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...Chinese tourism dried up, K-dramas were no longer picked up by Chinese TV stations and Korean brands were boycotted....
...South Korea has responded to the US subsidies with a semiconductor package of its own, the so-called “K-Chips Act”....
...Webtoons, comic strips that are designed to be read on a smartphone, are South Korea’s latest cultural export to break out of Asia after the global success of K-pop superstars BTS and Netflix sensation Squid...
...This is point K in Koo’s chart, which he highlights as the Lewis Turning Point. From this point forward, the “labour supply curve” kinks up....
...“And a lot of the clothes that the K-pop stars wear are getting popular.”...
...“Until recently, globalisation meant US culture,” says Han Koo-hyun, president of the Korean Wave Research Institute....
...David runs us through who is for and against, and includes some very interesting commentary from Nomura’s Richard Koo....
...“The next phase is for the music industry to introduce western singers to globalise the boy and girl bands further,” said Han Koo-hyun, president of the Korean Wave Research Institute....
...I think it will become wider as Korean pop culture is fun and unique but not entirely foreign to overseas audiences,” says Han Koo-hyun, director of the Korean Wave Research Center....
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