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| 2PM |
Some of you might argue that you can’t
stand watching the ‘beautiful’ 2PM sings and dances on the stage and refuse to
save ‘My Girlfriend is Gumiho’ or “I’m sorry I love you’ in your laptops
because they are irrational and manipulating, however, you cannot avoid that
you are actually already infected by ‘Korean’ fever as you cannot deny that you
enjoy the horse-riding dance, called ‘Gangnam Style’. Gangnam Style hit YouTube
chart to be number one the most visited video since it was officially released
on July 15, 2012 (the number of viewers were 1,164,892,360 per January 12,
2013). Psy and his ‘Gangnam Style’ is only the tip of the iceberg of the
powerful ‘Korean Wave’. The term “Korean Wave” was coined in 1999 by a Chinese
journalist commenting on the recent influx of Korean music and movies into his
country, but it wasn’t until 2003 that Korean dramas, the early
driving force behind the Korean Wave, fully exploded onto the international
market. Korean Wave or Hallyu is not
simply seen as a natural phenomenon but it becomes cultural and economic
imperialism in South East Asia, Including Indonesia.
