WHAT IS KOREAN DRAMA?


Korean drama popularly called Kdrama, it is a form of entertainment in Korea, and it has spread across the globe and the world. Korean dramas are television series made in South Korea which comprises of the Korean language, Korean gestures, Korean Cuisine,Korean fashion to mention a few.

People often wonder why the Korean drama is popular worldwide, well this bores down to the popular spread of the Korean popular culture popularly known as hallyu wave or Korean wave. The reason why people have accepted Kdrama and are in love with kdrama is because of its captivating plots, beautiful sceneries, beautiful cast, and also because it is available and can be accessed through streaming platforms. These streaming platforms provide language subtitle for the watcher.


The Korean drama has different episodes which are based on the drama story line, director and the scriptwriter,  sometimes it’s from 12 episodes to 24 episodes and even more, there are mini Kdrama in form of web series which might be about six episodes. 


You can have direct access to the latest kdramas through the Korean networks that you can visit or subscribe to, most popular ones are (SBS) Seoul broadcasting system, (KBS) Korean broadcasting system, (TVN)  Total Variety network, (JTBC) Joongang Tongyang broadcasting company etc. Some of this on cable channels and on YouTube you can subscribe to them and have access to them from any part of the world.

In other words, the drama is available to anybody who has access to the streaming platforms such as Netflix, Asian wiki, TVN, SBC, Youtube etc some of this have their presence on YouTube such as KBS. Also, there are different online sites that people can also assess Korean drama.

Korean drama has several genres like romance dramas, action dramas, medical dramas, Legal dramas, comedy-drama, thriller drama, to mention a few. The most popular Korean drama includes Boys over flower, winter sonata, Jumong, The heirs, Love from another star, stairways to heaven, Guardian; the lonely and great God, Full House, Crash landing on you, Iris, coffee Prince, Rooftop Prince, personal taste, It is okay not to be okay, Itaewon class, Sky castle, reply 1988, goblin, the world of the married, hundred days my prince, Stranger, Lawless lawyer, Truths, Juliets man, life is beautiful, Autumn in my heart, secret, secret garden, a man called God, My girlfriend is Gumiho, etc. One of the things that people enjoy and K drama is the original soundtrack popular called OST.

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