The term was adopted by Chinese media to refer to the success of South Korean popular culture in China.

While some sources attribute the term Hallyu, a variation of a Japanese expression using Ryu (жµЃ) as a postfix to refer вЂпЅћwayвЂ™, вЂ~styleвЂ™, вЂпЅћgroupвЂ™, to being first used by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism in South Korea in 1999, when the ministry produced a music CD titled in Chinese йџ“жµЃ-Song from Korea other scholarly sources attribute the term's ascendance from Korean television dramas first airing on Chinese television in 1997, naming the phenomenon hanliu ( simplified Chinese: йџ©жµЃ traditional Chinese: йџ“жµЃ pinyin: HГЎnliГє), meaning 'Korean wave'. First driven by the spread of K-dramas and K-pop across East, Southeast and South Asia during its initial stages, the Korean Wave evolved from a regional development into a global phenomenon, carried by the Internet and social media and the proliferation of K-pop music videos on YouTube. info), a neologism, literally meaning 'wave/flow of Korea') is the increase in global popularity of South Korean culture since the 1990s.The Korean wave or K wave ( Korean: н•њлҐ Hanja: йџ“жµЃ RR: Hallyu MR: Hallyu, listen ( help ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)

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