ABSTRACT
The global operation of economic and cultural forces which disrupt the lives of individuals is now a settled factor of life in South-East Asia, as it is in much of the rest of the world. Globalisation is not unidirectional, with cultural, economic, financial, and social forces heading from the Global North to the Global South. Outward flows of globalisation are articulated in the composition of Pudong airport. Beyond the traditional sources of globalisation, there is evidence of new forces at play, with Tran highlighting the reach of Korean, and the phenomenon known as Hallyu in Vietnam and Chen finding Japanese in the LL of Taiwan’s two main cities. Chinese – plays a significant part in twenty-first century globalisation, especially in South-East Asia, for obvious reasons.
