Its leading novelist just won the Nobel literature prize. How did South Korea become such a global cultural powerhouse? From the late 1990s, Korean dramas and K-pop idols started gaining traction ...
A milestone with Psy But the major breakthrough for South Korean music in the West came in 2012, with the global hit "Gangnam Style" by rapper Psy.His YouTube video was clicked more than a billion ...
South Korean culture is once again in the spotlight with Han Kang's Nobel Prize win. But how did the K-wave start? Already popular through K-pop, the TV series "Squid Game" and the Oscar success ...
Cultural exports were worth some $13.2 billion to South Korea in 2022, more than home appliances or electric cars -- but the bulk of that was made up of video games, such as Battlegrounds Mobile ...