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KOREAN
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KOREAN
Carries a strong pull into film through after-hours and longing.
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Squid Game
Carries a strong pull into books through power and East Asia.
Television
The Glory
Carries a strong pull into books through power and East Asia.
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The Glory
2020s
A woman meticulously plans revenge on her school bullies decades later. K-drama revenge thriller.
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The Vegetarian
2000s
A woman stops eating meat. Her family reacts with increasing violence. Body, autonomy, and refusal.
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The Handmaiden
2010s
A con man, a pickpocket, and a Japanese heiress in 1930s Korea. Desire and deception.
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Squid Game
2020s
Desperate debtors play deadly children's games. Capitalism, survival, and viral spectacle.
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Books 2010s
Human Acts
The Gwangju massacre told through multiple voices. State violence and its afterlife in the body.
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Film 2010s
Parasite
Class warfare as architectural thriller. The family that infiltrates another.
Television 2020s
My Liberation Notes
Three siblings in a rural Korean town search for meaning. Quiet K-drama as existential meditation.
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Books 2000s
The Hen Who Dreamed She Could Fly
A hen escapes the coop and raises a duckling. Korean fable about freedom and motherhood.
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Film 2000s
Memories of Murder
South Korea's first serial killer case. Procedural dread and institutional failure.
Television 2020s
Extraordinary Attorney Woo
A brilliant autistic lawyer tackles cases in Seoul. K-drama meets courtroom procedural.