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Interest in anime and K-pop drive boom in Korean and Japanese degrees theboar.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from theboar.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Interest in anime, gaming and K-pop is fuelling a boom in Korean and Japanese university degrees that is helping to revive modern languages departments struggling with falling enrollments. Acceptances to study Korean more than trebled from 50 to 175 between 2012 and 2018, while Japanese places grew by 71 percent in the same period, according to a report published this year by the University Council of Modern Languages (UCML). More students now study Korean than Russian, and more take Japanese than Italian, the report shows. Experts who spoke to the Guardian said this was due to the popularity of east Asian ....