While the influence of Western, Anglophone popular culture has continued in the global cultural market, the Korean cultural industry has substantially developed

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The 2012 smash "Gangnam Style" by the Seoul-based rapper Psy capped the triumph of Hallyu , the Korean Wave of music, film, and other cultural forms that have b

The first scholarly volume to investigate the impact of social media and other communication technologies on the global dissemination of the Korean Wave

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