Oh. Okay, thanks for explaining.
It’s always good to find out about entertainment and passtimes in cultures very different from what I know.
I’ve never been to South Korea, but
I was in Sasabo Japan, decades ago during the service.
I was treated well, but knew I would always be a ‘guest’ in their country. That’s fine with me. I behaved.
I never traveled out of this country except once crossing the border in Tijuana and traveling across Canada, which I don’t think should count.
Getting into Korean and Chinese videos has been fascinating. They’re more American than current American shows. With the old time American values. Because I used to write movie scripts, I’m totally fascinated by the writing in these shows. They do use common themes, like time travel or falling in love with robots, but they do them in ways that knock you off your chair.
Husband and I get together after watching, together or separately, and compare notes on what we’ve come to understand about cultural differences. His most frequently occurring word is “strange.” It’s become a joke that we can’t talk about a new show without that word coming up.
We now always read the news articles about the two countries, comparing the reality described in, admittedly, biased news stories, with the image that’s portrayed in the shows.