K-pop wave spills over into research and lifts Korean HE

Popularity of Korean films and music drives emerging field of Hallyu studies and boosts Korean universities’ internationalisation

Published on
April 13, 2020
Last updated
April 24, 2020
Joyce Lau
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Print headline: From K-pop to Korean-language studies: Korean Wave is riding high

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#1 Submitted by kormus on April 17, 2020 - 4:49pm
2003? That's a little late, surely. I, for one, had published on Korean pop music before then, and the term Hallyu is routinely considered to be the Korean pronunciation of the Chinese term used either when CLON performed in Taiwan or from when H.O.T. toured China – that would be 1997 and 1998. Keith Howard.

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