When TIME first curated its list of the 10 best Korean dramas available on Netflix in 2020, Squid Game had yet to be released. Since then, the show has become the most watched non-English show of all ...

March 7, 2022 – 2020 and 2021 were genuinely magical years for the South Korean entertainment industry, with successes abroad on online-streaming platforms such as Netflix. Naturally, with Covid-19 ...

“Crash Landing on You” was my gateway Korean drama. Netflix's story of a South Korean heiress who accidentally gets caught inside North Korea and the military officer who risks it all to help her had ...

K-dramas are next in line to ride the Korean wave—or hallyu—the phenomenon where South Korean culture takes the world by storm. Korean shows are watched in more than 30 languages on the streamer, ...

The first time Kim Eun-hee tried to write a love story, the film flopped. “I realized that romance wasn’t working for me,” she said. It’s not surprising – the South Korean screenwriter famed for ...

But Squid Game isn’t a total anomaly. The Korean series is one chapter in a larger story with its own name and history: a seismic, ongoing shift in the global entertainment landscape known as Hallyu.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Joan Vos MacDonald is a New York-based writer who covers Korean media. Name a hit Korean drama airing now—or one that fared well ...