Post by legitimategolf on Oct 15, 2021 14:49:48 GMT
K-pop, K-drama, K-beauty, K-food, K-style—these days, everything seems to be getting prefixed with a K- as South Korea’s popular culture continues to rise in international popularity. South Korean director Bong Joon-ho’s film Parasite made history by becoming the first non-English-language film to win a Best Picture Oscar, K-pop acts like BTS and Blackpink are global music superstars with legions of devoted fans, Korean beauty products are flying off the shelves everywhere in the world, and Korean style is now seen as the epitome of cool. We are all riding the crest of the Korean wave, and this can be felt not only in film, music, or fashion, but also in our language, as evidenced by some of the words and phrases of Korean origin included in the latest update of the Oxford English Dictionary.
Daebak! The OED gets a K-update
Daebak! The OED gets a K-update
