Rosalie Kim, curator for Korean arts at the V&A Museum, and her team have finally confirmed the full programme for their event next Friday May 30, and we can now share it with you. ALL EVENING (18.30 – 21.30) KpopTeam Ltd presents DJ Phat The ever growing wave of Korean pop music crosses all […]
We had mentioned some event would happen at the V&A in this month, and we can now give you more details about it. If you were familiar with the Friday Late events at the V&A, you might know that they take place every Friday from 18.30 to 22.00 and that it is FREE to attend. […]
In his presentation, director Yun Seokho mentioned the assumption of an everlasting love in Korean drama. He therefore referred to how it impacted the development process for Autumn in My Heart, in which case Choi Eun-suh, the lead female character, dies. After she died, there was a question of how and whether they should pursue […]
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 […]
Yun Seokho, the renowned director of Winter Sonata, said to be at the origin of the Korean wave, made London his second home. In only a few months, he has given presentations at two of the most prestigious universities in the City: LSE and SOAS. On 30 November 2013, he joined the guests of the […]