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Secret Childhood Connection in K-Drama
If you’re new to K-drama and having a hard time predicting who the heroine will end up with, there’s a trick to identifying the winner. Her true love will be announced well in advance through a series of flashbacks revealing that the hero and the heroine knew each other as children, but have been separated for decades. Western viewers thrill to the idea of finding the needle of true love in the global haystack. But K-drama viewers know true love is based on a secret childhood connection.
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K-Drama Tropes
As the mother of a teenager, it is perhaps inevitable that Korean pop culture would become a critical component of my media consumption. The year 2019 began with my introduction to Webtoon and my headfirst dive into manwha. The year ended with a nearly OCD buy-in of K-Drama.
