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From KQED.

Welcome to Forum.

I'm Grace Juan in Fermina Kim.

If TV rots the brain, author Grace Jung argues her brain should be mush.

That's because for her Ph.D. dissertation in cinema and media studies,

Jung watched 10,000 hours of Korean television.

She distills the lessons she learned in her new book, K-Drama School,

a pop culture inquiry into why we love Korean television.

We'll talk to Jung about rom-coms, squid game, and the satisfaction found in slapping someone across the face with kimchi.

That's all coming up next after this news. Welcome to Forum. I'm Grace Juan in Fermina Kim.

Korean dramas have been around since the advent of television, but thanks to streaming services,

the rest of the world has come to appreciate the high production values, the melodrama,

and the talents of Halu actors who populate the K-drama universe. But why are K-dramas so popular,

and why do zombies, amnesia, and leukemia often figure into their plot lines?

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