In Japan, alternatively, one of the vital in style developments amongst younger folks is pretending to be in South Korea. They collect in lodges that includes Korean drinks, meals and snacks. They go to pop-up shops and hire Korean college uniforms to really feel like they reside there.
Take a “journey” with reporters from The Washington Put up’s Tokyo/Seoul bureau to “Japan” and “South Korea.”
Expertise South Korea in Tokyo
TOKYO — Since Choa Onni opened in fall 2019 within the buying district of Harajuku, it has turn out to be a preferred spot for Japanese women to hire Korean college uniforms to wear down buying, to cafes, to Disneyland and even to their graduations.
And naturally, they like to put up their pictures on social media.
“Choa onni” is a Korean phrase for “I like this, sister.” The shop now has areas in two different cities, to accommodate the rising curiosity through the pandemic. Most clients are elementary or highschool women who love Korean tradition, in addition to youthful ladies who like to journey, in keeping with retailer clerk Miki Mayuzumi.
One woman who visited on a current afternoon stated she used to journey to Korea as soon as a month pre-covid. One other stated she and her mother miss journeys there, so that they now hire an evening in a resort room to eat Korean snacks and watch Korean dramas to really feel like they’re on a trip. One other stated she ceaselessly visits Tokyo’s Koreatown, Shin-Okubo, to expertise Okay-pop and Okay-dramas, that are vastly in style at her college.
— Julia Mio Inuma, Tokyo correspondent who loves South Korea however hasn’t been in a position to go to within the pandemic
A style of Japan in South Korea
DONGDUCHEON, South Korea — Nijimori’s most important road seems like a market alley in Japan’s historical capital of Edo, lined with an izakaya pub, a kimono boutique and an vintage retailer promoting Japanese porcelain. Guests pray at a mini-altar to a “luck-inviting cat” and spend the night time at a ryokan-style inn with a hinoki cypress tub.
The Japanese-ness nearly works, besides the samurai performers greet guests in Korean.
“I’m pleased so long as I can get pictures right here that appear to be straight out of an anime,” stated 22-year-old Kim Ga-yeon, on a date along with her boyfriend who lives in Dongducheon. “I don’t need to stress over an precise journey to Japan, which is now not simple with all of the well being screening, quarantine and paperwork.”
Since Nijimori Studio opened in September, the theme park has seen as many as 2,000 guests a day.
