Jeff Yang : For this weekend , I was never one of the cool kids , part of the in crowd . Yang : I was surprised when Latest Korean and Hong Kong pop culture became popular . He says South Korea is now hot -- with K-pop , Samsung , ` Gangnam Style , '' movies . Yang : Latest Korean cool can be sampled at KCON many years in South Korea .
Jeff Yang : For many years , I was never one of the cool kids , part of the in crowd . Yang : I was surprised when Japanese and Hong Kong pop culture became popular . He says South Korea is now hot -- with K-pop , Samsung , `` Gangnam Style , '' movies . Yang : Latest Korean cool can be sampled at KCON this weekend in Los Angeles .