UNIT 6 : K-POP CULTURE OR

LOCAL CULTURE:
LOVE DIVIDED INTO TWO?

Unit Description

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Instructional Objectives

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Learning Activity and Material

Pre-Activity – Before coming to class. Mini Survey
1. This step should be completed before you come to class.
2. Answer the following questions that explore your contact and exposure
to K-Pop culture.

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3. Bring the result to the class. It will be used in another class activities.

Activity 2: In-class activity (Synchronous)

1. You will be put into a small group

of four.
2. Each of you will spend 3 to 5
minutes sharing the result of the
completed Survey Sheet.
3. Working together, you will combine
all the results and submit it as a
group report.
4. The report should cover these
following items:

a. What are the similarities of results you

shared?
b. What are the differences of results you
shared?
c. What are the interesting findings you
identify in your group?
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Activity 3: Locating and identifying the arguments and their

supporting ideas.
1. Read the article excerpts below which are taken from Social-Culture column in Kompasiana
https://www.kompasiana.com/yosefamn/61d70b0d4b660d3cc606cc92/the-influence-of-south-
korea-culture-in-indonesia. This article that discusses the influence of South Korean culture in
Indonesia was written by Yusefa Maria Nauli.

Excerpt 1
The spread of Korean culture in East
Asian countries and several Argument made:
Southeast Asian countries, especially
Rapid development of
in Indonesia, is very rapid, because it
technology makes the spread
coincides with the rapid
of Korean culture in Indonesia
development of technology which
seems to erase barriers and very rapid.
boundaries between one country and
another

Excerpt 2
The Korean Wave or commonly called
Hallyu, is able to introduce South Korean
Argument made:
culture to the Indonesian people well,
1. South Korean culture tends to
and even tends to influence the lifestyle
influence the lifestyle of
of Indonesian youth. Starting from taste
Indonesian youth.
in music, style of dress, food, manners,
2. Slowly but surely, Korea began to
beauty products, and so on. Slowly but
poison the Indonesian people
surely, Korea began to poison the
with various serial dramas
Indonesian people with various serial
dramas that aired on private and even
national television stations.

The excerpts shows that the writer made some

arguments about what and how the South
Korean culture influences Indonesian young
people. The part highlighted in yellow -
xxxxxxxxx shows the writer’s arguments.
Arguments made should be followed by some
sentences function as supporting ideas. These
supporting ideas are shown through the parts
highlighted in blue – xxxxxxxx
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Respond to these following guided questions:

Arguments Supporting Ideas

Supporting Idea(s)

Argument 1

Argument 1 Supporting Idea(s)

2. Now, read the rest part of the article. You should identify another arguments made by the
author. Do not forget that you should also find the supporting ideas of the arguments. Report you
work by completing this table below.

Arguments Supporting Ideas

Supporting Idea(s)
Argument 1

Argument 2 Supporting Idea(s)

Supporting Idea(s)
Argument 3

Supporting Idea(s)

Argument 4

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Activity 4: Responding to the speaker’s/author’s argument

This part of the activity is the place where you practice responding to the
arguments made by the speakers in their talks or the authors in their
writings. Your responses would be either you agree or disagree with what
they think, felt and stated. Most of the time, we find that the
speaker’s/author’s argument is different from ours. We have different
perspectives from what the speaker/author argues.
The focus in this activity is practicing how you express disagreement politely.
The expressions we choose is determined by the level of politeness.

1 Study the expressions disagreement presented in the following table.

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2 Choose four of the author’s argument you identified in Activity 2.

Express your disagreement by using the expression on the table
above. Make sure that you also supply the reasons behind your
disagreement. Follow these steps to help you completing this
activity.

Step 1
Preparing the report also involves the use of
right language expressions. Study the
following information about Language
Expression used to report. Make sure you use
them in your report later.

Your expression of
Author’s Argument Reason for disagreement
disagreement

The rapid spread of Korean cultu

Argument 1:
is not only caused by the
Rapid development of
I don’t quite agree development of the technology.
technology makes the
there. is also caused by traveling tourism
spread of Korean culture in
and education.
Indonesia very rapid

Argument 2:

Argument 3:

Argument 4.

Step 2
Record yourself reporting your work. The
record should be in audio and visual mode.
You may practice as many times as you want.
Make sure you are ready enough before you
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Step 3
Upload your work to Padlet wall prepared for
this activity. Clicking this link:
https://padlet.com/athriyanapattiwael/cxi3g5d
78cnq1owq

Reflection
This is the place where you look back and think about your engagement
with the topic, the material, the activities and the interaction with your
classmates and the Instructor.

Respond to these following guided questions:

1. What are the top 3 ideas you remember from today’s activity/ topic?
2. Did this give you a new perspective about Culture Sovereignty?
3. Did this give or introduce you to new language skills?

Write down your responses here.

1 Top 3 ideas I that remember are

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2 The new perspective I have about Culture Sovereignty are

3 The new language skills I learnt/introduced to are

References, and Other Relevant Resources and Sites

1. Folse, S.K (2010). Speaking fluency activities for advanced ESL/EFL

students. Michigan, The University of Michigan Press.
2. https://www.kompasiana.com/yosefamn/61d70b0d4b660d3cc606cc92
/the-influence-of-south-korea-culture-in-indonesia
3. https://e.schule.at/
4. http://giselagoldstein.de/english/phrases_discussions.pdf