Culture & Lifestyle
Young Egyptians nowadays rehearse synchronized dance routines to songs by BLACKPINK, a South Korean girl group, or BTS, a South Korean boy band —groups they have never seen in concert, in a language most of them do not understand. They film themselves and post the clips online to engage with like-minded fans. For a fast-growing slice of Egyptian youth caught up in Hallyu, or the Korean cultural wave, that cultural phenomenon shapes how they listen, dress, and dream. What began…
