in recent years, in a phenomenon dubbed the "Korean wave" (韓流, "Korean wave"?). Winter Sonata was "the first of many hot Korean television dramas to hit Japan," according to the Washington Post in 2004[13]. In a sign of a backlash, a comic book called Manga Kenkanryu "Hating the Korean Wave" (嫌韓流, "Hating the Korean Wave"?) was published in 2005.