The vast Han powder: Last year, the number of Korean powder about 22 million

With the "Run brothers", "I Am a Singer" and other adapted from South Korea's television program in China hit, Chinese fans to Korean again set off a new round of hot pursuit. On a global scale, the obsession with Korean currents has also risen sharply. According to a new survey released January 12 by KF (Korea Foundation, South Korea's International Exchange Consortium), the number of Korean fans around the world last year was about 22 million, an increase of more than one more than the two years ago.

This part of the content transferred from South Korea Central Daily, the original title "Global Korean fans up to 22 million 1 years more than one times", reporter Zhihui. Tiger smelling editor post.

KF released the "2014 Global Village Korean current situation" statistics show that as of December 2014, the world's 79 countries have a total of 1248 network Korean Friendship Association, the overall number of members calculated as 21.82 million, compared with the previous year (about 9 million) increased by more than one times. This issue of the current status of the statistics book is divided into two, a total of more than 1900 pages, the scale is very large. A total of 101 South Korean embassies and consulates were assisted in the compilation of the current statistics booklet. In addition, the statistics book has been made public through the KF official website.

Regional distribution

In particular, 23 Asian and Oceania countries, including China, have a total of 267 Korean-stream associations, which have increased by 14% from the previous year (234), with Korean fans up to 17.6 million, about 6.8 million times the previous year (2.5 times) and a significant increase. KF analysis, said last year in the Chinese circle set off the "chicken beer" upsurge of "you from the Stars" and other Korean TV drama popular Hot, to a large extent led to the increase of Korean fans.

There were 715 Greek-American sorority houses, 251 more than the year before (464), and the number of Korean fans who joined the fraternity rose from 1.25 million to 2.6 million, adding more than a second ago. In South Korea, where there are no embassies and consulates in Cuba, KF's TV show, "The Queen of the Wife", which began in 2013, has also attracted high popularity. KF related people said that "the change of the evening life of Cubans in the Spanish Korean TV series (Doramas, the Korean television drama) has not only been reported by foreign media, even Castro's son said he is a Korean fan."

Although the number of Greek associations in Europe has declined slightly (213 → 182), the number of Korean fans has increased slightly (1.17 million → 1.4 million). The number of Korean fans in Egypt and Tunisia has increased dramatically, as has the number of Korean-stream fraternity (76 → 84) and membership (60,000 → 100,000) in Africa and the Middle East.

Government-driven

Korean since the 90 's into China, 1998, the financial crisis hit South Korea's economy, which has led the government to actively adjust the industrial structure to promote sustainable economic development. In the 1999, the development of the cultural industry became the national strategy of Korea, the government relaxed control over the development of cultural industry, and also introduced several laws including the Basic Law of cultural industry revitalization.

According to the report of China Economic Weekly, the Korean Government's key cultural areas include TV dramas, movies, music (mainly k), games, anime, etc. The largest target country is Japan and China and other Asian countries, but in recent years, exports to Europe and the United States have increased year by year.

In the Chinese market, Korean dramas, South Korea combination, television programs in the pursuit of a day, Korean dramas high input and Seiko agents of the production method for the spread of Korean flow to win a ticket loyal fans.