From EW With Love + Adoptee Hallyu: First Look At Aka Dan

Wednesday, September 24, 2014



Before talking about Dan Matthews’ multipart documentary aka Dan, I need to offer some context. The film, which received a fair amount of press largely due to its Kickstarter, appeared to come out of nowhere for most of the general public. aka Dan, though, is a part of something much larger: what I like to call the Korean adoptee hallyu—the growing wave of Korean culture’s influence and popularity in the rest of the world.

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