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. […]