Hallyu: The Korean Wave (Hallyu)

The Korean Wave, also known as Hallyu, refers to the rapidly increasing popularity of Korean cinema, pop music, television series, and food around the world. It has its origins in the 1970s, and so no signs of slowing down. This has led to a meteoric growth of interest in Korean popular culture in the academic world. In some universities, the number of students of the Korean language and of Korean Studies in general surpasses that of all other Asian languages and countries, including China and India. The main aims of this journal are twofold. First, it serves as a documentary resource for autobiographical and experiential pieces on those at the heart of Hallyu. While much scholarship has been devoted to the outcomes of and processes underlying the phenomenon, these pieces highlight the lived experience of those have participated in and contributed to it. Typically, these take the form of multimodally presented interviews accompanied by analysis from invited contributors with relevant expertise. Second, it aims to promote a scholarly understanding of the on-going global spread of Korean popular culture in the late twentieth and early twenty first centuries, including, but not limited to its precursors, origins, development, individual instantiations (i.e., particular pieces of media, individuals, fandoms, and other stakeholders) contemporary disposition, reception, and current trends. To this end, it accepts original, empirical, theoretical, and critical academic articles on these topics in Hallyu. It encourages the submission of work for peer-review from any of the disciplinary perspectives of the Humanities and Social Sciences, as well as those which blur disciplinary boundaries taking interdisciplinary or transdisciplinary approaches.

Hallyu: The Korean Wave (Hallyu) is :-

• International, Peer-Reviewed, Open Access, Refereed, Korean popular culture, Hallyu, Korean cinema, K-pop, television series, Korean food, media studies, cultural studies, sociology, anthropology, interdisciplinary humanities and social sciences , Online , Monthly Journal

• UGC Approved, ISSN Approved: P-ISSN E-ISSN: 3050-5526, Established: 2025,
• Does Not Provide Crossref DOI

• Not indexed in Scopus, WoS, DOAJ, PubMed, UGC CARE