Rund Abdelfatah
Ramtin Arablouei
Julie Caine
Lawrence Wu
Cristina Kim
Anya Steinberg
Devin Katayama
Casey Miner
Yolanda Sangweni
Jennifer Etienne
Korean band BTS appears at the daily press briefing with Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, in the Brady Press Briefing of the White House in Washington, DC, May 31, 2022. SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Korean band BTS appears at the daily press briefing with Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, in the Brady Press Briefing of the White House in Washington, DC, May 31, 2022.
From BTS to Squid Game to high-end beauty standards, South Korea reigns as a global exporter of pop culture and entertainment. How does a country go from a war-decimated state just 70 years ago, to a major driver of global soft power? Through war, occupation, economic crisis, and national strategy, comes a global phenomenon – the Korean wave. This is an episode from our play cousins Throughline and originally aired September 8th, 2022.
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