Fifth Cultural Post

[Hongzhen Chen]

I am thinking about choosing Korean Dramas as the topic of my culture project. Korean drama is not only something about handsome/pretty idols, it also reflects the belief and values of the current Korean generation as well as the targeted audience. For example, we can see that he topics of Korean dramas have changed a lot in the past 20 years, In the 1990s, most of the dramas were about cancer, car accidents, and sad stories. However nowadays Korean dramas become more positive and have more funny plots. Also more and more dramas focus on the areas of high technology, aliens, doctors and wars. Korean drama develops as the generation changes and it also shows the current trend of the country. Thus I think it would be cool to find the cultural and historical currency behind Korean dramas.