hallyu
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.96 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
Synonym of Korean Wave.
Example Sentences
- "As amazing as Samsung is, its international appeal doesn't derive directly from Hallyu."
- "The sudden rise of Korean popular culture and its dissemination in Asian countries, known as the Korean Wave, or Hallyu, took many people in Asia by surprise, […]"
- "Since early 1999, Hallyu exports have added an estimated $11.6 billion into the Korean economy (0.2 percent of Korea's GDP), contributing to the status of South Korea as the world's 12th largest economy."
- "The spread of South Korean (hereafter Korean/Korea) popular culture across borders, that is, the Korean Wave or hallyu, whose origin dates back to the late 1990s, is no longer a new phenomenon to media users and scholars of media, communications, cultural, and narrative studies alike."