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I could've sworn we had a discussion circling out there about Korean dramas, but I couldn't find it. I searched for it multiple times. It must've been on the old website.
Has anyone watched any K-dramas?
Korean dramas have become quite trendy over the past several years. Netflix has its own K-drama portfolio, and the K-dramas themselves have a home all their own on the Viki app. My wife is a big fan of them, and she's anxious to share many of them with me.
I've watched two K-dramas. The first, MASTER'S SUN, which the wife and I binged back in 2020. We just recently watched I CAN HEAR YOUR VOICE. Both were full of twists and turns and kept me at the edge of my seat all the way through. Both of these were suggestions by my wife whose watched them each before.
I was initially dismissive of K-dramas as "Korean soap operas," and they do contain soap opera elements, such as love triangles, melodrama, sudden deaths, and that type of storytelling. But where I'd say they differ is K-dramas tend to focus more on a singular, prominent story with a handful of main characters. American soap operas (especially the daytime soaps) focus on a variety of storylines and characters.
In fairness, my comparison on K-dramas to U.S. soap operas is made from watching just two of the former. I have read about others, and they seem to follow a similar pattern of focusing primarily on a core group of characters and one pivotal over-arching story.
One strong point of the K-dramas, for me at least, is how they have a beginning, middle, and end. Everything comes full circle.
So, any fan of K-dramas?
Has anyone watched any K-dramas?
Korean dramas have become quite trendy over the past several years. Netflix has its own K-drama portfolio, and the K-dramas themselves have a home all their own on the Viki app. My wife is a big fan of them, and she's anxious to share many of them with me.
I've watched two K-dramas. The first, MASTER'S SUN, which the wife and I binged back in 2020. We just recently watched I CAN HEAR YOUR VOICE. Both were full of twists and turns and kept me at the edge of my seat all the way through. Both of these were suggestions by my wife whose watched them each before.
I was initially dismissive of K-dramas as "Korean soap operas," and they do contain soap opera elements, such as love triangles, melodrama, sudden deaths, and that type of storytelling. But where I'd say they differ is K-dramas tend to focus more on a singular, prominent story with a handful of main characters. American soap operas (especially the daytime soaps) focus on a variety of storylines and characters.
In fairness, my comparison on K-dramas to U.S. soap operas is made from watching just two of the former. I have read about others, and they seem to follow a similar pattern of focusing primarily on a core group of characters and one pivotal over-arching story.
One strong point of the K-dramas, for me at least, is how they have a beginning, middle, and end. Everything comes full circle.
So, any fan of K-dramas?