Heart and Seoul.(Tourism)

From: Manila Bulletin | Date: October 29, 2006 | Copyright information

Byline: JASER A. MARASIGAN

From clothes to hairstyles, music to television dramas, Seoul has recently been defining the tastes of Asians. Many Chinese consider it a phenomenon and even called it the Korean Wave of pop culture. Rain, a twenty-something singer who grew up in this city, performed to a sold-out concert at a sports stadium in Beijing. A television drama about a royal cook, aJewel in the Palace,a is garnering record ratings in the Philippines and throughout Asia. For a country that traditionally received culture, especially from neighboring China and Japan, and even ...

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