'Hallyu Camp 2014: Experience Korea Together' To Be Held August 11-15

"Hallyu Camp" is back once again.

2014 marks the third annual "Hallyu Camp," which will be held on August 11 to 15.

The event provides a safe space where Korean pop and traditional culture can be shared and has been dubbed as an "immersion camp" due to the efforts to mix and introduce important aspects of Korean culture.

This year, "Hallyu Camp" will be hosted by the Korean Cultural Center Washington D.C. and The Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission. The event will be held at the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center in College Park, Maryland.

Now that Korean pop music, dramas and movies are continuously becoming more well known internationally, the Hallyu culture is being supported by many fans all around the world.

The organizers of "Hallyu Camp 2014" are trying to fulfill the goal this year of teaching fans a bit more about the Korean pop culture as well as the Korea's more traditional culture.

The camp will feature a variety of different workshops, projects and discussions in order to help fans understand more about the Korean culture as a whole. Each day of the camp will focus on various cultural concepts in Korea, putting the focus on getting fans to have fun while learning about the details of the country.

For those who don't know, the word "Hallyu" means "Korean Wave."

The Washington City Paper described the term as "an all-encompassing term for the pop-culture revolution." 

The publication added back in 2012 that "it'll take a five-day camp to explain how the nine-member manufactured music group Girls' Generation related to 'Oldboy,' the 2003 stylized excursion into cinematic hyperviolence."

USC News reported earlier this year that the spread of Hallyu is actually quite easy to explain."For some American audiences, it might seem to have emerged overnight. But those already plugged into 'hallyu' - the word coined in the late '990s to describe the growing 'Korean wave' - know the dazzling world of K-pop, TV dramas, movies and food has been an expanding cultural forces for years," wrote the publication. 

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