Korean Wave (Hallyu) in China

Korean agitate (Hallyu) was coined in mainland China in mid-1999 by Beijing journalists move by the fast growing ordinaryity of South Koreans and South Korean goods in China. However, the phenomenon of Korean wave flows into eastside Asia especially China during the early twenty-first century. Korean wave covers the craze for South Korean music, TV dramas, pop stars, but excessively for fashion personal manners, cosmetics and electronics. in that location ar many an(prenominal) cases causing Korean wave being a popular mass purification in China.Korean wave spread so successful because of the Confucian themes that East Asian cultures are more familiar with, typically dealing with conventional issues much(prenominal) as family, love, and filial piety. China in particular assign a similar business relationship with Korea. Furthermore, Korean government propagates their modernization Korean wave through media power. Extensively promoting Korean culture international t urns it other reason Chinese suddenly start engaging in Korean cultures. As ii countries both strongly pay attention to the international culture exchange, battalion are more credibly try to understand and accept it.The effect Korean wave has made on Chinese slew is enormous. Daily disembodied spirit same(p) watching dramas becomes popular and the story lines are discussed among youths and housewives. Due to the drama contains everything alike music, fashion styles, pop stars and foods. Chinese wad start imitating both the way of dressing, make-up putting. Korean restaurants also sprang up quickly like mushrooms. Korean language is also being chosen as students trine language in order to understand more more or less the culture.Chinese start kick the bucketling to the record location in Korea so as to enjoy Korean wave infixedly and it also helps Korean to obtaining another way of economy profit making. Korean handed-down ethnics and education view also influenced Chi nese peoples conduct in many ways. Despite those advantages, Korean wave does challenge the Chinese its get culture. Less attention is paid on Chinese its own entertainment industry. As teenagers are the main target audiences under the Korean wave, their world outlook and life surveys are influenced by it. Korean wave might limits their minds and stop themselves up on the surface.There are two reasons which cause the proceeds of Korean wave being widely accepted in China. first and the close to important reason is that both Korea and China share a similar history background. Those two countries kick in had a grand historical relationship and both of them are influenced by the spirit of Confucianism. The similar social structure, etiquette and philosophy make Korean wave more acceptable in East Asian countries especially China alter inwroughtly than western countries. Due to globalizations rapidly expanding, Chinese people are no longer being bound to Ameri erect pop cultur e.However choosing the one which they think is more understandable. Furthermore, the ideology of Confucianism plays an important role in both old days China until now. However, the Chinese Culture Revolution in 1966 has extensively and banefully damaged the culture understanding which cause the lacking of Confucius value nowadays. Lots of Chinese people can easily trace their traditional value like loyalty, filial piety, benevolence by looking at the Korean drama as those dramas always emphasis on the family relationship and ethnics.Korean dramas are favored because of their richness traditional set which gives a good example showing China how to manage the Confucius value in modern society. It offers both a nostalgic reminder of what has been lost during modernization and an example of an Asian country that has modernized and has retained its traditions. Secondly, since media becomes the global popular culture communicating tool, Chinese people observed that Korean wave is actua lly a new inspirable culture that they had never experienced before.Depending on the age, interests and values of the spectators, different shells of Hallyu scram been propagated to different target audiences. Due to the Chinese harsh education system, youths would more apt(predicate) to accept the new culture with plenty of vigor. Those good-looking pop singer, actor and actress represent the Korean type beauty which is attractive and scintillating. Through both television and internet, young people and women in particular eat up passion in pursuing their dreaming celebrities and even imitating their way of dressing.Although Korean drama does not have spectacular scene like what Hollywood prefers to have, oppo baffleely the exquisite scene in film and the pulchritudinous actors in drama give people a difference feeling. The Korean public broadcaster KBS has airy its send channel KBS world in China for both Korean and foreigners in 2007. KBS hopes their new dish out can boos t Korean wave in China with a population of 1. 3 billion. Moreover, media return is promoted by national policy. Korean government continuously support and promote Korean wave to the tout ensemble world by improving their production techniques.The range of implementation of Korean wave expands rapidly as the exposure rate of the word Hallyu increases. Chinese people start to chase the new phenomenon due to the promoting of media. Since the phenomenon of Korean wave flows in to China during the early twenty-first century. The effects that Hallyu has been made largely influenced Chinese peoples daily life, knowledge learning and also largely challenged the development of Chinese its own culture. As TV drama was the first Korean wave imported into China. Watching Korean drama in China is as popular as having Kimchi everyday in Korea.Housewives become the typical group who sit in front of the television and so as youths. The synopsis has been widely discussed at peoples leisure which occupies a large time on their daily life. The successful promoting of Korean dramas is evidenced by the fact that they are now becoming part of the everyday program among different Chinese local anesthetic television broadcasters. Furthermore even having Korean food, so often appeared in Korean dramas, has become a new fad among Chinese. Thus, Koreans in China and local Chinese people take this as an advantage.So Korean style restaurants sprang up like mushrooms in China especially in big urban center like Shanghai, Beijing and Shenzhen. A report in the International Herald Tribune noted that South Koreans are only just starting to realize that food can be just as fat an export as semiconductors. Dae Jang genus Geum is the drama which well talks about one girls life in the royal court within the traditional Korean culture, royal cuisine and traditional medicine being mentioned as theme. After the drama was exported into China and was very well received.Many restaurants named Dae Jang Geum and attracted consumers by putting Royal court cuisine as their shop sign. Also cited was the new longing for Korean food in China where Korean court cuisine has become immensely popular and sales of hanbok (traditional Korean clothing) and traditional herbal medicine have skyrocketed Korean food suddenly becomes the most popular cuisine among China. Learning and emulating become another significance effects which putted on Chinese people. Stars of such dramas and pop singers have emerged as Korean popular idols among Chinese teenagers. Regional music channel like ChannelV in China featured Korean pop music videos which created so many K-POP fans. They vie with each other in imitating their fashion, hairstyle and also make-up. Even more dramatically, some Chinese women acquire plastic surgeons changing their face into the celebrity who they like because of the advanced plastic surgeon technology in Korea. As drama winter Sonata was played on TV, the main actor- Bae Yong Juns fashion style was usually being imitating among male teenagers. The gentle refined glasses with the special carrying scarf dominated the fashion style during that time. Those style dresses were easily seen on the street.Since people are more curious about Korean culture, consume Korean language so as to better understands the meaning of the pop songs and dramas. More students take Korean as their third language after Korean wave has coming into China. Furthermore, Chinese see Korean as a good opportunity having and organizing travel tour. Apart from the well-known destination like Seoul, Seoraksan case Park and Andong, the resort island of Namiseom where Winter Sonata filming took place on turned into a famous travel destination for foreigners. People have desires to see and to feel the beautiful scene by their own eyes.Korean wave offers an opportunity for Chinese to experience the Korean culture and Korean wave also offers Korean itself having the opportunity to show thei r success in transnational culture delivery. The economy benefits Korea obtained from Korean wave are also enormous. Apart from those stunning things Chinese see from Korean wave, it also challenges Chinese peoples thinking, way of living and its own culture maintenance. The strong propagating of etiquettes and ethnics toward different generation among the entire country from Korean dramas and TV programs provokes Koreans traditional Confucius ideology.That is the part of important culture which Chinese is losing little by little. Korean wave is not only propagating its popular fashion things but also propagating their social values and life styles. As reported Chinese people yearn and dream for a bright life by watching Korean dramas. People have desire to yearn for the lost love in the rapidly growing society. Korean typical love story lines give them any opportunity to function from the reality and believe that love and beautiful things willing always beat evil or cancerous b ehavior. The social values which have been communicated through the drama eep reminding Chinese never throwing away the traditions to modernize the country. Nevertheless, on that point are also some disadvantages Korean waves deeply influenced China and Chinese people especially youths. Firstly Chinese its own entertainment industry is challenged by the transnational power from Korea. As Korean dramas and K-POP came into China, they have taken almost eighty percent of teenagers audiences concentrating on foreigner culture but forgetting the Chinese native entertainment culture. Secondly, there is a need for big(p)er diversity and choice in education for teenagers.As Chinese people are not growing up in Korea and could not experience the life in real Korea. Misunderstandings will definitely being transferred from one country to another. Teenagers accept the surface of the Korean wave through the most visualized media tool like magazines and televisions. Without parents and the soci etys rational guide, teenagers will herculean to get a thorough understanding about the culture diversity of the whole world. There are complex reasons for the emergence of the Korean wave suddenly catches Chinese peoples attention.For the great esteem people express for high-quality popular culture goods such as TV dramas, music, fashion-style and even cuisines. It is hard to predict the future for Korean wave whether it will fad or continue shining, however, the transnational culture it has been propagated made a remarkable job already. The extensively effects what Korean wave has made did feign on China and Chinese peoples everyday life. Not only up on the surface such as aesthetic standard, entertainment ways, appetite but also the ethnics on family value, loyalty, filial piety and the inviolability of tradition.The Confucianism ideology connects Korea and China which challenged Chinese peoples thinking. In the mean time, since both of them share the similar culture background , Korean wave is easier to be accepted. Balancing Korean wave with Chinese native culture, Chinese people are also concerning about the invasion of Korean wave. Youths are mostly questioned about their future growth depending on other countrys culture. The transnational culture communications make disadvantages as well. 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