“I love the unique culture of Bengal. [knowing] Language is the best way to understand and experience a culture,” the 26-year-old, who is a big fan of Bengali detective series Feluda and adventure series Kakababu, said in Asia this week.
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One of Lee’s followers, Enakshi Bhattacharjee, said in a comment on Lee’s Bengali Lala YouTube channel that she was fascinated to hear a non-Bengali speak Bengali perfectly.
Luna Yogini, also known as Dasom, shares her daily activities in Seoul, night drives in Kolkata, dancing with tribal women in Santiniketan, West Bengal, and watching sports on Instagram with 102,000 followers. She shares updates about the places she has traveled with her followers in Bengali. new hairstyle.
In one video, Luna recommends a popular antiseptic cream that many Bengalis of Indian descent use for chapped lips. In another photo, she sings a Bengali song praising Kolkata, home to 2.7 million Bengalis, with her mother tied to a rope.
Luna started living in West Bengal when she was five years old, and was raised by her mother who wanted her to grow up in a multicultural environment. She is 35 years old and her mother, who works as a yoga trainer, currently lives in Seoul, where she has set up a yoga studio.
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In one video, Luna explained in Bengali that she fell in love with India because she grew up in West Bengal, where her friends and family live.
Prapti Bindu, one of her followers, praised Luna’s fluent Bengali and said that the Korean influencer can speak Bengali better than most Bengalis.
Across the border in Dhaka, Joseph Kim runs a YouTube channel, Koreanbai, with about 369,000 followers, where he posts videos about his experiences in Bangladesh, where he has lived for more than 12 years.
In one video, Kim said that while he was studying economics at North South University in Bangladesh, he started studying Bengali to learn more about the country’s culture.
Kim, who describes herself as a YouTuber, entrepreneur and activist, told her followers that she has a dream of building a school for underprivileged children in the country. He has worked with non-profit organizations to support local schools in Khulna, Bangladesh. In one video, Kim said that Bangladeshi culture makes him feel welcome in the country as if he were part of a “big family.” .
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One of Kim’s followers, Sheikh Ahmad Baqi Billah, said Kim loved Bangladesh “more than many of us” and argued that the government should grant him honorary citizenship. Another supporter, Thongmoy Chowdhury, urged Kim to remain in Bangladesh because he considers Koreans to be Bangladeshi citizens.
Sharanika Akhter, 30, a Bangladeshi-American, noticed an increase in the number of people following her Instagram account after she shared a video of her wedding in New York last August. At her wedding, she and her husband Sehi Kim, 33, watched a traditional Bengali ceremony.
A year ago, South Korean boy group Tan, girl group ICU, and taekwondo performance team Norja performed at a K-pop concert in Dhaka, which was organized to celebrate the 50th anniversary of diplomatic relations between South Korea and Bangladesh.prior to the event, The Tan band members became beloved by Bangladeshis after they spoke briefly in Bengali in a video about a concert in Dhaka.
Among them is Kim Young-sik, a Korean poet who translated Tagore’s collection of poems. GitanjalI learned Korean from English and founded the Korean Tagore Association in Seoul in 1981.
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Boston-based Korean scholar Chung Seung-hee has written a novel by Bangladeshi author Shaheen Akhtar, Talaash Decades after the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War, she described the lives of Birangona women and noted the growing popularity of Bengali culture among Koreans. She explained that this was partly due to the common experience of Koreans and Bangladeshis who fought to use their respective languages before independence.
According to Chung, an associate professor and Korean language coordinator at Boston University, Korean and Bengali also have similarities in grammar and sentence structure.
“Words in Korean and Bengali also sound similar. The Bengali writing system is phonetic and easy to learn,” Chung said in Asia this week.
These language similarities are what inspired YouTuber Lee to learn Bengali in the first place, and his fluency continues to attract even more fans in South Asia.
“These similarities make me more attracted to Bengalis and they become friendlier towards me when I speak Bengali,” he said.