Teenagers Are Influenced By Thai Teens

Nowadays, Thai teenager interest in the various trends whether it be sport, fashion, music or else. It is made them favor and follow trends. We think that around ten years lately. The most trends from foreign countries have influenced in Thailand mostly such as from America, Japan, and Korea. These countries are very famous in many trends. America is famous the overall trends in the world because of a great power country. The most people know that a point because it is very general. But the trends of Japan and Korea are very famous too. The most teenager called “Japanese Wave” and “Korean Wave”. They spread in Asia, Europe and America. They can make teenagers favor and follow them. In Thailand, this trends are very well-known. Teenagers would

And Korean language influence for teenager because Korean wave is coming to Thailand. It made many universities in Thailand add Korean language course in them such as Burapha University, Chulalongkorn University, Srinakarinwirot University and Silapakorn University. And the reason is easier than Japanese language. From a poll of Hardest Languages for Translators to Learn by Hugo (2015) survey that Korean language is the fifth place and Japanese is the third place of Hardest Languages for Translators to Learn. Korean language and Japanese language has the same thing that arranges the sentence by the subject is first, then is the object, and finally is the verb (SOV). But Japanese language is more complex than Korean language. For example, Japanese language has many kinds of letter for writing; Hiragana, Katakana, and Kanji. But Korean language has only Hangul for

In 2010 to now, Korean wave makes people who learn and exchange language and cultures through Korean drama and Korean pop music (K - pop). Teenagers are influenced by Korean wave. Korean drama is influencing in teenager such as Korean cultures, food, clothes, cosmetics, tourist attractions in Korea. It makes teenager favor and follow them. Korean actors will come to Thailand every year for arranging Fan Meeting in Thailand. It is possible that teenagers want to go to Korea more. Thairath (2015) reported that the number of Thai people that going to Korea is about 400,000 people in 2015 and it will increase in the number of people every year in the future. There are tourist attractions that Thai people like to go there such as Hwaseong Haenggung Palace (From drama “Dae Jang Geum”), N Seoul Tower, Nami Island, Myeongdong Market and else. Korean pop music (K - Pop) is very popular in Thailand. Many teenager favor it. Korean artists will go to foreign countries to expand Korean pop music (K - Pop). In Thailand, the most of Korean boy groups and girl groups will come to Thailand per month for promoting their events, concert, fan meetings, and else. They make teenager favor them easily by Social networking service (SNS) such as Twitter, Facebook, and Youtube. Korean artist will post messages or pictures on their SNS for people that know them. Korean artist will release their songs and music video on Youtube