Microsoft Word - hallyu version 7.docx - hallyu version 7. Korean 'Hallyu' and the Pinoy invasion. 'HALLYU' SA PINAS.
The cast of popular Korean telenovela 'Boys Over Flowers.' Photo from their Facebook fan club MANILA, Philippines - What is "Hallyu" and how has it impacted the Philippines? "Hallyu" refers to the "wave" of the popularity of South Korean entertainment and culture starting in the late 1990s. It reached the Philippines with the first Korean telenovelas aired locally in 2003.
05.pdf. South Korea’s pop-cultural exports: Hallyu, yeah! 59% Pakistani youth say they would not like to go abroad. ISLAMABAD: Majority of Pakistani youth below the age range of 30 years, said that they would not like to go abroad for any reason.
According to a Gilani Research Foundation Survey carried out by Gallup Pakistan, 40% Pakistani youth say they would like to go abroad. ‘Dedication and committment with Pakistan is not only a good sign but it shows the youth’s heart connection with the homeland, said Nisar Mosa, Youth Leadership Trainer while talking to TheNewsTribe. Pakistan Rock Rails Against the West, Not the Taliban. While Pakistani journalists, playwrights and even moderate Islamic clerics have boldly condemned the Taliban, the nation’s pop music stars have yet to sing out against the group, which continues to claim responsibility for daily bombings.
The violence has no shortage of victims in addition to the dead: more than three million people have become refugees, and more than 200 schools for girls have been destroyed. And the musicians I spoke to have suffered as well, which makes it all the more surprising that they are reluctant to criticize the militants. Pakistani pop musicians once had two main ways to make money: live concerts and corporate sponsorships.
But because of deteriorating security in the last two years, the concert scene — and the revenue that comes with it — has all but vanished. » Youth in Thailand. Northern Thai youth encounter HIV/AIDS, prostitution, STDs, pregnancy, violence, and a wide range of other issues discussed infrequently in their modest society.
Thailand is also facing a new rise of HIV and STI infections especially among young people with 70% of all STI cases in Thailand occur among this group. In the “Thailand Social Monitor on Youth 2008” report by the World Bank it has been suggested that road accidents, HIV and suicide are the three leading causes of Youth death. Also stated in the report is that Youth (15-24) account for 50% of all new cases of HIV in Thailand. Premarital sex has become more common among young Thais, but only 20-30% of sexually active young people are using condoms consistently. China Has Hipsters. A study of the country's "cultured youth" "Cultured youth" reciting poetry aboard a subway in Shanghai (Weibo, via Tea Leaf Nation) It's happened all over the world, and it's happening in China, too.
As the country's middle class swells in number -- and its people discover the pleasures and disappointments of a life spent pursuing material comfort -- there has come the emergence of a distinct counter-culture. Thai Youth Globalized-World. Thai youth obsessed Korea. Hybrid human mutations are hatching in Thailand, with imported South Korean heads implanted onto young Thai bodies, enabling some to speak Korean phrases while their souls yearn for Seoul.
Meet Thailand's new kids: eagerly absorbing pop culture and other ephemeral thrills from South Korea, thanks to boredom, slick marketing and restrictions on Thailand's indigenous creativity. These globalized youth are not alienated punks, loutish skinheads, delirious hippies or entranced slackers. Thai youth. A growing number of scholars have criticized the CCCS, in the seminar book ‘resistance through ritual’, for largely concentrating on the experiences of young, white working-class males, with many developing theories of resistance to encompass issues of gender, sexuality, and race.
But few studies have explored the social and cultural practices of transnational culture of the young, particularly in Asia, as a way in going beyond the (global) dominant ideology. This paper aims to understand Thai youth culture in relation to their consumption of Japan pop music. Since the late of 1980s, Thai youths has accessed to Japanese music through media such as magazine, internet, radio and television.
They represented their identities distinctively from their friends who did not listen to Japanese music. Western Influences on Thai Culture. Thai society is hierarchical.
It can be divided into several categories, such as age, social ranks and positions. Of these categories, age is the predominant one that has been observed throughout Thailand for centuries. This is reflected in a Thai saying "Doen tam phu yai ma mai kat", which literally means that one will not be bitten by dogs if one walks after an elder. Children are taught to be obedient and listen to their parents, seniors and those of higher ranks.They are expected to follow these people's teaching and orders unquestioningly. This long established practice presumably leads to the low confidence of Thais.
Jakkai Siributr. Jakkai Siributr The Art Center at Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand Out of 178 countries, Thailand ranked 153rd in a 2010 press freedom index released by Reporters Without Borders.
The last few years have seen an increase in lese-majesty cases, a local law that renders insults to the Thai monarchy a criminal offence punishable with up to 15 years in prison. Thai Aesthetics.