Chinese Go Nuts About S Korea

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Jonathan Cheng, Chinese Consumer Demand in South Korea ‘Staggering,’ Analyst Says. Korea Real Time, Dec 18, 2014
blogs.wsj.com/korearealtime/2014/12/18/chinese-consumer-demand-in-south-korea-staggering-analyst-says/
("About 18 months ago, the fruits of that push [advertisements, publicity] began to become evident in a steep rise in Chinese visitors to South Korea. * * * 'We’ve been pushing this idea that Korea is the new Japan,' he [Erwan Rambourg, a Hong Kong-based HSBC consumer goods analyst] says. 'Japan 15 years [ago] was the go-to place for trend-setting, and clearly, Korea has taken over'")

Note:
(a) "Hotel Shilla started operations in March 1979 at the direction of Lee Byung-chull [1910-1987], founder of the Samsung Group. "  Eikipedia

Not to be confused with
Silla  新羅
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silla
(57 BC - 935 AD)
(b) “My Love From the Star” actor KIM Soo-hyun  金 秀賢 (1988- )