Winter Sonata as the pioneer of Hanryu

I agree that Winter Sonata is the pioneer of Henrys. Like the article describes, Winter Sonata contain contrastive elements which catch the eyeballs of middle hoary women. The pure love plots, the sentimentalist and slow-paced scenes and the choice of actors blended and created a chemistry action which provide rooms for the audience to fantasize and envision themselves in the scenes of the drama. Winter Sonata not only fulfills the receptive needs of the middle aged women, but in any case fulfills their psychological needs.While they are enjoying the beautiful scenery in the television screen, at the same time they send word be satisfied with their hidden desire, as the writer pointed out. I think this is the largest attraction to the audience, as the drama triggers their imagination. They notify feel excited but halcyon when imagining their own stories in their safety zone, where they can forget the reality. Freshness is likewise an importingant element of Korean dramas th at attracts Japanese. I think that this can be also applied to Hong Kong audience.As the plots and themes of local Hong Kong mainstream drama are always alike, audiences can easily predict the flow and ending of the dramas. While Hong Kong audiences are bored by the same stories, Korea dramas provide them with antithetic themes, scenes and cinematographic techniques, which can increase their interest in these foreign dramas. Besides freshness, the original Watching dramas habit of Hong Kong people also help enhancing the import of Korean dramas to Hong Kong.Knowing that many Hong Kong audiences are addicted to dramas, paid television companies have set up many channels which are specially for playing different dramas day and night. Therefore, there are great demands for buying dramas from another(prenominal) countries, as there are not enough local drama productions to fulfill the asking of different audiences. Teenagers build forums and groups for particular drama through inter net in order to provide platforms for discussing and sharing with other audiences.However middle aged women seldom contain the initiative to act like the teenagers, as they may not be good users of computer. But still, I think the avid middle aged women fans can give an impetus to promotion of Korean drama, by creating a frenzy of watching Korea drama day and night and discussing the content with their neighbor. The mania of diddle aged women rise the attention by the mass media successfully, which help Winter Sonata gain famous and increase the interest of other people to discover the fascination of it by watching this drama.The products related to Korea entertainment industry also help expanding the Henrys. The products like, photos, calendar and key chains of popular idols and props which were used in famous dramas were purchased by the fervent fans all over the world. Stores were set up in Monks in Hong Kong which were specialized in exchange these Henrys products and Shin-Ko bo in Japan become a short Korean city, which is famous for the Korean assistants and the stores selling idol products. These reflect that people in most of the East Asian countries are putting their focus on the Korean trend.Fans are pursuing fast and new idol products while merchandisers are finding the commercial potential in Korea entertainment industry in order to make profit. Henrys becomes more important in some of the peoples living. Using Winter Sonata as the example, the article brings out that the sweeping of Korean popular refining through East Asian countries can improve the inter-country relationships. The research pointed out that he learnings of Korean by Japanese can be changed after watching a Korean drama, as they can know more about the recent Korea imperceptibly.Becoming more familiar with Korean things, they are more willing to counter the initiative to agree more about Korea. For example, they search the Korea places where scenes of drama were took place t hrough internet, and they plan their own trip to Korea, in order to collect first-hand education about Korea by their own experiences. Thus, the blank parts of Korean in Japaneses mind are replaced with different new and trendy Korean knowledge, which may learn from different Korean culture.The research also spotted that though the image of second Korea is growing more positive, there is no change on the perception to North Korea. Besides the negative news reported in Japanese media, I think the settings in South Korean drama may also contribute on imputing bad images of North Korea in Japanese mind. North Korea is often playing an evil- doer in most South Korea drama, for example in a popular drama Iris, the secret organization which aim to destroy South Korea by nuclear weapon is started by North Korea government.By the exaggeration in mass media, Japanese have an even worse impression on North Korea. After reading this article, I think the soft power of South Korea give much co ntribution to her raising world status. Not only has she had flourishing Korean entertainment, her technology development on gadgets are also astray adopted in many countries, like Samsung products and mobile applications. All these Korean pop culture are penetrating through many countries by different forms, entering many peoples daily life, thus building up favorable impression to other countries.Under the globalizes world, local culture can easily passed to other countries by internet or international companies. For example, Sys and Girls Generations music videos are always being played on the Samsung television in many electric appliance selling stores. Therefore, Korea popular culture is more exposed to the world and increases her acceptance by other countries. Undoubtedly, Henrys has improved the mutual understating between Korea and other countries, like increasing the mutual understanding between Japan and Korea.However, though South Korea now is having a great soft power, I think it can only influence other countries culturally and economically, but not semipolitically. A good cultural relationship between two countries may not be able to improve the political relationship of them as well. Take the dispute on Tasmania between Japan and Korea, both countries are having normal cultural relationship, but when tackling conflict which affect their sovereignty and own interests, the advantage of having good cultural relationship is Just negligible. Both countries will defend their own interest and cultural relationship will not be under their consideration.