What is South Korea known for?

Korean Pop Music

South Korea is currently known around the world for its pop culture that is affecting fan boys and fan girls all around the world known as the Hallyu or the Korean Wave. Because of the good looks of the idol, choreography of the dance for different songs, and the catchy beat of Korean pop music, it caused attention of a lot of people all around the world apart from Korea itself. Famous boy band like the Super Junior that will be holding their concert in Singapore at December 2010 have their 5000 seat concert sold out within a day and have fans queuing over night just to see their performance. Buyers include foreigners like Korean, Philippines, and Malaysian that came especially to Singapore to purchase the concert ticket. Korean pop music will appear to top in music charts of other countries like America and Japan as well.

Korean Drama

Korean drama gained its popularity over the past few years gaining attention not only from the teenagers but also the middle-aged person as well, especially for women. The interesting plot of the drama and along with the good-looking celebrities make the show worth to watch and some fans even go crazy over the drama series. Some famous drama even has their filming location turned into a tourist attraction because of its popularity. Examples of some Korean Drama would be Boys over Flowers, The First Shop of Coffee Prince, Winter Sonata and more.

E-sports

Apart from sports itself, South Korea is also well known for their population that are indulged in gaming to the extent of playing a computer as a full-time job and competitions being held at convention centres and broadcasted live on television channel in Korea and live streams over the internet. Among all the games that are available in the market, a real time strategy game called Starcraft is exceptionally popular in Korea. Because of the games nature to strategise and test the ability of the player to multi-task and react according to the opponent’s strategy, the game had caught the attention of many Koreans and gamers from all over the world. The game is so popular that the players will be paid to play the game as a full-time job over 10hours a day and players would compete in competition with attractive prizes e.g. the champion of the Sony Ericsson STARCRAFT II Open Season3 will earn himself 100,000,000 KRW, which is USD 85,700. GomTV is one of the official broadcasters of Starcraft with Incheon Tourism Organization is also one of the sponsors of the event.