Question:“On dramas that smell of home”
On dramas that smell of home
Korea’s long stories never leave out the dinner table, the alley, and the family. That is why they smell of home wherever they are watched.
Three descend. Each comes from a different decade. Start with the one that overlaps the years you have lived.
- Sandglass (Kim Jong-hak, 1995)Streets emptied at broadcast time, and it was called the clock that sent people home.
- Dae Jang Geum (Lee Byung-hoon, 2003)A story that began in a palace kitchen reached dinner tables across Asia.
- Reply 1988 (Shin Won-ho, 2015)One alley in Ssangmun-dong holds the whole warmth of an era.
Hestia kept the hearth, and every house had that fire.