PD Ahn’s latest Noona romance, Midnight Romance in Hagwon has just finished airing. A new drama from the doyen of the genre has prompted the perennial question: What is a Noona romance?
Year: 2024
I review Blood Free, the latest offering from writer Lee Soo-yeon and find it… anaemic.
Is Korea’s latest Weekender secretly the most subversive of its genre? I discuss Beauty and Mr Romantic and whether its themes are potentially iconoclastic.
As Marry My Husband jumped the shark last week it provides us a good opportunity to talk about Main Character Syndrome and how the Korean drama’s real problem isn’t cheap Makjang twists and how it has killed the show dead.
Epic, bloated and sometimes total nonsense, The Dalek’s Master Plan is one of the most ambitious serials to come out of the Classic Who era. Mostly lost, it lives on in audio and is well worth a listen.
As part of the Korean science fiction series, I review a show that’s not quite science fiction – and not quite Korean either.