Pop Culture In South Korea

Dawson employs ethos, stating celebrities greatly influence the YouTube community. For example, she names a few well-known celebrities (establishes credibility) who have made videos go viral (proves her point). These celebrities include: Jimmy Kimmel and Taylor Swift. “Double Rainbow” by Paul Vasquez, published in January 2010, had less than 100 views before Kimmel tweeted it in July of the same year. Because of the tweet, its’ popularity, exponentially increased from 100 to 40 million.

Three metrics of success would be viewership, revenue, and cultural influence. In terms of gross revenues with respect to the TV film industry and gross revenues across media, Nielsen recognized High School Musical as the #1 most successful Disney Channel Original Movie ever be produced, being watched by more than 200 million viewers in 100 countries. The franchise also set a record for Disney Channel viewership with the first release garnering 7.7 million views. 18.6 millions viewers tuned in for the sequel, High School Musical 2, a year later, becoming the most-watched cable broadcast of all time. The third movie, High School Musical 3: Senior Year, the franchise’s only installment in theatres, reeled in $252 million in global box office gross in 2008.

The Super Bowl is one of the biggest days for advertising whether it’s for a brand new product, one being revived, or just one trying to continuously get their brand name out there. The numbers of viewers each year grow and grow along with the pricing of ads. This year it cost a whopping $5 million for just a thirty-second ad. A majority of companies this year stayed clear from sex appeal and controversial topics while a lot of companies used humor and history. One commercial that I think a majority can agree was humorous and lighthearted, was the Doritos vs. Mountain Dew advertisement.

While a misconception is a false statement about a person or thing..An example of a misconception is “All K-Pop fans are obsessed with Koreans guys.” The same example can be used as a misconception because it is a stereotype and a misconception. Misconceptions tend to start off by false information or just by seeing something that isn’t true. In order for someone to understand the other person they need to try to figure what information is true and what is false. Most misconceptions and stereotypes tend to start this way and they will always be this way unless people actually find out the truth. This doesn’t just go for K-Pop fans but for all the groups that get so many misconceptions.

Lockheed Martin (LMT) Shares Have Further Upside Albeit Hitting New Records Lockheed Martin (LMT) shares had rallied significantly in the last three years on the back of its solid market penetration in Aerospace & Defense industry. LMT’s stock price spiked almost 22% since the start of this year, extending three-year rally to 87.68%. It’s higher than expected results for the third quarter this year and Trump’s win also added to the recent rally. In the last month alone, LMT’s share price soared almost 11%, thanks to new presidents’ military and defense expansion policies. Lockheed’s stock price is currently trading around $264 a share, after hitting a record share price of $265 a share in the recent week.

The fourth-in-a-row blockbuster regarding the relations between North and South Korea (after Shiri, JSA and Silmido), broke the records of both budget with $12,8 millions and admissions with 11.74 million spectators in the country's cinemas and winnings bordering on $70 million. Furthermore, it was a success in Japan with $9,7 million earnings and it was also released in the United Stated, earning $1,1 million. A testament to the scale of the production are the years of research spent to ensure historic validity, the huge sets used and the number of supernumeraries used, who exceeded 25,000, in order to achieve absolute realism in the war scenes. The film begins in 1950's Seoul where two brothers, Jin-tae and Jin-seok are living with their mother and the former's fiancé, Kim Young-shin. Jin-tae has dropped out of school and is working as a shoe shiner in order to pay his brother's tuitions, who studies at the university.

The industry has produced large numbers of movies at that time, thus leading to a humongous success at the box office. They are mainly hero action movies and comedy. From the data sources taken from Census and Statistics Department and Commerce and Economic Development Bureau, we can see local movies have brought a total of 1240 million Hong Kong dollars to the box office in Hong Kong in the year 1992. On the contrary, the box office of foreign films has reached 312 million Hong Kong dollars, which is only one-quarter of the box office of Hong Kong movies. This fact proved a golden era for the Hong Kong film

WWE’s flagship television show, Raw, on TNN, is consistently the top-rated regularly scheduled cable television program, and the company’s other core show,SmackDown, on UPN, is consistently one of the highest ranked sports programs (as categorized by Nielsen) on network television. The shows have drawn combined weekly Nielsen ratings of 6-12 over the last two years (tv.zap2it.com, n.d.). Other, more mainstream sports are losing coveted young viewers to the WWE. For example, in the 12-17 age group, 143% more males (and 73% of males and females combined) watched the WWE’s Monday night Raw than the 1999 NBA finals. Further, the WWE continually outperforms a number of professional sporting events, in key demographics:

film industry is breaking record after record. “Despite the Motion Picture Association of America’s (MPAA) claim that online piracy is devastating the movie industry, Hollywood achieved record-breaking global box office revenues of $35 billion in 2012, a 6% increase over 2011,” the report reads. Even the music industry is doing well. Revenue from concerts, publishing and digital sales has increased significantly since the early 2000s. On top of that piracy BENEFITS the entertainment industry.

Hollywood being the biggest regarding income with 90% of aggregate industry income to its name, while Bollywood having the capacity to catch just 3% of the business add up to . On the other hand, Bollywood leads with more than 1000 film creations a year taking into account a worldwide crowd of 3 billion. Hollywood creates more than 500 motion pictures every year and has about 2.6 billion watchers . The principal felt that strikes one 's mind when you hear the word Hollywood is the American film Industry, as opposed to the area that is arranged North West of Downtown Los Angeles in the province of California. Hollywood ended up noticeably acclaimed since the mid 1900s for the birth and improvement of the American Cinema Industry (1).