K-Drama School - Ep 10: Search WWW, Power Lesbians and Maseratis with Saundarya Thapa

Published: March 8, 2021, 8 a.m.

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[Spoiler Alert] In this episode of K-Drama School, Grace\\u2019s guest sidekick Julieta Degese (@dgcjulieta) makes a quick early visit to answer flashcard questions. Grace discusses the 2019 show Search WWW\\u2014the debut work of Kwon Do-eun. Search WWW is a solid queer text showcasing a lesbian love-triangle disguised as business affairs with a thin veneer of heteronormativity. This show reunites Im Soo-jung with Jeon Hye-jin from their I\\u2019m Sorry I Love You days but as strong female characters with deep complexities and greater agency. Grace then has a chat with former PhD candidate of Cinema and Media Studies at UCLA who now works at a talent agency in Los Angeles\\u2014Saundarya Thapa (@saundaryathapa). They have a deep-dive discussion of K-dramas, IU, Hyori, why there\\u2019s so much eating in Korean film and TV, why Instagram ads are so accurate, and how to overcome an impasse. Follow @KDramaSchool on Instagram, Twitter and TikTok. Visit kdramachool.com to learn more. Next week, we discuss It\\u2019s Okay to Not Be Okay (tvN, 2020).

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