My CMS The View from a New City

I have recently become addicted to Korean language soap operas on Netflix, starting with Crash Landing on You, then It’s OK Not to be OK, and and others, and ending yesterday with Inheritors. I have been thinking about why these multi-hours long tv shows are so interesting for me. Firstly, there is no nudity or sex scenes, at least in the ones I have watched. Secondly, the well developed characters portrayed are varied: both good and evil, young and old, serious and funny, wise and foolish, profound and ridiculous, healthy and psychotic. And, finally, the issues around which these shows revolve, include but are not limited to, romance, good and evil, honesty and deceitfulness, success and failure, myth and literature, life and death, but more importantly for me, parent-child relationships and sin and redemption. There are even occasions of great philosophy and believable portrayals of a variety of professions. It is also interesting to me to have a look into the quasi-American culture which has developed in South Korea. I recommend them to anyone with time on their hands and the ability to rapidly read the subtitles.