{"id":48159,"date":"2022-09-04T16:00:40","date_gmt":"2022-09-04T07:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/sep\/04\/korea-culture-k-pop-music-film-tv-hallyu-v-and-a"},"modified":"2022-09-04T16:00:40","modified_gmt":"2022-09-04T07:00:40","slug":"k-everything-the-rise-and-rise-of-korean-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=48159","title":{"rendered":"K-everything: the rise and rise of Korean culture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From music to movies, technology to food, the world has fallen in love with everything South Korean. Ahead of a big London exhibition, Tim Adams visits Seoul in search of the origins of <em>hallyu<\/em> \u2013 the Korean wave<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/music\/2022\/sep\/04\/korean-culture-tv-film-music-k-pop-guide\">Our critics on where to start with Korean music, film and TV<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Last week, I was standing in a huge dance studio \u2013 one of 12 \u2013 near the top of a funky new office tower just north of the Han River in the South Korean capital, Seoul. The building is home to a company called SM Entertainment, which has strong claims to have invented one of the most potent cultural movements of the 21st century, the phenomenon of Korean pop music \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/music\/k-pop\">K-pop<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Each generation creates hit factories in its own image. The \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/SM_Culture_Universe\">SM Culture Universe<\/a>\u201d was originally the vision of a Korean pop entrepreneur called Lee Soo-man who, after a brief career as a singer and DJ, studied computer engineering in the States in the 1980s. He returned to Seoul \u201cwith the dream of globalising Korean music\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/sep\/04\/korea-culture-k-pop-music-film-tv-hallyu-v-and-a\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From music to movies, technology to food, the world has fallen in love with everything South Korean. Ahead of a big London exhibition, Tim Adams visits Seoul in search of the origins of hallyu \u2013 the Korean waveOur critics on where to start with Korean &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":327,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,955,71,90,69,1684,9,238,89,425,509,953,1032,222,2749,58,519],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-bts","category-culture","category-exhibitions","category-film","category-games","category-k-pop","category-media","category-museums","category-music","category-netflix","category-parasite","category-pop-and-rock","category-south-korea","category-squid-game","category-technology","category-television-radio"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/327"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48159"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48171,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48159\/revisions\/48171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}