{"id":75778,"date":"2025-12-28T17:00:03","date_gmt":"2025-12-28T08:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/dec\/28\/behind-crisis-korean-film-why-k-pop-isnt-immune"},"modified":"2025-12-28T17:00:03","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T08:00:03","slug":"almost-collapsed-behind-the-korean-film-crisis-and-why-k-pop-isnt-immune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=75778","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Almost collapsed\u2019: behind the Korean film crisis and why K-pop isn\u2019t immune"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Both industries dominate the world but now face fundamental transformation and uncertainty at home<\/p>\n<p>South Korea\u2019s entertainment dominance appears unshakeable. From BTS conquering global charts to Parasite <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2020\/feb\/10\/parasite-first-foreign-language-film-to-win-best-picture-oscar\">sweeping the Oscars<\/a> in 2020 and Korean dramas <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/tv-and-radio\/squid-game\">topping Netflix<\/a>, Korean popular culture has never been more visible. Exports driven by the country\u2019s arts <a href=\"https:\/\/kofice.or.kr\/g200_online\/g200_online_01_view.asp?seq=25394&amp;page=1&amp;tblID=gongji\">hit a record<\/a> $15.18bn (\u00a311bn) in 2024, cementing the country\u2019s reputation as a cultural superpower.<\/p>\n<p>But inside South Korea, the two industries that helped build the Korean Wave \u2013 cinema and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/music\/k-pop\">K-pop<\/a> \u2013 are now experiencing fundamental transformations, with their survival strategies potentially undermining the creative foundations of their success.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/dec\/28\/behind-crisis-korean-film-why-k-pop-isnt-immune\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Both industries dominate the world but now face fundamental transformation and uncertainty at homeSouth Korea\u2019s entertainment dominance appears unshakeable. From BTS conquering global charts to Parasite sweeping the Oscars in 2020 and Korean dramas top&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2929,"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":[41,71,69,9,3476,425,509,1032,222,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-culture","category-film","category-k-pop","category-kpop-demon-hunters","category-music","category-netflix","category-pop-and-rock","category-south-korea","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75778","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\/2929"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75778"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75779,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75778\/revisions\/75779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}