한국인의 대만 인식: 대중문화 경험을 중심으로

Korean’s Cognition on Taiwan: focused on pop-culture experience

The historic relationship between Korea and Taiwan was a blood alliance. But it was a top-down relationship, and has been collapsed after the rupture. Generally, Korean has had an empty image on Taiwan. However, there are some changes these days. This paper researches a statistics of the key words ‘Taiwan’ and ‘Taipei’ from 2007 to November 2016 on the Naver Trends, the very most popular portal site in Korea for examining what those changes are. Many Korean’s interest on Taiwan has focused on pop-culture, weather, sports, tourism and so on. Grandfathers over Flowers, an entertainment program that is the Korean cable channel tvN broadcasted from July 2013 was a knee point in Korean’s interest on Taiwan. We have known some new trends through its internet viewer board. First, it has played an important role making an opportunity of new concept on Taiwan. Second, many Koreans have recalled and strengthened their own cognition and experience on Taiwan. Third, the indirect or media experiences also have been recalled after watching this program. Fourth, many Korean’s individual cognition and attitude have been very positive, and the impression has been very good.