Among Korean dramas, dramas giving a specific focus on love stories are considered most popular in Asia. We could consider however that love stories are actually part of every single Korean drama, as if they could not exist without. Indeed, there is no better feeling than love to generate emotional reaction from the reaction as […]
As we mentioned in the previous article, Asian countries could find in Korean dramas a new vector of pan-regional communication. At the heart of such success was the skilful combination of Korean cultural values, for most shared across Asia, with Westernized setting and techniques. The Korean way of telling romantic stories tinged with sadness inherited […]
For both his interventions at LSE and SOAS, director Yun Seokho provided the audience with a background presentation and analysis of the Korean Wave. There is no one in a better position to talk about it indeed. Winter Sonata has been coined as the TV drama at the origin of the Korean Wave. Although […]