South Korea has always had a major footprint here. Kias and Hyundais are ubiquitous. Park Chan-wook’s Vengeance Trilogy and Bong Joon-ho’s Snowpiercer—and his 2020 Academy Award Best Picture nominee Parasite—are popular and critically acclaimed. It’s unclear if bangs-sporting boy bands will ever be an American export again. But we’re happy to allow them through customs, especially when they have bangers like the mostly English-language “Jopping”—a portmanteau of “jumping” and “popping”—which boasts 58 million views on YouTube. They’ve still got a ways to go before catching “Gangnam Style” (3.5 billion streams), but who’s to say they won’t eclipse Psy someday?
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