K-drama

Good morning! There’s nothing I’m excited about in currently airing shows, so I’m catching up on old stuff: watching King of High School Savvy for the first time (absurd but, boy, does it make me smile) and working on my Deep Thoughts about how to explain K-dramas to the non-fan crowd. Here are some of the Deep Thoughts, and I’d love to hear what you think.

Now that K-dramas are a huge global business, American journalists occasionally have to write about them. And anytime K-dramas are mentioned in the American media, they are reduced to two words: “formulaic” and “melodramatic.”