During the ThanksGiving break, I have watched one of the most famous Korean dramas in 2019. It is Search:WWW(검색어를 입력하세요: WWW).
It is the story of three women in their late thirties — Bae Ta-mi, Cha Hyeon and Song Ga-kyeong — who work in the top two competitive web portal companies: Unicorn and Barro. Bae TaMi is the director general of the service department at a famous web portal company Unicorn. And Song Ga-kyeong is her boss. She is the CEO of Uniron. Cha Hyeon is the director general of the social department at Barro company.
In the contemporary society, everyone’s day began with searching hashtags and ended with searching hashtags. Whether it is about finding a restaurant, checking the weather or even writing an essay about specific topic, searching online can effectively solve all the problems quickly. Moreover, it is not limited by time and place and nationality. No matter what age you are and what job you do, everyone uses search bar to guide their daily life. Almost all the portal-website have their own list about the most searched hashtags so that people can find the hottest topics in this list. This list is a double-edged sword. In the story, the abducted children can be found due to the list. On the other hand, a famous star will choose to suicide because his/her personal affairs being advertised to public by the list. These most searched hashtags are not only data but also someone’s nightmare.
Also, what if someone can control the list in order to stop you from knowing the truth?
At the beginning of the drama, there was a presidential candidate being searched the most because of his love affair during the presidential election. Unicorn, the company that Bea Tami worked for, deleted the hashtag about this presidential candidate on the list so that a lot of people have no way to know about what happen. Bae Tami stated that this action violated users’ rights to see the fact and decided to leave the company. And in the end the drama, Bae Tami and her group members in the new company successfully change the whole industry’s attitude toward hashtags.
I really like this drama. This drama not only shows that women can do something great but also discuss the serious social problem because of the progress of technology. This reminds me the thing just happened in China. A really famous actor accidentally died during the recording of tv show because of the high intensity exercise and the lack of medical equipment on the scene. However, such breaking news did not appear on list the most searched hashtags at first since the tv station tried to lower the attention. Although the tv station failed in the end, this still made me think a lot.
This Korean drama is really interesting. One of the reasons that I love watching Korean drama is that it can always disclose some problems of contemporary society. This type of Korean drama makes me think a lot about current social phenomenon.
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This sounds like a really interesting korean drama! I have seen small clips taken from episodes of the drama but I don't think I've ever seen a full episode of it. I will definitely have to go check it out now--it sounds really fun! That is also really interesting that there is a parallel between a korean drama and something that happened in China.
Thank you so much for this post! I’ve been asking a lot of people for K-drama recommendations, but all the K-dramas that I found revolve around a romantic plot in a high school or college setting, and I personally don’t enjoy those plots a lot. However, the plot of this K-drama seems extremely intriguing and as a woman studying computer science I find this even more interesting. I will definitely watch this K-drama!
I always believe watching TV shows and movies is a great way to improve listening and speaking skills for your target language. At the beginning of studying Turkish, I've been struggling with basic conversations, but after watching several Turkish movies, some of those conversations became familiar to me. Also, I'm watching "Healer" recently (also a Korean drama), and I am going to watch WWW after it! Thanks for sharing!
I really like your post! It is great that people can learn more from watching dramas rather than justing killing times. I think the drama you mentioned is really instructive because it shows that women can do something great as well and it also implies some serious social problems such as some bad influences of technology. I will definitely watch this drama as well during the winter break!
Amber, are you watching this drama because of 이재욱 (Lee Jae Wook), the guy who acted as 백경 in drama 어쩌다 발견한 하루? I also watched the first two episodes of Search: WWW because 이재욱 is one of the actors. Your post makes me wanna continue watching this drama.