KOREAlity or Fiction: School Time!
Don’t you think studying would be more enjoyable if you’d be attending one of those K-drama colleges, surrounded by your favourite characters?
Gong Yoo and other Goblin cast members say “Merry Christmas!’
Have you been watching the Korean drama Goblin? It’s also known as Goblin: The Lonely and Great God or Guardian: The Lonely and Great God. In hangul it’s: 쓸쓸하고 찬란하神-도깨비. I wanted to share this holiday photo with you now, since I’m already a little late with it. […]
“7 year invasion 1592”: Docudrama you may never met before
KBS 한중합작 팩츄얼 드라마 <임진왜란 1592 (7 year invasion 1592)> / CCTV 中韓合拍纪录片 <万历朝鮮戰爭> (Japan) Toyotomi Hideyoshi Regime (Korea) Chosen Dynasty (China) Ming Dynasty East Asia International war, Japanese invasions of Korea (1592–1598) If you are interested in medival East asian history, you must know about this invasion. […]
K-drama Squad 38 makes tax-collecting look exciting
There are TV shows about doctors, laywers, police officers and criminals – but tax officials? Who would have thought their work could seem interesting to a TV audience? Ma Dong-seok (마동석), Seo In-Guk (서인국) and Choi Soo-young (최수영) are the stars of the drama 38사기동대 (variously translated into […]
Bonding over K-drama and Korean language learning at Chingu restaurant
The Korean restaurant I visit most often is called Chingu. Come to think of it, it’s the resto I visit most often, period. (Or point final, as one says in French.) I go there because the location is convenient for me and for the friend who introduced […]
Piggybacks, U-turns, and Noble Sacrifices
If you are a regular viewer of Korean drama, you must have noticed that there are certain events that almost always happen at some point. Some may call them cliché, or iconic, or filler. Hate them or love them, they are, in a way, “representative” of this fabulous […]
3 Funny Things about K-Dramas
When I first moved to Canada, I started realizing the fact that many people in Canada love to watch Korean dramas. One of my friends started to watch Korean dramas in grade 10, and now she is obsessed with them. When we are hanging out at the mall, we […]
