Is there any other country in history that has grown so rapidly

No.

>>75922102
Japan

>>75922476
Japan was already a major power before ww2.

After the Korean war, South Korea was the poorest country in the world by far.

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Colombia due to the Narcos tv show, Despacito, and due to /int/

It's mass viral marketing pushed by a select group of korean jews

Bravo korea

Because Japan supported S.Korea

>>75922102

Germany?

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>>75923887
>due to /int/
>implying this garbage outcast board has any influence whatsoever

>>75925539
/int/ put Colombia on the map, dude.

>>759221027
ireland

>cultural popularity as this
literally made up. you literally never hear of the country name outside weeb/azn sites. go outside, nerd

>>75922102
Disgusting

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greece

btw i am a greek

>>75923887
Colombia has been on the map for decades because of the drug war.

>>75922102
You're welcome.

I really don't understand why they are using the flag of symbol of vassal state of China

Latvia

>>75923887
Who's that chick? She's fucking hot....

>>75923887
>Narcos tv show
Fair
>Despacito
Puerto Rican.
>/int/
Yes. Colombia is known around the world and constantly talked about on massively broadcasted interviews thanks to /int/, you're absolutely correct.

>>75923887
Is she a male?

>>75922102
In my experience the only people who actually care about Korean cultural exports are other Asians or Asian diaspora. Most western people might buy Korean electronics or cars, but they don't care about the rest.

>>75923887
noticed uwu

>>75923887
America tier post

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I watch k-pop videos on Youtube after every time I masturbate. I do it without err and I masturbate often. I prefer the boybands because the girl bands tend to do insufferable cutesy songs and videos. The girl bands that attempt to be more hardcore usually end up falling apart soon after. I have also noticed that the good stuff like the following tends to start appearing when summer is coming. They release the best ones in late spring, hoping to become summer hits. Most of k-pop is awful slow songs and OST shit. When fall falls, man, they love their slow and depressing songs. The few golden nuggets inbetween are what I keep rewatching over and over again. You watch them so many times you naturally become interested in the lyrics and usually the lyrics disappoint. I think Block B is the only boyband whose lyrics didn't disappoint. They of course didn't succeed unlike all the party songy bands. This hobby of mine began in 2009 when GeeGee was posted often on 4chan.

Recent boyband one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvDPinu7pVY

Recent random funny one, song's surprisingly good:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dislD8JqdmE

>grown rapidly in recogntion in popularity
Amongst whom? Only semi-educated and educated urban girls below 30 in my experience.

>>75928568
I believe same can be said to Japanese/Chinese cultural product? (Well, there are still some followers outside Asian for Japanese/Chinese cultural product but same is also true for Korean)
>>75923860
Consider the timespan between Meiji era and wwii

Americans have a weird fetish about them, they'll watch hours of 'koreans react to x' videos on youtube

>>75928568
I personally have noticed a surprising amount of people here that enjoy listening to kpop

Don't know if you would consider Australia as 'west' though