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City Pop and K-Pop are not just musical waves — they’re part of a cultural warfare. Who knew?

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The Korean wave or hallyu is a deepening trend in Korean civilization. Korean performers on television and in music lead the wave. Recently, I've learned about various kinds of idolizing and obsessive fans: “sasaeng” fans, anti-fans and “stan” fans. I also found Koreaboo.com's explanation of K-pop fan types from “pyramids” to “liquid types.” I've honestly never seen the breadth and depth of self-identification and complexity that characterizes present-day fandom around K-pop. Now that I'm older, it strikes me all as a bit silly, until I remember my own youthful fandom.

Lee Ho-young, a linguistics professor at Seoul National University, says the most pressing issue in the field of Korean language education overseas is the shortage of teaching staff. In an email interview with The Korea Herald, he pointed to the ongoing government-funded projects to cultivate domestically trained lecturers of Korean language, although he said their effectiveness remained to be seen. He echoed many le...

As a sociologist, professor Sam Richards at Pennsylvania State University has been following Korea’s ascent, before the Korean Wave came crashing onto the US shores like a tsunami, bringing with it groundbreaking successes like BTS, “Squid Game” and “Parasite.” In an email interview with The Korea Herald, the professor shared some insights on how to keep the Korean language in demand and...