Lesson #261

A wave of Korean culture is crashing over the world—and it’s amazing

South Korean pop culture is booming: from K-pop bands like BTS to award-winning movies like Parasite to innovative K-beauty brands that use snail extract (yes, for real), the world can’t get enough. But how did South Korea transform from a struggling third-world country just a half century ago into a modern-day cultural powerhouse? It wasn’t an accident. Plus, learn the English expression “spring into action.”