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lot of things happened in the cultural world in 2021. It was a year that showed that our popular culture can work in the global market, and also confirmed how vulnerable the domestic market has become due to the corona virus.



Reporter Lee Ju-hyeong looked back at the major scenes in the cultural world this year.



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Netflix had to find a market outside the US and killer content, domestic producers had to find a market and investors outside of Korea, and both sides who had a good understanding became bullies.



A memorable squid game that Koreans in their 40s or older may know has been revived as a drama, and this year, it ranked first in the global box office in the Netflix TV show category.



It was also the most popular Korean pop culture meme in the world after Psy's 'Gangnam Style'.



Actress Yoon Yeo-jeong won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role as the grandmother in the American movie 'Minari,' a Korean movie-like American movie, and BTS won the Artist of the Year award at the American Music Awards, a major American popular music award.



Billboard number one is no longer news.



In the United States, the world's best pop culture market and power, it was a year in which Korean cultural products, not Samsung phones or Hyundai Motors, made a clear mark.



However, foreign guests and the Korean film market were greatly shaken.



The number of audiences, which recorded more than 200 million for seven consecutive years before the corona crisis, fell to 60 million last year and this year.



There are only two Korean films in the top 10 box office this year, and even films that have been produced are either delayed due to screening time restrictions or are being sold to the OTT market.



[Yichangmu / Korea auditorium Association: I have first-run movies are put on the juljulyi damaged by the audience plunged new to their new films also blocked due not to release this]



dollars bestseller this year's fantasy novels dealt with the story of buying and selling a dream 'Gut A total of 1 and 2 volumes sold over 1 million copies as 'Dream Department Store'.



Like Lee Mi-ye, who recorded a million-seller with this book she wrote for the first time, this year, essays about the world of various professions were poured out by ordinary people, not by rising writers.



The art market was hot.



The Kun-hee Lee Collection, which consists of about 23,000 cultural assets and artworks donated by the bereaved family of the late Samsung Chairman Lee Kun-hee, sold out every day.



This year, the successful bid for art works reached 300 billion won, and the annual transaction amount reached 900 billion won, the highest ever, regardless of the corona virus.



The trend of viewing art as an asset value following real estate, stocks, and coins is widespread.



(Video editing: So Ji-hye, CG: Shim Soo-hyun, VJ: Oh Se-gwan)