Following the end of military rule in South Korea and the ensuing liberalization of the country's culture industry in the 1990s, an increasing number of Korean dramas began to be exported abroad. This marked the beginning of the Korean Wave, a broader cultural phenomenon encompassing the rise in global popularity of South Korean television, pop music, film, fashion, animation, literature, food, and cosmetics. During the 2000s, Jewel in the Palace and Winter Sonata achieved notable success within Asia, while in the following decades Squid Game achieved breakout success internationally.
1990s
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- Boys over Flowers
- Iris
- Ja Myung Go
- Loving You a Thousand Times
- Queen Seondeok
- Smile, You
- You're Beautiful
2010s
2010
- The Great Merchant
- Life Is Beautiful
- My Girlfriend Is a Gumiho
- Pasta
- Playful Kiss
- Secret Garden
- The Slave Hunters
- Sungkyunkwan Scandal
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• Guardian: The Lonely and Great God
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Citations
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- Chua & Iwabuchi 2008, p. 59.
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- Korean Culture and Information Service 2011, p. 27.
- Chua & Iwabuchi 2008, p. 244.
- Chua & Iwabuchi 2008, p. 217.
- Huang 2011, p. 8.
- Korean Culture and Information Service 2011, p. 34.
- ^ Jin 2016, p. 55.
- Jin 2016, p. 2010.
- ^ Korean Culture and Information Service 2011, p. 32–33.
- Jin 2016, p. 47.
- Chua & Iwabuchi 2008, p. 220.
- Chua & Iwabuchi 2008, p. 30.
- ^ Ju 2018, p. 11.
- ^ Chua & Iwabuchi 2008, p. 29.
- ^ Chua & Iwabuchi 2008, p. 28.
- Chua & Iwabuchi 2008, p. 220–221, 239.
- ^ Jin 2016, p. 56.
- Korean Culture and Information Service 2011, p. 24.
- ^ Kuwahara 2014, p. 193.
- Jin 2016, p. 52.
- Korean Culture and Information Service 2011, p. 35.
- Korean Culture and Information Service 2011, p. 31.
- ^ Ju 2018, p. 7.
- ^ Jin 2016, p. 48.
- Kuwahara 2014, p. 22.
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