The strike in Hollywood, South Korea as a cultural power and more for the weekend.
Last week I was in Los Angeles and it seemed like Hollywood was preparing for a hangover.
I arrived when the city was experiencing two contrasting events: the fervent countdown to the Barbieheimer —as they say to the decision to see, on the same day, the two films of the summer: Barbie y Oppenheimer– and the writers and actors strike. The city was a contradiction: fuchsia bus stops promoting Barbietourists touring the Walk of Fame and groups of actors and screenwriters parading in front of the large studios with posters announcing the strike.
Although I live in Atlanta, where movies like Black Panther, I have never been in a place where the impact of cinema was felt as much as Los Angeles. And with the actors’ and writers’ strike, the first general walkout in the Hollywood industry in more than 60 years, the city seemed torn between solidarity with the unions and uncertainty for the future.
So studios and content platforms are wondering how they are going to meet the demands of an impatient public as the strike continues. Netflix, for example, has been looking for a possible solution outside of the US.
“Content coming from abroad has become even more important with the closure of Hollywood. Comedies and dramas produced abroad. escribieron Daisuke Wakabayashi y Jin Yu Young desde Seúl, could be some of the only new content that the platform offers in the short term. It wouldn’t be unheard of: “Last year, 60 percent of Netflix subscribers watched a series or movie in Korean.”
With its pop groups, soap operas and movies, South Korea has established itself as a cultural powerhouse (its own The country’s government has promoted a strategy to make it). Already in 2017, the Times Magazine published a report on the popularity of Korean pop in Chile, a phenomenon that at that time seemed “unexpected”. Today, few on the mainland may not know about the music of BTS and Blackpink.
He hallyu, or Korean wave, has given way to different characters and businesses ready to capitalize on it. AND one of the brightest stars in that constellation is SuJin Kim, better known as Chinguamigaa 32-year-old influencer who moved from Korea to Mexico and amassed millions of followers on social media.
Elda Cantú wanted to understand why Kim became so famous in Latin America, so a couple of months ago she attended one of her Korean classes and wrote a great profile about this translator of her country’s culture. But Elda’s report is something else: a reflection on what success (and failure) means in a society.
For you to leave happy…
How do you hear 488 golden retrievers barking? In the middle of this month, those attending the Guisachan Gathering —a kind of convention in the Highlands of Scotland that commemorates the anniversary of the creation of that breed— found out.
The writer Judith Newman went to the meeting and recounted in this chronicle (with many photographs of the adorable group of canine assistants) what she saw. We invite you to read and view this article which pays homage to a breed famous for its “loving disposition as well as soft, cuddly eyes”, who are passionate about “chasing things”. If you have an excessive love for golden retrievers or for any companion animal, Tell us.
—Patricia Nieto and Elda Cantú produce and edit this newsletter.
P. D.: Sinead O’Connor is dead, the iconic and controversial singer. It’s a good time to read again this 2021 profile.
2023-07-28 10:25:12
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