The ‘k-wave’ is sweeping the globe and audiences are loving it
21 January 2022 - 05:00
In the 1990s South Korea was one of the “Four Asian Tigers,” economies whose rapid industrialisation and sustained economic growth served as a model for developing countries around the world.
Since then, South Korea has become a country that’s experiencing vast inequality between rich and poor and trapping its new generation of skilled workers in a cycle of debt that makes it difficult for the country’s middle class to sustain itself. ..
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