Here are new entries in the American Ninja revolution and its Korean connections.
A Korean actor, Byung-hun Lee is
The Storm Shadow in the movie version of
G.I Joe: the rise of cobra.
Rain, a Korean actor and singer, is playing the ninja in upcoming movie,
Ninja Assassin. Its trailer at Youtube has already got 2,000,000 hits.
This mega singer and actor with a Master's degree is one of the Korean pop stars trying out a new land over the Pacific: hope to write an entry about him in this Blog when
Ninja Assassin is released and gets any attentions.
There's something called "
The Korean Wave," which
Wiki explains to be "popularity of South Korean culture that rapidly expanding toward world." By the time I was packing to come here in 2004, I did not understand why Greyhounds packed with Japanese or Taiwanese tourists were milling into my hometown just to visit a movie set they had been watching on TV. Still then, I underestimated it as a little fuss of Korean pop culture just for the Millennial Generation.
Now that Korean teenagers (17 to 21) are naming themselves as
Wonder Girls and climbing up
Billborad chart with their title song "
Nobody"and Korean actors are starring major roles in the Hollywood movies, I am wondering if this Korean Wave will make a change: living in US as a Korean American, I've always tempted to fix people thinking all Asians are either Chinese or Japanese. I am wishfully thinking that this Korean Wave has a Tunami effect to awaken people about a fact that Asia is a big continent with more than two countries.
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