When Comfort is a K-Drama

2015 Korean drama series Answer 1988 One opens with five teenage friends sitting in front of a TV, filling their faces with snacks. As they proceed to taunts and jokes, the cries of their mothers reverberate through the street and call them back home for dinner. Neighbors are all separated by paths, and are shown entering houses all on the same street. It is clear that this is a daily routine; The loving familiarity, and the almost clockwork accuracy of how it all unfolds.

There’s something about such an opening sequence that hits the audience like a ton of bricks; The prime mix of nostalgia, warmth and familiarity that surrounded you from the very beginning.

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Hollywood rom-coms have long taken priority when it comes to watching ‘comfort’. Over the years, we’ve all turned to the extensive filmography of Nora Efron and Nancy Meyers for a range of choices. Over the past three years, we’ve probably overlooked a lot of the new material available, and chose to watch you’ve got Mail either 10 Things I Hate About You tenth time.

It’s a genre in which even K-dramas excel, and these swoon-worthy, frothy romances were at the fore when they became a huge success globally a few years back. Even at present, commercial offerStarring the terrifying Kim Se-jong and Ahn Hyo-sep, a month after its release, it remains on Netflix India’s top shows list.

There is another whole genre, however, that K-dramas have created their own and outstanding: the relatable comfort that goes beyond romance. This comfort revels in the everyday reality of its characters, motionless in motion, while exploring friendship, brotherhood, dreams, ambition, and more.

Too-confident teens are indecisive about parent-child relationships, friendships, sporting ambitions, and the future Answer 1988 Follows through five friends and their families who live in the neighborhood of Sangmun-dong, while having romance, what makes it really healthy is how it celebrates community bonding, support and kindness, Goes back to an era where neighbors felt like a part of the family. “There was a time when we didn’t have much, but people had warm hearts,” says Lee Hye-ri, who played the highly likable Dev-sun.

Here the sense of community is also brought alive by the women; Mothers and housewives who sit together outside the colony to gossip and prepare dinner, constantly sending food to each other’s homes, quietly helping a friend in need, and even national She also signs up to participate in a singing competition.

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We seldom see stories on-screen that go beyond nostalgia and give so much weight to the humans who carry the show forward. It’s slice-of-life perfection that writer-director duo Lee Woo-jung and Shin Won-ho also drive home. hospital playlist Chain.

the protagonists here are five doctors in their 40s and like ahjuma or older women Answer 1988, there’s real warmth, camaraderie and bonding here as they navigate their daily routines in the hospital, all while bickering over food and coming together to form a garage band. Jung Kyung-ho in particular, who plays cardiologist Joon Wan, has a ‘tough relationship’ because of all those memories he holds on to adulthood especially when he tells his weary colleague , “I’m old. I can’t do two different things on the same day.”

There’s comfort in the authenticity of friendship on both of these shows, and the fact that you don’t have to wander down an exotic street somewhere, or conquer conflicts that drive home about your affinity for one another. feel compelled to. It is this refreshing departure that makes these shows engaging while crossing the barriers of language and culture. hospital playlist It was not the only ratings success when it aired in South Korea. It also enjoyed a strong audience on Netflix where episodes were released simultaneously.

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A step ahead of friendship, the hero of brotherhood Search WWW And be melodramatic Share is something that we need to see more on-screen. If Search WWW Brings women together in shared solidarity as they pursue their career ambitions, be melodramatic Have they supported each other through relationships, grief, and their creative pursuits.

The women in both of these shows are fearless as they go up against the many curveballs thrown at them in everyday life, often reacting with dead humor about their age and circumstances. There’s a lot to sympathize with and think about, especially since we often want more for the women in our local cinema stuff.

It is people, places, and even the mundane that deal with many K-dramas in which one cannot help but seek comfort. Last year’s smash hit hometown cha-cha-chaIt may have focused on the major pairs, but there is a broader theme of healing and finding oneself.

For starters, the longest Korean entertainment was represented by cult favorites such as train to busan, old boy, maidAnd of course, recently, parasite,

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But the ‘Hallu’ wave and its sudden success in the last three years has opened the world of K-drama to many audiences globally. Platforms like Netflix and Rakuten Wiki have an extensive library of shows, along with Amazon Prime and Disney+ Hotstar.

What is it that they manage to get so right about this brand of comfort? Most often, feel-good entertainment has to be haphazardly lined up to make sure it doesn’t slip into a tempting, sacred sweet zone. On the other hand there is material which tries to mirror the society. The fact that many K-dramas manage to strike a balance between the two is why these shows are provocative, often relatable, sympathetic and most importantly, fun to enjoy.

latest in line My Liberation Notes Which follows the lives of three siblings, played by Lee Min-ki, Kim Ji-won and Lee El, as they try to break free from the shackles of monotony that has consumed their lives. Despite the themes the show deals with, it has so far been far from monotonous. There’s something about the sluggish pace and constant wonder about life that its characters indulge in, one can’t help but root for.

like other korean thrillers like squid game And we are all dead It may have been a big hit, but with enough concerns in the real world that doubles as our own personal brand of monsters, showing that instead felt like a warm blanket on a cold, dreary day. Doing is more than welcome.