China’s Youth Look to Seoul for Inspiration – Norimitsu Onishi

02Korea.1841 From The New York Times:

At Korea City, on the top floor of the Xidan Shopping Center, a warren of tiny shops sell hip-hop clothes, movies, music, cosmetics and other offerings in the South Korean style.

A South Korean businessman eats at one of the many Korean restaurants in Beijing. South Korea’s cultural influence on China is growing.

To young Chinese shoppers, it seemed not to matter that some of the products, like New York Yankees caps or Japan’s Astro Boy dolls, clearly have little to do with South Korea. Or that most items originated, in fact, in Chinese factories.

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