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Japanese women's attentions turn from Korea's cute corn to Taiwan's trendy tripe
Japan's Noughties love affair with things Korean appears to be giving way to an acquired taste for Taiwan, according to hanako (4/27).
Tacky Taiwanese TV tripe is luring in Japanese females fans in much the same way that South Korea's Bae Young-Joon silently captured hearts through the maudlin "Winter Sonata" when it screened here first not long after the turn of the millennium.
Bae, or Yong-sama as the Japanese call him, sparked a love affair for things Korean kitsch culture that remains strong even today in a phenomena known locally as the Hanryu, or Korean-style, boom.
But it seems Yong-sama and the plethora of other hunks from the Land of the Morning Calm who whipped Japanese women, especially the middle-aged, into a midday frenzy, are now competing for hearts with the likes of F4, an all-boy quartet from the TV drama "Meteor Garden," macho actor Dylan Kuo, idol Lee Wei and American-born, Taiwan-raised movie actor Wang Leehom.
"Meteor Garden," in particular, has provided the propulsive predilection for a taste for Taiwan, with a cafe devoted to the drama already opening in Tokyo's trendy Shibuya district, and more Taiwanese TV shows and movies poised for heavy exposure in Japan. Smoldering support for Taiwan, the women's weekly suggests, could be shifting Japanese tastes from boom for Hanryu to Karyu, or Chinese-style.
Motoko Sekitani, managing editor of Pop Asia magazine and a follower of Asian pop trends for two decades, certainly seems to think that the time is nigh for Taiwan's star to shine in Japan.
"This time it really seems like Taiwan is gonna make it here," she tells hanako.
Sekitani has little doubt about what's made Japanese women go cool on Korea and find Taiwan a turn-on.
"One of the standout features of the Korean stars has been that the more popular they are, the less manly they appear," the Asian pop culture expert tells hanako. "Taiwan's not like that. The TV shows are sharper and more realistic. And they really know what it takes to satisfy every women's desire to be saved by a prince riding his big white stallion in to save her." (By Ryann Connell)
Manichi Daily News April 17, 2006
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