The peak of Korean fever or that we know with K-POP hit the Indonesian community in 2011. Starting from music, movies with drama genre, fashion, until the culture consumed by the people of Indonesia at that time. Therefore we often encounter the phenomenon of male bands of boyband or girl bands ie girlband in music events on television. On the road, in school, even in our game environment, not infrequently Korean-smelling attributes hit us all the time. The spread of Korean pop culture globally in various countries around the world including Indonesia is Hallyu. Hallyu is a term that triggers people in these countries to learn Korean language and its culture.
Korean restaurant
The nameplate is written in Korean
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If we often hear English Village in Kediri with its people who are fluent in English. Did you know that in a small corner southeast of Sulawesi Island precisely in the south of Buton Island in Bau-Bau City there is Kampung Korea. This Korean village is occupied by ethnic people named Tribe Cia-Cia. In this village we will be surprised by the signposts that have the letter Hangeul or Korean characters. Hangeul Korea's own writing has been decided to be a CIA-cia language writing system in 2009. Also note that here the people of the Tribe Cia-Cia only use the Korean alphabet, while for oral language everyday they still use Bahasa Indonesia.
Professor from Korea was also attracted to the City of Bau-bau, because the richness of the language that is owned by people from ethnic Cia-cia. This interest then leads to a cooperative decision between Cia-cia and Korea. Some programs were created such as exchange of students, teachers, and culture. The goal is to introduce early childhood language to elementary school children so as not to disappear.
Until now there is no official conclusion why there is a common language and culture between ethical Cia-cia with Korea. But the positive value is diversity in Indonesia. This diversity makes Indonesia considered a unique country. Uniqueness in terms of multilingual. From the nature of the tuition even to the Arabic language can be mastered. This is what makes Indonesia a country with a wealth of language. The country with the most regional languages, namely, 583 languages and dialects from 67 main languages used by various ethnic groups in Indonesia.