I spent my Monday morning watching a Korean soap opera with my new naked Korean friends at a Korean spa on 6th Street. It really was my only hope after spending a LOVELY if not overly meat-filled ...

A North Korean man smokes a cigarette in front of a poster for the 11th Pyongyang International Film Festival in North Korea in September 2008David Guttenfelder / AP For Myung Chul Jin, 43, a recently ...

North Korea has reportedly publicly executed up at least 50 people this year, including several party officials for watching soap operas. According to South Korea’s National Intelligence Service (NIS) ...

Produced by Anthony Chen, this Oscar-submitted Singaporean offering gives likable TV veteran Hong Huifang an opportunity to reach beyond her character's small-screen daydreams. Mrs. Lim’s life is ...

A 1990s' "K-Drama" now seems oddly prescient. As if the presidential cronyism scandal gripping South Korea couldn't get any more soap-operatic, it turns out the shadowy ties between Korea's future ...

In the cramped space of AsiaStar Fantasy, a video store that specializes in Chinese cinema in a predominantly Chinese neighborhood, DVDs of flashy Korean soap operas like “Jewel in the Palace” and ...

In a soap opera series aired recently in North Korea, there was no divorce, cheating, or shocking revelations of dark secrets. Instead, the lead characters’ struggle was tied to a more unusual cause: ...

Call me shallow, but the only way I’m getting through this COVID crisis (besides staying put) is to binge watch South Korean soap operas on Netflix. Hours upon hours of the stuff. Rom-coms. Dramas.

A group of Chinese fans of Korean soap operas have gone very public in response to a study published last year that suggested Chinese viewers of Korean "dramas" tend to be at the lower end of the ...

As if the presidential cronyism scandal gripping South Korea couldn't get any more soap-operatic, it turns out the shadowy ties between Korea's future president and a self-proclaimed shaman were ...