It wasn't just that 2021 was a fantastic year for Korean content for Netflix subscribers. I only need utter three words — Squid Game, and Hellbound — to offer the reminder, which shouldn't even be ...

Romance Korean dramas are a favorite among fans. They encompass all the binge-worthy tropes of falling in love with a twist. The genre of romance K-dramas has flourished in 2021 as the streaming ...

Korean dramas were the largest consumed online video content category in Southeast Asia in 2021, according to the latest analysis published by Media Partners Asia (MPA). The MPA report, titled ...

Fans have had many new Korean dramas that showcased a female lead character’s ability to hold up a storyline from beginning to end. In 2021, K-dramas have gone out of their way to include empowering ...

The death earlier this month of Chin Doo-hwan, the most hated of South Korea’s three military dictators, who ruled for nearly a decade until 1988, is a timely reminder of the foundations of the ...

Move over, “Squid Game,” the latest Korean sensation is here. It’s called “Hellbound, and for writer/director Yeon Sang-ho, his hit Netflix show was over 20 years in the making. “I’m very pleasantly ...

When TIME first curated its list of the 10 best Korean dramas available on Netflix in 2020, Squid Game had yet to be released. Since then, the show has become the most watched non-English show of all ...

Ever since the mid-2000s, K-dramas have exploded in popularity globally, with some earning great praise, such as Boys Over ...

The show’s meteoric rise is the exclamation point on Korean media’s recent pop culture takeover, running the gamut from the global pop dominance of boy band BTS to the historic victories of Parasite ...

These days, I watch almost exclusively Korean dramas — or K-dramas, as they’re commonly called. Originating from South Korea, these shows tend to span only a single season, but they pack a lot of ...