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South Korea brought K-pop and K-dramas to the world. The Korean language could be next.
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There’s never been a better time to learn Korean.
It’s one of the fastest-growing languages in the world, outpacing traditionally popular rivals like Chinese in multiple markets - reflecting the global phenomenon many call the “Korean wave.”
In 2022, Korean was the seventh most-studied language on the learning app Duolingo, according to the company’s annual language report. And it’s seeing particular success in parts of South and Southeast Asia, as the most-studied foreign language in the Philippines, and not far off the top spot in Thailand, Indonesia and Pakistan.
Although Chinese - which for years has been considered as the business language of the future - remains the second most spoken language in the world, thanks in part to the sheer size of China’s population, it has sat in eighth place on Duolingo for the last several years, lagging behind Korean.
Korean is the second most-studied Asian language on Duolingo, only narrowly behind Japanese, according to the language report. Duolingo, which has more than 500 million users internationally, ranks Korean ahead of Chinese, Russian and Hindi, and behind Italian. English and Spanish still sit comfortably in the top two spots.
This rise in interest, experts and teachers say, is thanks to the Korean wave, or “hallyu” - the proliferation of Korean culture internationally.
For decades, East Asian language studies overseas have mostly been limited to Mandarin Chinese and Japanese.
But that began to change in the past decade after major hits by Korean artists and directors, such as Psy’s 2012 song “Gangnam Style,” the 2019 thriller “Parasite,” the 2021 Netflix show “Squid Game,” and the emergence of BTS, undoubtedly the biggest global stars of K-pop.
Figures show a surge in interest toward the language in the same period.
The number of students enrolled in Korean classes at higher education institutions in the United States leapt from 5,211 in 2002 to nearly 14,000 in 2016, according to data analyzed by the Modern Language Association.