Because This Is My First Life Ep. 5-8: Dreams And Disappointments
Because This Is My First Life focused heavily on social issues in its first four episodes, dealing with heavy topics like patriarchy and adverse workin…
Drama
The Temperature of Love, Ep.1-9: A Sweet but Slow-Burning Story
The Temperature of Love is not a drama that attempts to tackle intense themes or leave its viewers mulling over its storylines. Yet what this show may …
Witch’s Courtroom, Ep. 1-6: The Devil Wears Non-Branded Clothing
The second week of October was rife with new rom-com titles. Out of the bunch, Witch's Courtroom caught my eye because of the two things: one, that…
Because This Is My First Life, Ep 1-4: Patriarchy Sucks
The promotion for Because This Is My First Life sets the series up with a classic K-drama trope: innocent cohabitation. The premise has been used with …
Suicide in K-Dramas: How Have They Changed?
South Korea ranks at one of the highest suicide rates in the industrialized world, and even held the number one place for 8 consecutive years up until …
Will The Real Rom-Com Queen Please Stand Up?
Rom-coms are a staple in my K-drama diet as a hopeless romantic. Those frothy, light, fluffy, sugary delights of entertainment are my not so really gui…
Falling in Love with the Second Leads
Unrequited love – a concept not foreign in the world of romantic K-dramas. We’re all used to the conventional character who tries his best but doesn’t …
Andante, Ep.1-3: A Family Comedy Wrapped in Death
Although marketed as coming-of-age story featuring Kai of Exo as the lead, Andante also contains a family-based plot line with the running theme of…
Save Me, Ep. 11-16: Earn Your Happy Ending?
The previous installments of Save Me chronicle a dark series about a cult and its leaders. The final set of episodes wrap up the plots in an imperf…
School 2017: A Place of Heart, Hope, and Healing
A cheerful, bumbling female lead with bad grades and lofty dreams of getting into the university where her first love oppa studies. A rebellious, motor…