Korean diaspora culture

increase in global popularity of South Korean culture since the 1990s

thumb|alt=Korean-style English|Korean-style English Konglish (; ), more formally Korean-style English (; ), comprises English and other foreign-language loanwords that have been borrowed into Korean, and includes many that are used in ways that are not readily understandable to native English speakers. A common example is the Korean term "hand phone" for the English "mobile phone". Konglish also has direct English loanwords, mistranslations from English to Korean, or pseudo-English words coined in Japanese that came to Korean usage. Sociolinguistically, South Koreans use English to denote luxu