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Facebook, Instagram and Twitter are all founded in the United States and are now being utilized on a global scale. Like the Koreans, the government agencies of the US also seek to use platforms such as Twitter and Facebook to disseminate useful information to its people. But while there are advantages to this, there is one obvious downside to the misuse of this function. An example would be Donald Trump, who frequently uses Twitter to announce insensitive opinions, slander  other politicians or to make false statements and claims without proper grounds or statistics to back them.
Mukbang
It originally started off in South Korea where people eat huge amounts of food to they talk to viewers. It then spread worldwide including US, making it a trend there especially among youtubers such as Nikocado Avocado and Wendy’s Eating Show. Twitch has even created a social eating channel to take advantage of the rise in mukbang.

In US, reasons watching mukbang differ from South Koreans as people view the videos to change their relationships with food such as arousing or curbing their appetite. There are viewers who have eating issues watching these mukbang stars to share their stories with them. Also, another difference is that these mukbang get a lot of criticisms in youtube comments due to viewers who disagree with their mukbang lifestyle.

There is also an increase in Vegan mukbang youtubers such as MommyTang who's known as the Queen of Vegan Mukbang that shares her life stories while promoting healthy eating to her viewers.

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Tattoo Culture:
The tattoo culture in Korea is still seen as conservative. While it is evolving to become more widely accepted, tattoos in the media are still being censored as they are still not allowed in broadcast.
Fashion:
The street wear in Korea is seen to be inspired by the US hip hop culture. Factors influencing the changes in South Korean fashion are cross-cultural experiences with other countries, wealth and social media.
While the general populace are seen to be conservative, many K-pop stars emulating the American Pop divas have begun to dress up in a more revealing and bold manner, influencing the way normal people dress. Plastic Surgery
In Korea, it has become a norm among the citizens to get plastic surgery to become more attractive and more, that it has turn into almost an obsession.There are some Kpop stars that admitted they had plastic surgery such as Jessie and Infinity's Challenge, Kwanghee. There is a girl group called Sixbomb who even made a music video that shared about their plastic surgeries instead of hiding it. Since the majority of Koreans embracing plastic surgery, it has become the plastic surgery capital of the world.

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Tattoo Culture:
The tattoo culture in the States are more open and have always been as tattoo shops are always out in the open, offering their services to the public unlike that of Korea and Japan, which are forced to operate underground at some point in time. They also have TV shows related to tattooing such as Miami Ink and Ink Master.

Fashion:
The American style streetwear originates from the Californian surf and skate culture. Over time, this style encompasses a mix of other elements such as basketball and hip hop. Such styles were donned by rap stars such as Eminem, Jay-Z and 50 Cent, which in turn influenced the styles of many other countries through their exposure in the mainstream media.

Plastic Surgery

Americans have different beauty standards compared to Koreans as they focused more on liposuction, and breast implants. Since Korea has many plastic surgery companies, there are many Americans who opt to go to Korea to get their plastic surgery done because of the more natural look.

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Kakao is a Korean homegrown social media platform launched in 2010. Many functions were seen to be inspired by pre-existing social media platforms such as Instagram and Facebook, only that they were being incorporated into a single entity. This, together with Kakao's own local content had helped to hold dominance in its own domestic market, with it being more widely used than Facebook itself.With that being said, most Koreans also utilize popular social media platforms such as Twitter and Facebook. The government agencies in Korea utilizes several of these platforms to notify government policies and to collect opinionated data of the people (survey tool).

Mukbang Mukbang has been a popular online social activity among the Koreans. It made up of two words which are “muk-ja” that means “eat” in Korean and “bang-song” which means “broadcast”.  It first kicked off in the online Korean live streaming platform, AfreecaTV but the BJ, broadcast jockeys that eat huge amounts of food to viewers have since moved to other platforms like Youtube and Twitch.  It was started when reality TV programs became prominent  with the show “Tasty Road” that is about hosts travelling all over the country to find tasty food from both East and west that aired with its first episode on Oct 10, 2010. It has become a big hit with Koreans as culture of eating together like a family is enjoyable to now a booming increase in single-person households. Some of the broadcasters has made it as their living income.

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Movies:
While Hollywood films are world-renowned, statistics actually show that Korean filmmakers had actually managed to surpass some of Hollywood's box office hits. An example would be the Korean romance comedy My Sassy Girl, which outsold The Lord of The Rings and Harry Potter.Thriller movies
The Man from Nowhere came out in USA on Oct 1, 2010. John Wick was released in USA on Oct 13, 2014. In a Reddit AMA (Online crowd interview), directors of John Wick and John Wick: Chapter 2, Chad Stahelski and David Leitch said that ‘The Vengeance Trilogy’ and ‘The Man from Nowhere’ was a inspiration for its “minimalist composition and graphic nature”.

Park also influenced other American directors who are fans of his works such as Quentin Tarantino, who compared Park Chan-wook ability to direct a thriller to that of Michelangelo ability to paint a masterpiece. Spike Lee another american director also highly respected Park’s film “Oldboy” so much that he directed the American adaptation in 2003. Unfortunately, it didn’t gain much positive response from the moviegoers.

Thus Park made his first English debut movie in America with the movie titled, "Stoker." In the movie, he worked with Philip Glass, an American Oscar-nominated avant-garde composer who created “Einstein on the Beach’ and “The Hours” and Emily Wells, an   American multi-instrumentalist for the music and score.

Kim Jee-Woon's  thriller film "A Tale of Two sisters” was deemed a huge success that there was an American adaptation called “The Uninvited” directed by The Guard brothers. It received mixed reviews compared to the Korean version. Kim Jee-Woon went to make his first American debut film, “The Last Stand”(2013) that starred Arnold Schwarzenegger, who chose to make a comeback in Kim's film even though he was given a chance in another film directed by James Cameron. Kim Jee-woon is planning on switching his film genre with his upcoming American film "Coward" based on Ed Brubaker's criminal graphic novel series.

Music:
It can be seen that while many musical influences from America were drawn to Korea, there are instances whereby the Americans themselves are supportive of the Koreans' music. An example would be PSY's Gangnam Style, which actually broke the Youtube record of 1 billion views. The music was for the most part sang in Korean, but it still garnered a large global viewing. This shows that genres of music, with the help of the internet, can actually cross into other cultures.

With that being said, further research still shows that K-pop is mainly a mixture of several different genres of popular Western music. K-pop hits now possess the above mentioned elements, from electro-pop to R&B to piano ballads to hip-hop to soul music, but pulled off in their own style and blended in a way such that it is uniquely theirs.

An example would be Brown Eyed Girls.
WHAT IS BROWN EYED GIRLS??
Racing, cinematic violins and cellos
+ | Regal trumpets
+ | A pulsing beat
+ | Actual kitten-like “meows”
+ | Mariah Carey-esque belts and whistle notes on the bridge
x | 4 fearless femme fatales with crazy vocal skills
= | “Sixth Sense” by Brown Eyed GirlsBTS One of Kpop famous bands will be BTS that is making their mark gradually in the American Music industry as they even got to the   top 10 on the all-genre Billboard 200 chart with their new EP Love Yourself: Her. They are the first Kpop band to ever do that in the history. They also had the opportunity to perform at the American Music Awards 2017, getting everyone a whole lot excited including the audience and stars such as Ansel Elgort and Demi Lovato.

Gaming:
An interesting topic found in the online forums was on the origins of the widely popular MMORPG, Guild Wars 2. Guild Wars 2 is a game ran by Arenanet, which is the US division of NCsoft, a Korean gaming company. Many people were debating on whether it is a Korean or an American game.

My own research showed that the game was indeed mostly created by Arenanet, but was published by NCsoft. While Arenanet had made the game, the creation revolved around the ideals of NCsoft's own Korean MMORPGs, like Aion. The only difference would be that players are encouraged to level up through exploration and other acts instead of the infamous grinding of most Korean MMOs. Hence from here, we can actually see that this game is actually made such that they are trying to meet half way, with the game being able to cater to both the eastern and western audiences.  Overwatch
Overwatch is a team-based multiplayer online first-person shooter video game developed and published by Blizzard Entertainment, a premier developer and publisher of entertainment software that was started by Allen Adham, Frank Pearce and Mike Morhaime, three American UCLA (University of California, Los Angeles) graduates. Blizzard organized an eSports tournament which was The Overwatch World Cup 2017 with South Korea team coming up as the champion. It was their second World cup win in a row. In the recent Overwatch league 2018, South Korea created a team called Seoul Dynasty winning most of their matches until they were given their first loss by New York Excelsior another team that has South Korean players. Three full Korean teams (Seoul Dynasty, New York Excelsior and London Spitfire) are at the top three currently showing their dominance in the league.

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Movies:
Instead of the other way round, there are actually instances of many films in Korea which had influenced and inspired that of the US film makers such that they had created similar renditions to said films. Examples would be Old Boy which the US did a remake on, and The Man From Nowhere (2010) and John Wick (2014) shared similar themes and genre, Crime Film/Thriller.  The Man from Nowhere is written and directed by Lee Jeong-beom in Aug 4, 2010.  It garnered a huge success in South Korea and also globally.
KOREA ONLY:1,863,328 ticket sales

WORLD WIDE: 6,282,774 ticket sales

Park Chan-Wook is one of South Korea’s most globally known film director. His most renowned work, the “Vengeance Trilogy” with its most acclaimed piece “Oldboy”, led him to worldwide recognition and pushed the South Korean film scene onto the world stage.

Oldboy’s cultural origins serve as another focal point of this essay, since globalization in the age of transnationalism do not prevent non-American films from reaching a global audience.

This dichotomy that the audience was faced with in regards to the actions and moral compass of the protagonist vaulted the movie above mere popcorn flick into the realm of legends. These complex feelings allowed Oldboy to resonate with people around the world, sending it to be forever remembered as a great film.
Heightened feelings of nervousness and unease in Korea,  born of the apprehension of a transition of the government at the time, helped cement the overall impact of such thriller films and helped them resonate better with their audiences. Kim Jee-woon is a South Korean film director and screenwriter. The Korean thriller movie, “I Saw the Devil” that was directed by him was Influenced by David Fincher’s “Zodiac” as he was interested in crime thrillers and focused on dark desires and passions. He tried to emulate the look of “Zodiac” by using softened hues, contrast and using dull dark colours in his films to create the eerie atmosphere.

Music:
Further research shows that through the exposure of American pop music, several popular artists that emerged in Korea actually diverges from the traditional K-pop sound. Examples of such artists are Lee Jung Hyun, a female techno artist and several hiphop artists like Drunken Tiger and Epik High.
Rock music is also starting to break into the mainstream in Korea with the emergence of YB, which gained national recognition.
Gaming:
On the PC platform for gaming, Starcraft, an RTS game made by Blizzard, is seen to be the most popular game in Korea despite Korea having its own very popular MMORPGs.

But on the mobile platform, Korea is still dominating the market as it can be seen that most of their games are found on the top of the list on Google Play Store. An example would be Lineage 2 Revolution.

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1.  Are there any other social media platforms from Korea besides Kakao that dominated Korea? -Misa
2. Can you elaborate USA's impact on the tattoo culture in Korea? - Naninda
3. When and why did the hip hop culture start becoming popular in Korea? - Naninda
4. How did the USA influence the Korea movies (if any)? -Misa
5. Why does Koreans have the norm to have plastic surgery? Is there a reason behind it? - Misa
6. In which country did plastic surgery become popular/normalized first? - Naninda

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1. What is the art style/art movement for tattoos?

2. What kind of art training does a tattoo artist go?

3. What is the common theme for popular Korean online games?

4. Why are games so addictive?

5. Do you think USA tattoo culture impacted Korea in a positive or negative way?

6. Did USA helped Korea to be a more "open" country? Or did laws tightened in Korea?

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STAR WARS : Shahnabil (F16DM0146) & Owen (Absent)

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STAR WARS : Shahnabil (F16DM0146) & Owen (Absent)

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Question 1 : How did the Korean became so well versed with their plastic surgeries skills?
Question 2 : What are the risks of having tattoos? How has tattoo impacted the lives of the people especially the younger generation?
Question 3 : Why is Kakao not well known to the world?
Question 4 : Is the twitter admin allowed to ban Trump?
Question 5 : How has gaming influenced the younger generations. Is there a future for hardcore gamers?
Question 6 : Why is the Korean shows not as well known to the world when it has exceeded the hollywood blockbuster films?
Question 7 : RVF ah behind ?

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1. Why is tattoos conservative in Korea?
2. Did US influence Korea to start plastic surgery services?
3. Did US social media sites inspire Korea to make Kakao?
4. Was Korea influenced by US to make K-pop?

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1.Are Korean films culturally making an impact on USA Audience as much as USA does on Koreans.
2.Are western Social Media prominent in Korea?
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Questions from Brother Bear (Felicia & Vania)

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Questions from Brother Bear (Felicia & Vania)

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1. Do USA have their own version of "mukbang"? or anything related to it?
2. Do you think the tattoo culture will be accepted widely in the future? for both countries
3. Is there any reason why the Korean social media "Kakao Talk" have such a great impact to Koreans?

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1. Do you think its a healthy norm for the koreans to adapt to the surgery life? - Asmira

2. Do you think Korea will one day come around to fully accept the tattoo lifestyle? - Janice

3. Why do you think that the koreans are crazy about plastic surgeries? - ASmira

4. Do you think Korea stands a chance to fight against Hollywood's movies? - Janice

5. Do you think that Koreans can actually survive off creating their own apps without referencing any western's work? -Janice

6. Do you think that a lot of korean movies are actually airing in the USA?

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1. How has gaming influenced the younger generations. Is there a future for hardcore gamers?
2.  Why does Koreans have the norm to have plastic surgery? Is there a reason behind it?
3. Did USA helped Korea to be a more "open" country? Or did laws tightened in Korea?
4. Why is tattoos conservative in Korea?

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Guardians of the Galaxy （XinYi and ZiLin）

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Guardians of the Galaxy （XinYi and ZiLin）

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1.Could you give more details about how American music effects Korean music?
2.Is there any reason that Koreans are quite good at gaming?Cuz I know that besides overwatch, Koreans also keep winning in other games competitions.
3.What are the differences between Korean and American tattoo culture?Do Koreans have their own tattoo style like Japanese?
4.Do you agree that Koreans can develop their movie skills and survive in Hollywood?And which parts can they still improve?
5.How do plastic surgeries become so popular in Korea recently?And why does the aesthetic in Korean become so unified?
6.What do you mean by Americans go to Korea to do plastic surgeries for a more natural look?Why can western people get more satisfied to make plastic surgeries in Asian country?I think you can explain more about that part

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Fashion: Fashion Stores
There are several American fashion brands that have made their impact in Korea. Such as an example will be Calvin Klein, an American fashion brand that has become popular and accepted amidst the fashion in Korea. This was seen with the various street style looks during Korea Fashion Week.
Accessories that were used were such as from CK Calvin Klein Spring 2017 series, featuring Hyperfloral and classic engineered causal backpack for men and enveloped micro bucket bag in shades of spring colors and engineered micro goat leather backpack with studs for women.

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Korean Rapper Keith Ape is wearing sunglasses from Calvin Klein Jeans in the Fall 2016 global campaign.

There is even Calvin Klein online store in Korean. http://www.calvinklein.com/kr/

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Beauty: Skincare
There are many Korean beauty shops at Bugis Junction. Many Korean beauty brands are getting well-liked internationally such as TonyMoly with their cute packaging. After much research on how TonyMoly fare in Korea, it is not as popular as it is overseas due to its dorky packaging and considered as the low-end drugstore brand. Still, it is a hit towards the younger generation and gained recognition in the US.

The Koreans are known for investing a lot for keeping their facial skin youthful and supple with good skincare. They will ensure they spend much time and money to have a good complexion. For that reason, they came up with the 10 steps Korean skincare routine  to cleanse and moisturize the skin with great care.

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Fashion: Fashion Stores
A popular brand that is called Gentle Monster has made a big hit in USA with its unique aesthetic for eye wear with big celebrities both in US and Korea donning their different glasses. It has set up two shops in Los Angeles and New York, Soho. American stars such as Ashley Benson, Kourtney Kardashian and Ashley Tisdale wearing Gentle Monster sunglasses.

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Beauty: Skincare
Korean beauty brands has taken their place in US also. TonyMoly’s “I’m Real” masks  are one of the favourites now as it is convenient and soothing to be used the face. They are also affordable and have a fun concept that appeal many Americans. Tony Moly has set up a shop at New York City and Manhattan. New York CityManhattan

The popularity of the Korean skincare routine of 10 steps to a flawless skin has also caught up to the Americans. They also want to achieve that "glass" skin most Koreans have. There are those that tried and got good results with their skin looking better. Though, they simplified the steps to their own liking.

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There are Korean artists who had set up art exhibitions in Singapore also exhibited in USA such as Osang Gwon. His exhibition titled as "Deodarant Type" was assembled at Doosan Gallery, New York on 2010. This sculpture is named "Jangular"
done in c-print using mixed media.

Another Korean artist, Choe U-Ram who had a solo exhibition called "New Urban Species" at the Frist Center for the Visual Arts at Nashville, USA from February 19 until May 16, 2010. This artwork is called Urbanus Female Larva.

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After noticing this wall mural at Singapore's Bras Basah complex that looked like it was inspired by Keith Haring, we decided to look into popular American Artists who have also made their mark in Korea.There are a number of American artists who have held art exhibitions in Korea such as Keith Haring, a popular graffiti pop artist who first started at subway stations then later, exhibited at museums to showcase his art.

He was joined by other known US pop artists such as Robert Rauschenberg, Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol and Robert Indiana   The exhibition was called, "Hi, POP- Art in the streets" that was held at the M Contemporary Art Center in Gangnam-gu, Seoul.Keith Haring's works on display. The gallery was changed to look like New York subway station where he first started his art.
The exhibition was held to spread the love for pop art to a wider public.

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Religion is widespread and extensive in modern society.

Almost all religions can be found in every part of the world due to globalization and cross-cultural exchange.

Observed that changes in the design aspects of religious buildings are minor and negligible.

Design in religious architecture does not change because their features and aesthetic are preserved according to their origins and not fully influenced by modern design culture.

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Aesthetics in the interior of eateries in Korea were observed to have cultural influences from the US concepts, such as burger joints and the Texas style BBQ restaurants.

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Why are the Koreans so good at gaming?

The Country that has the best environment for gaming

In 1997,  South Korea had a bad economy due to Korean War

To overcome the crisis, they invest in IT companies

Costs of PCs are low

High internet speed all around Korea

Limited landscape so not many outdoor places for children to play

Yet there are those that still play football outside.

Interests besides gaming are too expensive so gaming is affordable and easy to get into after long hours of studying.

It became a trend and social activity.

Competing-obligated society

The national traits of Koreans, a qualified pro gamer.