Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Joan Vos MacDonald is a New York-based writer who covers Korean media. Although 2020 will make the history books for all the wrong ...

2020 has been a whirlwind of surprises whether good or bad, and most of us are probably glad to bid goodbye to the year that was. But in K-dramaland, the last year has produced some of the best dramas ...

Korean dramas – or K-dramas as they are more commonly called – have come a long way since my parents’ days. In the 1980s and 1990s, just about every Korean-owned grocery store in the U.S. had a little ...

March 7, 2022 – 2020 and 2021 were genuinely magical years for the South Korean entertainment industry, with successes abroad on online-streaming platforms such as Netflix. Naturally, with Covid-19 ...

This Valentine's Day, grab a box of tissues and be prepared to shed a tear — or several. Because the nuanced, slow-paced storylines of Korean dramas have emerged as a poignant alternative to Hollywood ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Joan Vos MacDonald is a New York-based writer who covers Korean media. In some versions of Mulan’s story, her comrades never ...

“Crash Landing on You” was my gateway Korean drama. Netflix's story of a South Korean heiress who accidentally gets caught inside North Korea and the military officer who risks it all to help her had ...

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 ...

If you haven't already been sucked into the Korean drama craze (ahem, Squid Game), first, what have you even been doing? And second, 2023 is as good a time as ever to get started, 'cause there are SO ...