The history of cultural exchanges between China and South China can be traced back to before the Sui and Tang Dynasties. 65438-0992 After the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and South Korea, bilateral cultural exchanges have achieved fruitful results. 1994 after the governments of China and South Korea signed the Agreement on Cultural Cooperation between the Governments of People's Republic of China (PRC) and the Republic of Korea in March, China and South Korea signed an annual exchange plan. With the active promotion of the two governments, the cultural exchange plan between the two sides has been implemented smoothly, and the number and content of exchanges have been increasing, forming a multi-level, multi-channel and diversified cultural exchange relationship led by the government. The cultural exchange between the two sides has gradually expanded from the official to the folk. Korean Wave, represented by Korean TV dramas, pop music, games and costumes, has set off a wave of Korean pop culture in China. The Korean Ministry of Culture plans to import 65,438+00% cultural products into the China market. According to the analysis of the "Korean Wave" and its economic ripple effect by the Korea Industrial Policy Research Institute, the benefits brought by the "Korean Wave" to the Korean economy reached 4.5 billion US dollars, including 3.3 billion US dollars from China. According to Korean statistics, in the past two years, more than 350 Korean movies and TV series have been broadcast on TV stations in China. Korean dramas such as Miss Mermaid, Dae Jang Geum and Watch are loved by many people in China, especially young people. Driven by the "Korean Wave", the number of Korean tourists and students studying in China has increased steadily. According to Xinhua News Agency, on June 5438+065438+ 10/4, 2005, there were nearly 43,000 Korean students studying in China, and nearly 10,000 students studying in China and South Korea, ranking first among foreign students in the other country. At the same time, China fever, known as the "Korean Wave", has also risen in South Korea. At the end of 2004, the world's first Confucius Institute in China and the first China Cultural Center in Asia were listed in Seoul, the Korean capital. The craze for learning Chinese is heating up in South Korea. In 2004, the number of people taking the Chinese Proficiency Test (HSK) in South Korea reached 23,000 (the total number of people taking the HSK test outside China in 2004 was 30,000). Television stations that specialize in broadcasting China programs, such as "Hao TV Station", "Zhonghua TV Station" and "Zhonghua TV Station", have sprung up like mushrooms after rain. China and South Korea have agreed to hold a series of activities of "Perceiving China" in South Korea in 2006, and 2007 will be "China-South Korea Exchange Year".