South Korea, 2006. The year of SBS’s Alone in Love, MBC’s Princess Hours, and KBS2’s The Snow Queen. Outside the small screen, the country was fascinated by Vincent & Co., a legendary Swiss watch company whose exclusive, luxurious timepieces had been beloved by European royals for over a century. Behind fancy launch parties, celebrity endorsements,…
K-dramas
9 Brand New K-dramas Coming Out in March 2026!
These new 9 K-dramas coming out in March 2026 herald an incredibly entertaining spring. From thrillers to romances (and sometimes even a mix of both!), March promises to be a month full of exciting adventures. Which of these new Korean dramas are you planning to watch next month? We’ll be updating this post with trailers,…
Pro Bono: A Masterfully Crafted Manifesto for a Fairer World
As we live in such a dark and unfair world, we sometimes forget how powerful a good story can be. A good story can not only offer us solace and hope, but also serve as a protest, a frustrated scream against a system that protects the powerful and stifles the powerless. That’s the kind of…
What K-dramas Are You Watching in February 2026?
After a January full of long-awaited releases, 2026 finds its rhythm with eight thrilling Korean dramas coming out in the next few weeks. These new K-dramas coming out in February 2026 promise to suit all tastes: from legal dramas to thrillers, melodramas to rom-coms, the upcoming month has it all! We’ll be updating this post…
Can This Love Be Translated?: A Dazzling, Chaotic Case of False Expectations
Marketing a film or series is a tricky, complex art. You may have an extraordinary piece of cinematic art in your hands, but without the right promotion strategy, very few people might get to experience it. The production team needs to define their target audience and have a clear vision of their story’s tone and…
Cashero: The Superpower of Plot Contrivance
If I were to think of a superpower that could best describe Netflix’s Cashero, it wouldn’t be super strength or telekinesis (i.e. the ability to move objects at a distance). No, the most important superpower in Cashero certainly is the writers’ ability to design an entire series purely based on convenience. An incredibly loose adaptation…
The First 8 Extraordinary K-dramas of 2026 Are Here!
2026 arrives with some eagerly awaited Korean dramas. After all, we’ve been looking forward to Netflix’s Can This Love Be Translated? and SBS’s No Tail to Tell for over a year, haven’t we? With these 8 new, exciting K-dramas coming out in January 2026, we’re about to get the new year off on the right…
Year In Review: The Amazing (& Not-So-Amazing) Korean Dramas of 2025
As the year comes to a close, we ought to look back at 2025 and find the stories that made this year shine. Just like any other year, 2025 was a year of surprises and disappointments, of joys and sorrows. Korean content stole the spotlight for a considerable chunk of the year, thanks to the…
The Dream Life of Mr Kim: An Extraordinarily Humane Character Study
What’s your dream life? Maybe it’s a solid career, lots of money, a happy marriage, or travelling around the world? We all have different ideas when it comes to the ideal existence on this big planet Earth, but some goals are more common than others. For instance, in JTBC’s The Dream Life of Mr Kim,…
Typhoon Family: An Adorable(ish) Blend of Murphy’s Law & Groundhog Day
“Anything that can go wrong will go wrong.” That’s what Murphy’s law dictates. But maybe we could change it to Typhoon’s law, after tvN’s charmingly histrionic Typhoon Family, which took over Saturday and Sunday evenings from October to November 2025. Directed by Lee Na-jung and penned by rookie writer Jang Hyeon-suk, Typhoon Family feels like…
