![]() This spring, Penguin Classics published their first collection of modern Korean literature in the UK – a short story anthology that brings the country’s dramatic 20th Century to life. But just as the V&A's Hallyu! The Korean Wave exhibition – which has dazzled UK visitors with ephemera from Parasite and Squid Game and rooms blasting BTS since September 2022 – comes to a close, another branch of K-culture, less concerned with audio-visual spectacle, is bringing the country's fascinating history into greater focus. This year, as Netflix pledged a $2.5bn investment in Korean visual media in the same month that Blackpink's headline performance at Coachella marked a milestone in the festival's representation of Asian music, it would appear that South Korea's pop culture revolution is in full force.
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