Yahoo! News asks: Is there too much Korean entertainment in Japan?

[Tom Punks]

That's not subliminal messaging so much as product placement... I mean that's like saying a guy obviously eating a bag of m&ms in a movie is subliminal messaging, but it's not really.

The Karaメール one is kind of weird, but then it doesn't seem THAT weird.

Edit: Actually, I don't really think it's exactly product placement but I don't think it's subliminal messaging either. O_o

[Huaka]

They also complained that foreign ownership of FujiTV is now at 28%, and in Japan foreign ownership of broadcast television networks can't exceed 20%.

http://www.japanprobe.com/2011/08/09...ainst-fuji-tv/

[FIRSTKLAS]

I think the concerns of the protesters do have some basis because undeniably something *is* going on but it's probably not as malevolent as they're making it out to be.

Most likely, and as always when it comes to business, the phenomenon is motivated solely by money: Korean entertainment is cheap to produce and license and is of relatively high quality and that's why the Japanese entertainment industry is so quick to procure and endorse it. But like all fads, the novelty will eventually wear off and oversaturation will kill it.

What I'm actually more interested in is to see what the after effects of the Hallyu Wave is going to be once the fad is dead. Korean culture is different from Japanese culture so will the Japanese music industry absorb and adapt any of these "new" sounds, styles, and attitudes and create something different from current JPop or will they just become further entrenched in the styles they have now?

[SheFliesHigher]

Originally Posted by tokyoxjapanxfan

I was interested in the subliminal messaging, and so I googled a bit...

http://ogisuke01.exblog.jp/14976582/

You can see two pictures at this site. One is a scene from Sazae-san, a very Japanese anime, with a poster of Dong Bang Shinki in the back.

The second picture is a news show that has symbols resembling the Korean flag in the background of the set.

There's also a picture here: http://google7.blog88.fc2.com/blog-entry-1373.html

It says "Karaメール" instead of "空メール" (kara mail). The Kanji is pronounced kara, meaning empty, but it would never be written out like that. I've only ever seen it use the Kanji. (kara mail is used when Joining mobile sites and stuff, you send an empty message and get an automatic reply and fill out stuff)


There are also a few pictures here: http://blog.livedoor.jp/professor101...s/1521605.html

Most notable is the one with the woman with the tree and ribbons behind her. It was celebrating Tanabata, which has people write their wishes on paper and tie it to branches. In that shot, it says "I want to have beautiful legs like Shoujo Jidai" and "I want to be able to go to KARA's concert"

There's also a picture where it asked different age groups what their favorite Nabe ingredient is (a one-pot meal that boils various vegetables and such) and amongst all the groups, kimchee was the number 1 choice, which is a bit...strange. While this isn't impossible, it's unlikely.

Thanks for sharing those links. I'd never heard of this. I wonder....

[ILoveGeniuses]

There are a few things that bother me about KPOP and KDrama both in Japan and in general, but I'm not living in Japan or Korea, so whatever I don't like I can ignore. In all honesty, there's also a couple things I don't like in Japanese stuff and even a little in American stuff I don't like as well. So I just enjoy what I like and ignore what I don't. Simple as that.

Also, I'm not really all that interested in most girl groups and boy bands at all. In KPOP, I'm still listening to solo artists for the most part. Same with CPOP, JPOP, British pop and American music as well. In many countries, I barely pay attention to the industry in all honesty. There's just not a lot of newer artists coming out these days from anywhere that really excites me, so I'm usually just sticking to the artists I was already into.