Despite these continuing controversial and hurtful issues, Korean pop culture is very popular in Japan. Dubbed the "[[Korean wave]]", Korean singers, movies, and television dramas are avidly consumed. The [[Nihon Keizai Shimbun]] attributes the success of Korean wave to the pioneering efforts of [[Winter Sonata]], which has been avidly consumed by Japanese people especially of women 40 years or older. A novel based on the drama has sold over 1.2 million copies and over 400,000 copies of DVD compilation has been sold. However, there has been a backlash; a book published in 2005 was usually translated as "[[Manga - Hating the Korean Wave|Hate the Korean Wave]]". It sold well enough that a sequel was released.
Despite these continuing controversial and hurtful issues, Korean pop culture is popular in Japan. Dubbed the "[[Korean wave]]", Korean singer who can speak Japanese ([[BoA]]), and television dramas are avidly consumed. In 2004, The [[Nihon Keizai Shimbun]] attributes the success of Korean wave to the pioneering efforts of [[Winter Sonata]], which has been avidly consumed by Japanese people especially of women 40 years or older. The audience rating of the drama was 20.6%. A novel based on the drama has sold over 1.2 million copies and over 400,000 copies of DVD compilation has been sold.
[>>2の修正情報] Despite these continuing controversial and hurtful issues, Korean pop culture is popular in Japan. Dubbed the "[[Korean wave]]", Korean singer who can speak Japanese ([[BoA]]), and television dramas are avidly consumed. In 2004, The [[Nihon Keizai Shimbun]] attributes the success of Korean wave to the pioneering efforts of [[Winter Sonata]], which has been avidly consumed by Japanese people especially of women 40 years or older. The audience rating of the drama was 20.6%. A novel based on the drama has sold over 1.2 million copies and over 400,000 copies of DVD compilation has been sold.
However, there has been a backlash; a book published in 2005 was usually translated as "[[Manga - Hating the Korean Wave|Hate the Korean Wave]]". It sold well enough that a sequel was released. Now, The [[Korean wave]] is in the contrary wind. Broadcasting stations other than [[NHK]] completed the withdrawal from the South Korea drama. The box-office record in the South Korea movie doesn't yet catch up with [[Hong Kong]] Movies. The Japanese culture has received the limitation of Ban on Japanese Culture of the South Korea government. [http://www.mofa.go.jp/mofaj/area/korea/bunka/index.html] A Japanese popular song is prohibited in South Korea. As for the drama, only the drama jointly made with South Korea is open to the public. It was permitted to the Japanese movie to open it to the public in South Korea in 2003. [[Howl's Moving Castle]] made the spectator mobilization of 3,000,000 people succeed in South Korea in 2005.