South Korean Culture: Culture Adaptation Of South Korea

Culture Adaptation

South Korea has come to make its own mark not only in their home country but also across the globe breaking cultural, religion, traditional and linguistic barriers. This Korean-pop music, Korean culture and dramas became a global fad, catching the attention of all ages all around the world which became a part of people, especially those fan's lives.

A survey conducted revealed that most of the fans of K-pop, drama and culture were female proven by the gender ratio of the random survey conducted online and offline (Anzalon, 2011). In addition, Anzalon found out that Filipino teens where very active consumer of K-pop that made it a part of their daily schedule. The internet also played a crucial role in the respondents consumption

He claim that Koreans appreciated and study Japanese and western media content in order to produce their own media texts. He believed that the ability of South Korea to translate western ideas to very identifiable Asian content is the reason why they manage to penetrate the Asian market. Even the Philippines already rode the Korean wave, and as the years pass Korean dramas are not the only Korean media content who dominates Western countries and Asia, also the Korean popular music had slowly made way to mainstream media and a lot of Filipino teenagers became fan of Korea's new music industry.(Ryoo, 2012)

In terms of the Effects of Korean media content on the fans, Alanzalon was also able to argue that the respondent's daily schedule was consisted of listening to Korean music and watching Korean videos on their laptop and computers. Again, the same was also discovered by (Dimatanday, 2013)stating that there is no doubt that kpop fever is all over the Philippines, with its consistent sales of Kpop albums and concert tickets. He also justify that Filipino is definitely invaded by Korean culture, for the reason that even the culture of Korea, and how they talk are searched and imitated by the fellow