Cultural trends are often combinations of the zeitgeist and more rational triggers. Among them is the work and efforts of those who, behind the scene, have directly or indirectly, actively or passively, promoted them. In the case of Korean dramas, we could say that Korean TV executives may have indirectly made their colleagues aware of the audience’s […]

Every year, increasing volumes of high quality TV productions come out of South Korea. Those include of course television series, also called “dramas”. Until recently, their international distribution had been on local specialized cable channels (KBS World, Arirang TV, Mnet, TKC, MBC America), sometimes on national broadcast channels (notably in South East Asia) and of […]