Interpretation Of The Korean Wave

Since 1990s, the Korean wave surged up violently in China beginning with the rage of Korean drama. South Korean pop culture spread quickly throughout China, even the whole Asia, which had a profound impact on fashion, culture and people's daily life where it passed by. Through the phenomenon, this paper expounded the overall features of the Korean Wave, focusing on the fashion elements in Korean dramas, and explained the underlying causes of the Korean drama's popular from the angle of feminine words in depth, as well as confirming its thrusting role of fashion.Rise of the Korean wave is both accidental and inevitable. As a fashion trend, the emergence of the Korean wave implies profound social and cultural roots. First of all, South Korea and China belong to the East Asian cultural circle, with the impact by the Confucian culture, so the concept of values and ethics have demonstrated strong homogeneity. Second, the cultural exchange between the two countries is most convenient because South Korea is in proximity to China geographically. Finally, South Korea has preceded China in the road of modernization, but the patterns and processes of development have many similarities. A new kind of individual form has been shaped in the process, namely the traditional-modern compound individuals. South Korea's development of modernization provides reference for China, Korean's lifestyle reflects the trend of China's social development to a certain extent.In addition, the subjective motive also plays an important role in the formation and development of the Korean wave. From the physical angle, the developmental process of Korean wave is coincident with the process exploring the relationship between the body and beauty. Fashion triggered by South Korean pop culture stands for female's concern and care of their own once again, and the changing trend has brought about not only aesthetic pleasure, but also a kind of game-playing experience. From the individual psychological identity angle, people tend to escape the pressure of social life and work and transfer energy in the fashion consumption field to put it as a way of self-expression. When catching-up the Korean wave people show obvious narcissism, and their fashion consumption has very strong features of self-presentation and self-performance. This is a kind of mirror identity. From the social character angle, the Korean wave has also led conflicts of the two different social personalities. People go with tide for seeking interesting communities. However, this community is not real, but a hypothetical illusion.As a fashion phenomenon, the Korean wave went down from the peak inevitably. From the gradual cooling of the Korean wave we can summarize the basic characteristics of fashion. No matter which wave of fashion trends, it always gives rise to a variety of symbols to characterize its features, and constitute the differences among people with the diversity, but the only constant is its eternal variability. At the same time, fashion is also a game of daily life for people who experience the changes in game rules for fun. Fashion is always in the process of constant self-construction; when fashion being popularity, it no longer called fashion, and it will be self-deconstruction spontaneously, and then brewing a new round of trend to build the next one.