Editor’s word: At present’s publish is authored by Rosalie Kim, Lead Curator of the Hallyu! The Korean Wave Exhibition on the Victoria and Albert Museum, now exhibiting on the Museum of Positive Arts in Boston
The Korean Wave, often known as “Hallyu,” refers back to the meteoric rise of well-liked tradition from South Korea that challenges the worldwide present of popular culture at present. Spearheaded by Okay-drama, cinema and Okay-pop music, its first wave rippled throughout Asia within the late Nineties earlier than going world within the mid-2000s because of a younger tech-savvy viewers making use of rising social media platforms and smartphones.
Between September 2022 and June 2023, the Victoria & Albert Museum in South Kensington, London, inaugurated Hallyu! The Korean Wave, an exhibition charting the making of this cultural phenomenon by contextualising it towards the backdrop of Korea’s trendy historical past. It showcased the essential roles of fandoms and applied sciences behind its success alongside its impression on the fields of Okay-beauty and trend.
Particularly, the exhibition featured an thrilling interactive dance set up created in collaboration with Google Arts & Tradition Lab. This immersive set up noticed guests studying the glossy strikes and choreography which can be the hallmark of Okay-pop. They then turned a part of a collective Okay-pop dance expertise, capturing the colourful and energetic world of Korean popular culture.
A touring model of the exhibition, together with the dance interactive, is touring world wide within the subsequent two years, opening this week at its first cease, the Museum of Positive Arts in Boston. In case you can not make it to the exhibition, you may discover Okay-Pop wherever you’re via a brand new interactive expertise known as Okay-Pop Dance Problem. This enjoyable new expertise is powered by machine studying and developed by the V&A and Google Arts & Tradition.
In Okay-Pop Dance Problem, comply with Chung Han-byeol, skilled dancer at BB Trippin, the famend choreographer for Okay-Pop idols like ATEEZ, Jessi, Ailee and Wanna One, to study level strikes and grow to be a part of your individual Okay-Pop music video to PSY’s “That That” (prod. & feat. SUGA of BTS).
