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 ...
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 which ...