The Fifth Floor: K-drama craze

The Documentary Podcast

BBC

Documentary, Society & Culture

4.3 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 21 December 2024

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

K-dramas are taking the world by storm. What's the secret of their success? BBC journalists Faith Oshoko, Julie Yoonnyung Lee and Samantha Haque discuss all things K-drama and offer their recommendations for series to get stuck into during the holiday period.

Produced by Hannah Dean and Alice Gioia.

(Photo: Faranak Amidi. Credit: Tricia Yourkevich.)

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to the documentary from the BBC World Service.
0:07.7	This is the fifth floor.
0:11.5	The fifth floor, you knowsson.
0:15.6	This is the fifth floor at Farnak Amidi Sobath. This is the fifth floor at the heart of global storytelling with BBC journalists from all around the world.
0:29.0	I'm your host, Faranak Amidi.
0:36.5	Many of you listening will recognize this next sound.
0:46.0	It's the robot who decides the fate of participants in Squid Game,
0:53.6	the hit 2021 Korean TV drama series that got us
0:57.9	all glued to our screens. It's a tale of survival, and as of July this year, it is the most
1:05.0	popular non-English language television show on Netflix. The show was a global sensation, but the international popularity of Korean drama
1:14.9	didn't happen overnight.
1:17.4	From Japan to Brazil and from India to Nigeria, K-Drama fans are all over the world.
1:23.8	So what is behind the K-Drama craze?
1:27.2	And what makes a good one? To help us unpack this and offer some recommendations for shows that we can all binge over the holiday period?
1:36.4	I'm joined by three aficionados with me in the studio.
1:42.0	It's Samantha Haq from BBC World News content and Julie Jung-Yung-Lee, a BBC reporter from Seoul, who is working in London now.
1:50.5	And joining us all the way from Lagos is BBC Pigeon journalist Faith Oshoko.
1:55.6	Welcome, ladies, and super fans.
1:59.0	Hey.
1:59.0	Hello.
2:01.1	I'm really looking forward to this.
2:03.5	Julia, I'm going to start with you.
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