Q&A with Grace Jung, author of K-DRAMA SCHOOL: A Pop Culture Inquiry into Why We Love Korean television
Q+A WITH GRACE JUNG Q: Which character would you love to share a meal with? A: I want to eat expensive sushi with Anna, played by Bae Suzy in Anna , to praise her guts and glory. Q: What’s your go-to comfort rewatch? A: Reply 1988 has so many familiar adolescent growing pains and joys that I relate to. Q: Which dramas […]
K-DRAMA SCHOOL: A Pop-Culture Inquiry into Why We Love Korean Television, Grace Jung
From the Emmy Award-winning Squid Game to streaming sensations like The Glory and Crash Landing on You, Korean television has emerged onto the global pop culture scene as compelling television—but what exactly makes these shows so irresistibly bingeable? And what can we learn about our societies and ourselves from watching them? From stand-up comedian and media studies PhD Grace Jung […]
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Grace Jung Grace Jung is an internationally touring stand-up comedian, writer, filmmaker, scholar and actor who is in season 4 of The Joe Schmo Show on TBS. Grace is the author of the novel Deli Ideology, and the novella The Moon Hangs Like a Stupid Mistake published by Thought Catalog. Grace’s short fiction is published in The Cortland Review and Molotov Cocktail. […]
K DRAMA SCHOOL, Grace Jung
Korean American stand-up comedian, author and podcaster Grace Jung wields her PhD in Cinema and Media Studies to write an irreverent history of serialized Korean TV dramas like Squid Game and Extraordinary Attorney Woo—a pop culture phenomenon contributing to Korea’s multibillion-dollar entertainment industry now linked to media conglomerates such as Disney, Netflix and Apple TV+, analyzing everything from […]