A Korean Invasion into the Japanese Mainstream
It was a bizarre footage. Local television viewers were at first intrigued and then amazed at the huge Japanese crowd in Tokyo or other cities. The Japanese folks, mostly women, were waiting in line to have an audience with Yonsama (the nickname for Mr. Yong Joon Bai), the major character of a television tearjerker (Love Song of the Winter). It was the very moment that a Korean invasion into the Japanese mainstream, albeit cultural, by the name of Hallyu (the Korea Wave) came true.
The landscape of Japanese women mobbing a specific Korean actor seemed so strange to me. That's because all things Japanese which used to be symbolic of the country--swords, Samurais, Yakujas, the Pearl Harbor Incident, the loyal army soldiers charging up the hill and the women kneeling before their master husbands--are bound to invoke in you the emotion of otherworldliness. Fear and terror still run in the Korean veins when you mention the chilly moniker of Japan.
Worries and apprehensions arise. What if the male populace of the archipelago should feel their pride wounded by those wayward outings of the female brethren? There are expectations, too. Will the shift of the macho climate into feministic atmosphere assuredly contribute to ameliorating Japan's hitherto hostile militancy toward neighborly countries? If so, it's partly indebted to Uncle Sam, for plots and subtle expressions in dramatic developments have been learned and loaned from Western movies and dramas.
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