StoryhogWorkplace Romances: ‘What’s wrong’ with mixing ‘Business’ and pleasure?You could say that hit K-dramas What’s Wrong with Secretary Kim and Business Proposal make romantic comedy out of workplace sexual…9 min read·Jun 8, 2024----
StoryhogFalse idols and idle hands: Why K-drama loves K-popThe K-pop industry is so ripe for storytelling. It assaults us relentlessly with an unbearably shiny, constructed and superficially…11 min read·Jun 1, 2024----
StoryhogSo, ‘Rebel Moon’ is ‘Seven Samurai in space’ … if onlyZach Snyder has sold the Rebel Moon concept, at various times in the last twenty odd years, as both ‘The Dirty Dozen in space’ and ‘Seven…8 min read·May 22, 2024----
StoryhogK-Drama Trope Bingo: Part 2The rules stay the same. Watch any sixteen-episode K-romance with your friends. Cross out every trope you spot and yell ‘bingo’ when you’ve…8 min read·May 15, 2024----
StoryhogMean boys & brutal drama: Korea gets nasty in ‘A Killer Paradox’ and ‘Extracurricular’‘Hell Joseon’ describes a South Korea caught between modern globalised economic precarity and the rigid social inequalities of the feudal…6 min read·May 9, 2024----
StoryhogWas ‘Heaven’s Gate’ bad or just too close to the bone?Any mention of Heaven’s Gate is likely to send a chill down the spines of studio executives and directors everywhere. It is over forty…7 min read·May 5, 2024----
StoryhogThe Fabulous … isn’t, but Chae Soo-bin is.Hedonism and dream chasing is the pitch for The Fabulous, but is its title ironic? Probably not, as nothing that bold is driving this…14 min read·May 2, 2024----
StoryhogK-Drama Trope Bingo: Part 1The rules are simple. You watch a sixteen-episode K-romance with your friends. Cross out every trope you spot and yell ‘bingo’ when you’ve…9 min read·Apr 21, 2024----
StoryhogYoo In-na, the meta-mistress of K-drama. ‘Touch Your Heart’ and ‘True to Love’To YouTubers and TikTokers, Yoo In-na is probably best known as music superstar IU’s (Lee Ji-eun) bestie, and to K-drama fans, perhaps, as…14 min read·Apr 16, 2024----
StoryhogFight for love: why romance is always a contestAsked to name a prototypical couple from romantic fiction, quite a few people would go for Romeo and Juliet. The ‘rose by any other name’…13 min read·Apr 3, 2024----
