THEY’RE EVERYWHERE!

Sometimes I do something that isn’t connected to Kdramas…just sometimes. I just finished a science fiction book recommended to me by my daughter called ‘The Ministry of Time’. It has absolutely nothing to do with Kdramas, K-pop, Korean culture, yadda yadda yadda, but on page 153 the author mentions Kdramas. Really.

Here is the quote from page 153:

“Oh yes? What are they showing?”

“Films from the land of Korea,” she said. “They place the script in English at the base of the screen so that we might follow. I have seen many romances.”

Kaliane Bradley, the author, was born in England to a British father and a Cambodian mother. I don’t know much about her except what I have read on Wikipedia. The fact that she mentions Kdramas in this book is amazing to me. This book is a fictional account of what happened to one of doomed voyagers on the failed exploration to find a passage through the Canadian Arctic in 1845. Time travel is involved. Hence the Kdrama mention. (See, I told you reading about Kdramas was a stretch.)

So here is my point: Kdramas are EVERYWHERE, even in books about time travel that don’t have anything remotely Korean in them. I find this fascinating. In some crazy way it connects me to everyone else on the planet who watch Kdramas. Oh oh, I’m getting a little woo woo even for me! ~ Pat

I get that Twilight Zone feeling whenever I notice something in real life that is also in Kdramas. I always wonder who else is noticing it besides me? To some degree I found Kpop Demon Hunters like that... they featured little tidbits of Kdrama stuff that 'regular folks' might not have noticed. We have our own secret world out there.... except it's becoming less of a secret! ~ Judy