Comments by "Doncarlo" (@doujinflip) on "Why Is K-Pop the Political Weapon of Korea?" video.

  1. China has the opposite problem, where outside of employment or heritage interests practically nobody spends their money to learn Chinese
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  2. 현대 sounds more like "hyun-day". Although even their official ads butcher it to "hun-day" or "hyun-die" because Korean reputation was fairly weak (especially in the car market) until fairly recently when more than military, missionaries, and migrant teachers became familiar with the language.
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  3. The reasons come from an alienizing (i.e. lacks Asian faces) West and an overbearing China. SK offers a non-threatening and actively inviting alternative. Similar transnational niches exist out of Bollywood, Nollywood, and Latin America, but SK made it a government priority to go global in the arts.
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