大家在追隨韓流的風光，但你能想像40年前的香港，就是亞洲文化的帶頭者之一？80-90年代的香港流行文化於當年的韓國非常盛行，如同現今「韓流」的風潮，稱得上為「港流」，多個香港明星風靡韓國一眾影迷。當年韓國人追隨「港流」，現今香港人追隨「韓流」，對比之下，我們能夠學習到什麼，令香港文化再次崛起？

Everyone is embracing the Korean Wave, but can you imagine that Hong Kong 40 years ago was one of the leaders of Asian pop culture? Hong Kong pop culture in 1980s-1990s was very popular in South Korea, like "Korean Wave", it can be called "Kong-Wave". Many Hong Kong stars were popular among Korean fans. In the past, Koreans embraced the "Kong-Wave", and now HongKongers embrace the "Korean Wave". In contrast, what can we learn from it to make Hong Kong culture revive again?

伍麒匡(Cyrus) 於文化研究系畢業後，活用課堂上學到的社會理論深入韓國研究，在2013年韓劇＜來自星星的你>紅遍全球起，以往對韓國沒感興趣的我開始注視了韓國的變化，並開始於大學暑期上韓文課，並一邊研究一邊自學，每天閱讀韓國的新聞，了解最新的時事並將其報導於社交媒體。2020年出版 了首本著作《韓流是這樣煉成的！》，深入探討政府、大企業之間如何於韓國培育出成熟及發展廣泛的韓流產業。

Ng Ki Hong (Cyrus) graduated from Cultural Studies; Cyrus Ng starts to study Korea culture by using what he learnt from college. He was attracted by 2013’s K-drama “My Love from The Star”, the drama left a huge impression on his mind that Korean pop culture has experienced a great change these years. Starting from this, he learns Korean and starts to read Korean news and write research articles on social media. He writes books narrating the changes of Korean cultural industry, how government and enterprises play an important role on developing cultural industry as the soft power and influencing the whole world.

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