I think someone here said recently that Japan is culturally Israeli and the parallels between cool Japan and hasbara immediately came to mind (in terms of their success in the west I mean)
Oh yeah I can kinda see that! Japan are far better at that shit though. South Korea is probably the second country successfully implementing it, primarily through kpop and kdrama. Israel might have attempted to but their execution has not been on par with either of those two. Israel doesn’t really have a cultural produce with fandoms, unlike shows or videogames which South Korea and Japan are doing great in compared to their size as countries. What percentage of Japan’s gdp is exported entertainment in the form of shows and games? I don’t know because that’s a very specific niche figure that’s hard to dig into, but it would be an interesting figure to know because that’s your baseline to match if you want to get the same effect in another country. Presumably the tourism industry also greatly relies upon the generated “cool” factor of this export.
South Korea is probably the second country successfully implementing it, primarily through kpop and kdrama.
South Korea also benefits from Korean food being super yummy.
What percentage of Japan’s gdp is exported entertainment in the form of shows and games?
I would guess that stuff like automotive and other industrial things make up a larger share. If I remember right, all of the Subaru Forester SUVs for the North American market were made in Japan until recently.
Yeah what the larger part of the economy is doesn’t really matter to me, what I’m interested in is solely this specific segment of the economy because then you can roughly estimate how big the industry needs to be (in dollars from the export) to have that kind of cultural impact.
I think someone here said recently that Japan is culturally Israeli and the parallels between cool Japan and hasbara immediately came to mind (in terms of their success in the west I mean)
Oh yeah I can kinda see that! Japan are far better at that shit though. South Korea is probably the second country successfully implementing it, primarily through kpop and kdrama. Israel might have attempted to but their execution has not been on par with either of those two. Israel doesn’t really have a cultural produce with fandoms, unlike shows or videogames which South Korea and Japan are doing great in compared to their size as countries. What percentage of Japan’s gdp is exported entertainment in the form of shows and games? I don’t know because that’s a very specific niche figure that’s hard to dig into, but it would be an interesting figure to know because that’s your baseline to match if you want to get the same effect in another country. Presumably the tourism industry also greatly relies upon the generated “cool” factor of this export.
South Korea also benefits from Korean food being super yummy.
I would guess that stuff like automotive and other industrial things make up a larger share. If I remember right, all of the Subaru Forester SUVs for the North American market were made in Japan until recently.
Yeah what the larger part of the economy is doesn’t really matter to me, what I’m interested in is solely this specific segment of the economy because then you can roughly estimate how big the industry needs to be (in dollars from the export) to have that kind of cultural impact.
With the way some of these Japanese media companies act, it’s like the export market is a pittance to them lol
tbh south Korea doesn’t have the baggage of being super evil ,obv US puppet yada yada but yk what I mean