Ahahaha, this is so funny and kinda adorbs as well, that a K-drama from TWO DECADES ago is still the favorite of one country and it’s not even the country where it’s from! This week a new K-ent poll was released conducted globally asking viewers from countries around the world their favorite Korean stuff. On the list was of course K-dramas and every single country polled had Squid Game as its favorite K-drama and by a huge margin over the second place vote getter, other than Japan. In the land of the rising sun, the OG grandfather of Hallyu dramas Winter Sonata is still the fave and considering it aired twenty years ago is quite a feat. I can’t decide if its because WS truly has that longevity or simply J-viewers have a hard time moving on from it.
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Twenty years? Seriously, twenty years! Who would have thunk it and who here remembers living through this entire experience which kick started the Hallyu era. Today on January 14th, 2022 marks the exact 20th anniversary of the date Winter Sonata … Continue reading
Call me sentimental but I’m actually looking forward to Winter Sonata 2 scheduled for next year in 2021. It’s being billed as a 20th anniversary homage to the Hallyu hit original which aired in 2001, and OMG I still remember … Continue reading
I think this is a terrible idea unless it’s a reboot set in an alternative universe. K-drama gods have apparently decided to kick into gear the long percolating project for a second season of the mega hit 2002 drama Winter … Continue reading
I’m going to call Song Hye Kyo the Queen of KBS from now on, and it’s even more impressive that she’s achieved this level of one-two kill 16 years apart. KBS ran its own poll recently polling 1000 random viewers … Continue reading
The end of an era for the K-drama wave has arrived in one country that has been a huge consumer of Hallyu products for well over a decade- Japanese broadcaster NHK has announced that it won’t be airing anymore Korean … Continue reading
As the title clearly indicates, this is a companion piece to the post I did about the memorable and heart-warming parental figures in K-dramas.
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