Military service is compulsory in South Korea and many deem it unfair that the band’s members have been allowed to put it off.
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How the Korean Wave Has Taken India by Storm
How K-pop and K-dramas are India by storm, resulting in Korean becoming the fastest growing foreign language in India on Duolingo.
‘Bridgerton’ Brings the Regency Novel Back Into Fashion – But Did It Ever Go Away?
The brooding men and the naive women are very much there but this multi-cultural production is also aware of current issues and even music.
‘Squid Game’ is Influenced By the Horror of Survival Comics And Real-Life Debt
The popularity of the Korean show highlights our relationship to debt and capitalism, but the contradictions extend beyond the show itself.
Explainer: The Debate Around Subtitles in Netflix’s ‘Squid Game’
Despite the good quality of the English translation, a meaning gap inevitably exists between the original Korean and the English subtitles due to the untranslatable.
‘Squid Game’ Is an Allegory of Capitalist Hell
Like Parasite before it, Netflix’s survival thriller Squid Game dramatises the horrors of modern inequality and exploitation in South Korea – and shreds the capitalist myth that hard work …