Love in Korean Pop Music
With the exception of a few songs, love is the main central theme of Korean pop music. The topic is easy to identify and appropriate for everyone to follow as every person will be unified or crushed by affection. As most know there are different types of adoration and different ways to approach the subject. Some songs vary from love's initiation, to love's confusion, to love's pain, and of course to love's recovery. This music gives a viewpoint on the…...
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NY Dialect in Korean Household
Linguistic Profile I grew up in the United States, living in New York for all 18 years of my life. Raised by a Korean household, I learned Korean in my home and learned English at school. However, I always found myself leaning towards English as the more comfortable language. In my home, I talked to family members in Korean and rarely used any other means of communication. Preschool/elementary school and media, such as the television and radio, were primarily my…...
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Cultural Communication Styles: Korean vs American
This book goes into great depth in understanding the similarities, differences, and explanations behind Korean and North American culture, and what happens when they meet. In this chapter the author, Park, takes every contrasting aspect that makes these to cultures different and analyzes the reasoning behind each norm; whether it be social, historical, or for some other reason. Park describes his personal interactions in the North American context, and through his experience the readers (including myself) can relate from similar…...
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Lost Names Scenes From A Korean Boyhood
Lost Names is an extremely interesting novel written by author Richard Kim. Kim was born in Hamheung, North Korea and after serving in the Korea Marines and Army he left the country in 1955 coming to the US and attending universities until 1963. The book Lost Names is a somewhat of a historical and fictional account of the Japanese occupation of Korea between 1932 and 1945. The book follows the story of an “unknown boy” and his family as he…...
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Globalization of Korean Popular Culture in Asia
Globalization of Korean Popular Culture in Asia 1. Introduction Since 1990s, Korean Popular Culture has had a strong influence in Asian countries, including China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan and Singapore. This new popular cultural phenomenon in Asia is called the “Korean Wave”, also known as hallyu in Korean pronunciation, which refers to the surge of popularity of Korean popular culture abroad, particularly in Asia(Kin 284). The “Korean Wave” is first coined in mid-1999 by journalists in Beijing who are surprised…...
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Korean pop culture and globalization
Introduction: Korea Pop Culture and GlobalizationRecently, “Gangnam Style” , the vocal which is composed and sung by a Korean vocalist, has created a new Korean wave all over the universe. Though the wordss are written in Korean, it is unexpected that the official music picture ofGangnam Stylehas already viewed about 20 billion times on YouTube from 2012 to show ( YouTube, 2014 ) and go a planetary hit vocal. Besides,My Love from the Star,the Korean TV play distributed by Seoul…...
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