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Hallyu: Riding the Korean Wave
If you know Rain, BoA (shown left), and Sistar, then you already know K-Pop, Korea’s contemporary pop music and its artists.
K-Pop music is one of the fastest growing music genres in the world, and along with Korea’s popular TV drama serials, films and comic books are a growing source of export revenue for Korea.
The growing global fan base of Korea's entertainment and cultural offerings, known as "Hallyu" or the "Korean Wave" feels more like a tidal wave in some countries. In France, for example, fans mostly in their youth sold out a concert in Paris reportedly in fifteen minutes. Several hundred fans who missed out on tickets held a rally and danced to K-Pop music in front of the Louvre Museum campaigning for a second concert. They got their wish for a second concert which also sold out in minutes. Aflash mob as witnessed by this YouTube video shows hundreds of fans from all ethnicities crowding the Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris last June, 2011 to welcome their favorite K-Pop artists. (image right)
On
December
31,
2011
Korea's
Culture,
Sports
and
Tourism
Minister
Choe
Kwang-shik announced
a
2012
policy
to
expand
support
of
Hallyu,
to
help
keep
the
wave
of
Korean
pop
culture
surging
across
its
borders.
The
Korean
government
also
hopes
to
attract
more
Hallyu
fans
into
the
areas
of
food,
tourism,
fashion
and
other
cultural
and
entertainment
offerings.
Raul Aranas, Aaron Lazar, Kate Baldwin, P.J. Griffith Set for Giant at the Wyly Theatre, 1/18-2/19/12
Raul
Aranas,
Kate
Baldwin,
P.J.
Griffith,
Dee
Hoty,
Aaron
Lazar
and
Katie
Thompson are
set
for Giant,
a
co-production
of
the
Dallas
Theater
Center
and
The
Public
Theater,
which
runs
at
the
Wyly
Theatre
located
in
the
AT&T
Performing
Arts
Center,
2400
Flora
Street
in
Dallas,
from
January
18
–
February
19,
2012.
Opening
night
is
Friday,
January
27
at
8:00
p.m.
Three-time Tony nominee Michael Greif (Rent, Grey Gardens, Next to Normal) helms Giant, the sprawling, epic love story with larger-than-life characters and Texas-size musical numbers, written by Michael John LaChiusa (music and lyrics) and Sybille Pearson, and based on the classic novel by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Edna Ferber.
Aaron
Lazar,
who
has
appeared
in
seven
Broadway
productions
including A
Tale
of
Two
Cities,Impressionism, The
Light
in
the
Piazza,
and
the
recent
revival
of
Stephen
Sondheim’s A
Little
Night
Music,
stars
as
Texas
cattleman
Bick.
Lazar
was
nominated
for
a
Drama
Desk
Award
for
his
role
in
the
revival
of Les
Miserables and
can
now
be
seen
in
Clint
Eastwood’s
film J.
Edgar.
Kate
Baldwin,
a
Tony
Award
nominee
for Finian’s
Rainbow
Memorial Services January 6 for Civil Rights Leader Gordon Hirabayashi 1918 - 2012
CHINGLISH Celebrates 100th Performance on 1/5/12 – Meet the Cast at the Lin Sing Association in NY Chinatown
Chinglish playwright David Henry Hwang with his stars Jennifer Lim and Gary Wilmes at the MOCA Legacy Awards Gala at Cipriani Wall Street in New York on December 12, 2011. Photo by Lia Chang
Tony Award-winning and two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist playwright David Henry Hwang (M. Butterfly) is back on Broadway with CHINGLISH, a hilarious and sexy new comedy currently playing at the Longacre Theatre (220 West 48th Street) in New York, recently named by TIME Magazine, Bloomberg Radio, NY1 and WNYC as one of the Top 10 Broadway shows of the year. The playwright, along with his cast and creative team will celebrate their 100th performance at 3pm in Chinatown at the Lin Sing Association, a prominent Chinese American community organization established in 1900, located at 47-49 Mott Street in New York. www.lin-sing.org.
The cast of Chinglish-Stephen Pucci, Angela Lin, Larry Lei Zhang, Jennifer Lim, Gary Wilmes, Christine Lin and Johnny Wu at their opening party at Brasserie 8 1/2 in New York on October 27, 2011. Photo by Lia Chang
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