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にほん の ほう が かんこく より すき です。



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Mr Khan said:

にほん の ほう が かんこく より すき です。

 

what book?

(google translator ftw, lol)



Chinese people are infatuated with Korean pop culture but the stuff that they love about Korean culture probably isn't going to appeal as much to Western audiences. Korean music is hugely popular but if you don't like J-pop then you probably won't like it. I watched one particular Korean drama for 9 hours straight on a bus and to be honest i thought it was just crap despite the fact that my female colleagues loved it.

I would suppose the reason that Western people are more interested in Japanese culture compared with other Eastern cultures simply because we have had significant contact with Japan longer than most other Eastern countries and there has been more time for common ground to develop and be discovered.



Words Of Wisdom said:
ctk495 said:
Words Of Wisdom said:
Don86 said:

korean culture? most of asia have turned their infatuation from japanese to korean stuff..

no offense i'm just asking..i look at youtube and i keep seeing alot of wapanese americans and europeans..

do other asian cultures not interest you in anyway?

It's not American culture you're seeing, it's internet culture. 

Youtube doesn't reflect all the hardworking and dedicated people that make up modern society, it reflects the people that are sitting at home in their parents' basement with a webcam making awful re-covers of albums and video-diaries instead of being out in modern society.

But you are here......

But I'm not on Youtube.

 

But everyone has a youtube account....



You misspelled Twesterm it the thread title.



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Lostplanet22 said:
txrattlesnake said:
Does Korea picture young ladies as cute as the Japanese do? That's really what I like.

 

 Korea is probably the country with the most cutest girls of the world (talking in %).

This also thx to plastic surgery that a lot of girls do in Korea (Korea get mocked for it by a lot of asian non korean girls).

 

Korea has also a lot of Western fans and thx to people like BOA. I even think she is probably the most well known asian singer worldwide.

 

       Another Asian country with beautiful women is Java.  Laura Gemser was stunning!

 



Because North Korea is communist, and there isn't much going on in South Korea.

Plus Japan has hot girls, sushi, and video games.



Nerds are obsessed with Japan because Japan is one of the most influential centres for gaming and animation in the world.

Korea is also very influential in pc gaming circles though, but thats because of the crazy standard of the professional gamers there.

Speaking from an Australia perspective, not many people outside of the "nerd" culture really care about Japanese culture, sans whaling issues.



d21lewis said:
You misspelled Twesterm it the thread title.

 

 

Where did that come from?Twesterm is everywhere lol.



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