With the global phenomenon of K-pop, K-beauty, and K-dramas, Netflix announced at the beginning of this year that they would invest $700 million on Korean dramas and other Korean entertainment content. With the huge worldwide success of Squid Game, we can see how extraordinary Korean dramas can be with a vast investment from Netflix. Director…
Korean drama Squid Game (오징어게임) is the number one show on Netflix in the US as well as much of the world right now. Squid Game is also scoring a perfect 100% among critics on Rotten Tomatoes. If this news surprises you, you obviously have not yet seen this incredibly stylish series that grips you…
Paulo Coelho, author of the modern classic The Alchemist, said about My Mister: “It was a masterpiece. It’s one of the best works I’ve seen recently. It shows the intricacy of human psychology and … it is a flawless description of the human condition”. This is high praise for a K Drama from a man…
There’s really no question the appeal surrounding Korean dramas, aka K-Dramas. So many people are watching them and if they aren’t watching, they’ve heard of them; look no further than the explosion of offerings on Netflix and other streaming platforms. The K-Drama global phenomenon is real. I’ve even started bringing them into my clinical work.…
A pleasant bonus surprise was that my children also started watching these Kdramas with me. They didn’t seem to mind the subtitles, and in fact, my teen-aged daughter begged me for weekly Korean language tutoring. I blame the pandemic for many things, a long and sad list which includes my metamorphosis into a legit, full-blown…
A list of this year’s 2021 Baeksang Award winners has been released! All the nominated Korean dramas are currently available to stream in many regions but the films are not yet available as of this writing. Here are this year’s Film & Television winner and nominee highlights with links for where to watch the ones…
The annual Korean Baeksang Awards (also known as the Paeksang Arts Awards) are the most popular and prestigious awards for film and television in South Korea. Similar to the Academy Awards, the Baeksang Awards have categories to present the best films, directors, actors and actresses, screenplays, etc. In addition to awarding films, awards also go the…
It’s hard to say exactly when this drama stole my jaded middle aged heart, but it surely wasn’t long before I found myself completely invested in the lives of each vibrant member of the Reply 1988 cast. Revolving around a group of families who quite literally live on top of one another in a small…
The explosive growth in the popularity of Korean pop culture has made Korean movies on Netflix a must have genre for this leading streaming platform. From nostalgic classics to slick modern dystopian thrillers, some very entertaining Korean movies are now available for viewing with a Netflix membership. Korean filmmakers always seem to know how to…
Kdramas with non-human lead characters and elements of fantasy are the best. I am not alone in this view; these supernatural Korean dramas are wildly popular and there are good reasons for this. When the lead character is nonhuman, whether an angel, robot, alien, mermaid, webtoon, or goblin, the storyline tends to be more unpredictable,…