only south korean entertainment export to make a mark in the wild in recent days you have the kate baldwin on of course that is korean pop songs which have exploded onto the world stage what is driving this excellence in south korean entertainment creativity. well i think we need to go back actually a boat 2 decades to the to the 990 s. when the government said when they were going to push their cultural content especially around age some fields like winter sonata and then as you mention keep up of course we recently had sigh and his song gung them style which was you know the most viewed song on you tube for for some period of time and recently of course b.t.s. with their world when tour recently wrapping up so there are a couple of things those breakthroughs i mentioned and also the government support something like one percent of the government budget or a $1000000000.00 went into cultural content and really pushed that heavily you that korean wave around asia and now around the world as to who it says in one of his acceptance speeches he talked about how this korean film perhaps crosse

"at the hour" starts right now with kate baldwin. >>> hello, everyone. i'm kate baldwin. thank you for joining me. it is debate day in america once again. but in many ways it's another race. the front runner, the new candidate and a different set of voters that the candidates are speaking to as the six democratic presidential candidates take the place in tonight. new national polls show bernie sanders securing his front runner status. he has a double digit lead. and there's the newcomer on the stage tonight, michael bloomberg qualifying for the first time. in the if the past two or so days have been an indication, he has a target on his back. here's just from last night. >> all of the candidates, we did town meetings and thousands and thousands of people. he said i don't have to do that. i'm worth $60 billion. i have more wealth in the bottom 125 million americans. i'll buy the presidency. >> do you think michael bloomberg is trying to buy the democratic nomination for president? >> yes. yes. [ applause ] >> i mean, what else do you call it when you dip into your endless

"at the hour" starts right now with kate baldwin. >>> hello, everyone. i'm kate baldwin.day in america once again. but in many ways it's another race. the front runner, the new candidate and a different set of voters that the candidates are speaking to as the six democratic presidential candidates take the place in tonight. new national polls show bernie sanders securing his front runner status. he has a double digit lead. and there's the newcomer on the alage tonight, michael bloomberg