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K-Drama SchoolAuthor: Grace Jung
K-Drama School is hosted by comedian, writer and media scholar Grace Jung who analyzes a new Korean TV drama every week and contextualizes it according to its social, cultural and historical significance. Let Grace school you in K-Dramas! Visit kdramaschool.com to learn more. Follow @kdramaschool on Instagram and TikTok! Language: en Genres: After Shows, Comedy, Comedy Interviews, TV & Film Contact email: Get it Feed URL: Get it iTunes ID: Get it |
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K-Drama School - Ep 200: The Prescriptive Role of K-Drama Rom-Coms with Min Joo Lee
Episode 200
Sunday, 16 November, 2025
Grace has a few tour dates to announce. She will be giving a book talk on K-Drama School: A Pop Culture Inquiry into Why We Love Korean Television at Hudson Valley Books for Humanity in New York on November 21st at 5PM and another at Big Red Books in New York on November 22nd at 2PM. She’s performing at Not a Girl Not a Boy Comedy Show at Crystal Lake in Brooklyn, NY on December 1st at 7:30PM. Welcome to the 200th episode of K-Drama School podcast. Grace reflects on the journey up until now, and how she got Creme Savers at the Amish store in the Driftless in Wisconsin. Grace’s guest is professor Min Joo Lee of Occidental College. They discuss Min Joo’s new book Finding Mr. Perfect which just dropped from Rutgers University Press. Their talk includes research method, relationship with the subjects, Asian masculinity and desirability, how romantic comedies shape and influence hetero cis-masculinity, and, of course, K-dramas. Grace’s book K-Drama School: A Pop Culture Inquiry into Why We Love Korean Television is available everywhere as a hardcover, paperback, e-book and audiobook: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/grace-jung/k-drama-school/9780762485727/ Subscribe to K-Drama School on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@kdramaschool and follow @KDramaSchool on Instagram and TikTok. Visit https://www.kdramaschool.com/ to learn more. Email info@kdramaschool.com for any booking inquiries.
