 20 spots. "They're pop artists because they're popular - it's less about the style and more about the statistics," he said.

Though Cho's answer is technically correct, it seems the predominance of idol music in K-pop's global reach has impacted the way that even Koreans themselves think about K-pop. When I ask my Korean friends and acquaintances about K-pop, almost all of them now seem to equate it with idol groups, and virtually none of them listen to it (except for the few who have to because it's directly related to their jobs). In fact, most Koreans I know have told me they listen to Korean indie and folk rock, trot, ballads and/or music by non-Korean artists.

The growing popularity of Korean TV shows have proven to also reveal this disconnect. Recent South Korean favorites like " Hometown Cha Cha Cha" and " Twenty Five Twenty One" - both available on Netflix - also did well internationally, but in the U.S. they were nowhere near as popular as Netflix's original thrillers like " Squid Game," " All of Us Are Dead" and " Hellbound." Currently, the slice-of-life K-dramas " Our Blues" and " My Liberation Notes" are the top two shows on Netflix in South Korea and are both sitting in Netflix's Global Top 10 list of non-English series, but neither has cracked Netflix's U.S. Top 10.

To help explain the divergence in Korean pop culture preferences between South Korean and international (especially Western) audiences, I spoke to David Tizzard, a professor at Seoul Women's University who hosts the " Korea Deconstructed" podcast and regularly contributes to The Korea Times. He has a theory that makes a distinction between what he calls "K-culture" and "Korean culture." "K-culture - anything with a 'K '- is primarily designed for export. It's not designed for the domestic market; it's designed with the taste of international people in mind," he said. K-pop idol groups would probably be the quintessential example of this. "Squid Game," which targeted the global market from the get-go, is another great example.

In contrast, content that reflects "Korean culture," according to Tizzard, is designed primarily for Korean audiences. Korean historical dramas and variety shows would probably fall in this category. Many of them are hugely popular with domestic audiences, and although some (such as the historical romance " The King's Affection ") do well in other countries, they're rarely expected to chart globally, since usually their primary aim is to inform and entertain Korean viewers.

Moreover, this dichotomy between "K-culture" and "Korean culture" is probably being further reinforced by mainstream English-language news outlets, which tend to overemphasize certain K-pop idol acts over other kinds of Korean artists and show a predilection for covering only certain types of K-dramas.

All that said, sometimes I wonder if I'm the one who's selfishly and needlessly attempting to impose a narrow view of how Korean culture should be understood and interpreted. Pop culture is meant to be enjoyed and shared by everyone according to their own tastes. Perhaps that's partly why Korean pop culture in particular has taken off across the globe - its elements are so diverse that there's bound to be something for everyone.

So if K-pop stans are crushing on and promoting the heck out of their favorite idols on Twitter and YouTube - so much so that media outlets are forced to pay attention - well, who am I to rain on their parade? And if Americans tend to enjoy violent K-dramas while most Koreans prefer more low key and family-friendly ones, like "Twenty Five Twenty One" or "Our Blues," who am I to say who's right and who's wrong? In the end, I'd still much rather see people associate my motherland with idol K-pop and gory K-dramas than with, say, a certain dictator. Maybe those of us of Korean descent, who are observing this ever-expanding Korean Wave with a mixture of pride and bewildered amusement, should just learn to let go and enjoy the ride.

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Opinion | How K-pop and 'Squid Game' may be misleading the West about Korean culture

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From Netflix's "Squid Game" to BTS, Korean content and stars are grabbing headlines in Western media, but they don't always reflect the tastes of their home country.