
That’s not to say that great Korean TV is a recent development.

Pay channels such as tvN and JTBC, as well as newcomer-to-Korea Netflix, are producing scripted and reality television that can comfortably slide in next to international prestige shows. But like the poor girls of old-school melodramas who Cinderella-ed up the social hierarchy, Korean TV has acquired fancy new trappings in recent years thanks to international licensing fees and the development of South Korea’s domestic-cable networks. audiences earlier this decade, it was primarily pitched as an addictive guilty pleasure. When Korean TV first came to the wider attention of U.S.
