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Baseball is second biggest international sport, where most of the teams are owned by large companies. They have their own eight-franchise league "Korea Professional League", and the Korean Olympic team won the gold medal at the 2008 Olympics in Bejing, China. Since 1994, there have been a total of 12 South Korean nationals that have played or are playing for Major League Baseball franchises in the United States.
The popularity of NBA stars such as Jeremy Lin, Ha Seung Jin, and Moon Tae Jong have given rise to the popularity of basketball in South Korea, although they are a powerhouse in their own right, ranked #l 3 overall with 23 medals for the Asian Basketball Championship (now known as FIBA).
And of course, we have to mention the popularity of ''[[StarCraft]]'' and [[StarCraft II|its sequel]]. To say it has a professional e-sports culture built around it and other games over the years would be [http://www.cracked.com/article_18763_5-insane-true-facts-about-starcraft-professional-sport.html absolutely accurate.]
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A lot of South Korea's appearances in foreign fiction are to do with its relationship with the North. The country is occasionally inaccurately thought to be poor and technologically backward, which, understandably, annoys the locals no end. But Korea was a pretty poor country during the 1950s: it only became rich and technologically progressive in the last forty years. In fact, according to Martin Meredith in his book The Fate of Africa, South Korea had a lower per capita GDP than Ghana during [[The Sixties]]. As described above, South Korea is one of the world's most dynamic economies. North Korea is more or less as depicted in the recent [[James Bond]] film ''[[Die Another Day]]''.
South Korea produces quite a few movies and shows of its own, not counting the considerable amount of American and [[Anime|Japanese]] stuff animated there to save costs. [[Korean Movies|Korean cinema]] has also become very popular across eastern Asia and has enjoyed a small following in the west. The most notable recent film from the country to make it to the west is ''
South Korea produces comic books called [[Manhwa]]. Unlike Japanese manga, manhwa read like Western comic books (sort of like how Koreans drive on the right side of the road and the Japanese drive on the left). While also influenced by its Japanese counterparts, its general style is different from manga in that the art work tends towards realism. Manhwa is also used to define animation. South Korea is home to several animation studios. They supply inbetweening work for American and Japanese animation studios as well for home grown productions. Manhwa production ground to a halt under the Ministry of Women (formally the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family; 여성가족부), in which animated porn (whatever the government chooses to define it as that day) carries a harsher sentence than child rape. South Korea has also their own take on webcomics, namely [[Korean Webtoons|Webtoons]], who are closer to current manga trends as they favor fantasy oriented plots; unlike traditional printed manwa, webtoons are becoming increasingly popular in the west, due to ubiquity and abundance.
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The other popular Korean media exportation is [[Korean Pop Music|K-Pop]], as they have perfected the Idol-producing machine to levels never seen before. South Korea prefers large, multitudinous groups that can be subdivided in smaller units, with a sound derived of hip-hop trends and very polished visual image. While early pop acts from the country were known by small groups of western fans thanks to dramas and the rhythm game series ''[[Pump It Up]]'', it was with the sudden, memetic popularity of the song ''Gangnam Style'' by pop singer PSY, that interest for South Korean music increased in the mainstream. As of late 2010s-early 2020s, the boy band [[BTS (band)|BTS]] is the most popular representative of South Korean music in the world.
South Korea figures prominently in any ''[[Lost]]'' episode centering on Sun and Jin. These sequences are notable in that they are entirely in Korean (with subtitles) rather than employing a [[Translation Convention]]. Sun is played by Yunjin Kim, who achieved fame in South Korea before coming to the US. Jin, however, is a [[Fake Nationality]], played by American Daniel Dae Kim.
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* Korea under Japanese rule
** [[No Koreans in Japan]]
=== Korean Culture ===
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* [[Manhwa]] - Graphic novels, read Western-style (left to right)
** [[Korean Webtoons]] - manhwa online but in a long strip format
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