'Korea fever' sweeps Asia's pop culture

[afang]

As a lover of Korean Food and culture

SINGAPORE (AP) -- Call it "kim-chic." All things Korean from food and music to eyebrow-shaping and shoe styles are becoming all the rage across Asia, where pop culture has long been dominated by Tokyo and Hollywood.

Not long ago, Korea's best-known cultural export was kimchee, the pickled cabbage and chili dish known for its fierce, pungent spiciness

http://asia.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/asiap....ap/index.html

[afang]

As a lover of Korean Food and culture

SINGAPORE (AP) -- Call it "kim-chic." All things Korean from food and music to eyebrow-shaping and shoe styles are becoming all the rage across Asia, where pop culture has long been dominated by Tokyo and Hollywood.

Not long ago, Korea's best-known cultural export was kimchee, the pickled cabbage and chili dish known for its fierce, pungent spiciness

http://asia.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/asiap....ap/index.html

[msittig]

I noticed this too, so I blogged it.

http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~takoyak...00210.html#p17

Unfortunately, the CNN article link doesn't seem to work for me.

[msittig]

Since I'm getting quite a few visitors to my webpage from here, I'll update the post above. I did find the article from a different source, and I've archived it here:

http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~takoyak...opCulture.html

-Micah

[Jone98]

Originally Posted by afang

As a lover of Korean Food and culture

SINGAPORE (AP) -- Call it "kim-chic." All things Korean from food and music to eyebrow-shaping and shoe styles are becoming all the rage across Asia, where pop culture has long been dominated by Tokyo and Hollywood.

Not long ago, Korea's best-known cultural export was kimchee, the pickled cabbage and chili dish known for its fierce, pungent spiciness

http://asia.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/asiap....ap/index.html

Yes buddy, I too have noticed that, Tokyo had been dominated by western culture, It may leads to destroy ancient japanese traditions

[Konrad]

Hi guys, we cannot deny this fact. Whatever you have written above, I completely agree with it.