Email? Where? at nuljimaripkan@aol.com maybe?

seeing that i’ve proven you to be a liar in the past, i’ll just bet you’re lying now. how’s that mongol grammar going? lol!

‘Pow Pow’ dda

well, that’s an improvement! e-mail when you get a chance.

And how did you notice that you could not notice the Korea wave in Vietnam? You mean, you went to Vietnamese DVD stores and found few Korean titles?

Yup. My favourite store in a back street from Le Loi, and the street vendors around Pham Gu Lao — no brownie points for calling it Fan’ culo!

You mean, you looked through their newspapers and magazines and found few articles on Korea?

Right, at least the ones in English, and the most prominent article was about the Ambassador leaving. Not much of an event, eh? And I watched TV, of course, as I usually do when visiting a country — every week or so — and Korea wasn’t a remarkable part of the programmes. Which actually surprised me since Korea used to be big[ger] in the past in Saigon, with lots of ads and shit.

And that is prolly a lot more than you will ever do, Yankie.

And how did you notice that you could not notice the Korea wave in Vietnam? You mean, you went to Vietnamese DVD stores and found few Korean titles? You mean, you went to Vietnamese music stores and saw few Korean acts? You mean, you looked through their newspapers and magazines and found few articles on Korea?

I’d like to know how you noticed the lack of a Korea wave in Vietnam.

Moving on to those who say it’s hype, it isn’t hype, it’s real. Indeed, I just got done lending my entire Korean DVD collection to this young filipina girl who just happens to be mad about Korean television. And then, the other day, I was at a Vietnamese website that specialized in DVDs and CDs. Saw lots of Korean entertainment products there. the Korea wave isn’t hype.

BTW, I feel a bit bewildered by all this interest in Korean pop culture. I would have never guessed that k-drop would be so big.

‘In the West, there has been scarcely a ripple…’ slim

So? Asians are good enough.

I have made cultists following Park Chan Wook and Kim Gi Duk.

Good man!

anyone who visited Hong Kong, Singapore, etc in past the two years or so would have noticed the sudden surge in demand for all things Korean.

Wel, I live in HK and the Korean wave is hardly noticeable. The Korean restaurants cater to, well, Koreans, both tourists and locals. I could say there’s an HK wave in Korea, as far as tourism is concerned: they’re everywhere! The wife and I see tourists every single day…

Then again, I’m just back from Saigon, and Korea has its own little circus there, next to the airport. One of the largest communities, TWO Korea-towns, the largest foreign industrial base, etc… The shops cater to Koreans, mostly, and outside these pockets of Koreanitude, I can’t say you could notice a Koran Wave per se. Maybe a faint, garlicky scent, at best.

^^ I know way too many Arizona kids who watched the OC too much and went to a SoCal university… came back a year later and had nothing but venomous things to say about Californians. And don’t get me started on the guys who went to Alaska to look for “easy” work…

What’s the point? People are stupid if they believe what they watch in TV’s and movies.

But I understand that there are some cultural backlash to the popularity of Korean media in certain countries… perhaps this is one of those events?

I, for one, am doing my part in propagating Korean Wave in United States by offering Korean movie nights to my friends and classmates. I have made cultists following Park Chan Wook and Kim Gi Duk ^^.