"What is the Korean wave?"

Translation: 한류는 무엇입니까?

[dzeran]

What IS the korean wave?

[Komerinam]

You know, K-pop & things like that - Korean culture.

[hyangiixi]

A few definitions of "한류" / "Korean Wave" for anyone curious (copied from several sources):

• "Beijing journalists first coined the term Hallyu, or Korean Wave, in the late 1990s as they discussed the sharp rise in global popularity and interest in Korean culture and pop-culture."

• "The Korean Wave (Hallyu) refers to the global popularity of South Korea's cultural economy exporting pop culture, entertainment, music, TV dramas, and movies."

• "The Korean Wave (Korean: 한류; Hanja: 韓流; literally meaning "wave/flow of Korea") is the increase in global popularity of South Korean culture since the 1990s. First driven by the spread of K-dramas and K-pop across East, South, and Southeast Asia during its initial stages, the Korean Wave evolved from a regional development into a global phenomenon, carried by the Internet and social media and the proliferation of K-pop music videos on YouTube."

[SeanFogart4]

Is translating it "wave" operating under the mistaken assumption that 韓流=>한류 is an abbreviation of 韓國流行=>한국유행 which would make more sense in another language than Korean as it's spoken in the South?

[EL-AtrachF]

Is 뭐 있습니까 wrong?

[dipagssi]

Is 뭐 있습니까 wrong?

Yes. 있다 means to 'to have/to exist'. 뭐가 있다 would mean 'what do you have/what's there?'.

For questions such as the given one, you have to use 이다. So, you can say 뭐야? / 뭐예요?