The Melodramatic Mundane in South Korean Television
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While scholarship on South Korean screen culture has focused on melodrama as the dominant narrative mode, I argue that K-dramas since the mid-2010s have become increasingly invested in mundane, everyday practices such as cleaning, cooking, and commuting. Yet, these K-dramas do not jettison the melodramatic plot. Rather, they use an overdrawn plot and affect to spotlight the broader social, political, and economic forces that constrain everyday life, in order to explore how the uneventful work of daily life can contest, even transform, those forces. Theorizing an emergent mode of South Korean television that I call the “melodramatic mundane,” this paper reads K-dramas within the context of everyday life studies and sociological analyses of precarity in South Korea. After a brief survey of the programming trend, I examine Because This Is My First Life (2017) and My Mister (2018) as two case studies to explore how and why everyday life has emerged as a distinct problem in contemporary South Korea.
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While scholarship on South Korean screen culture has focused on melodrama as the dominant narrative mode, I argue that K-dramas since the mid-2010s have become increasingly invested in mundane, everyday practices such as cleaning, cooking, and commuting. Yet, these K-dramas do not jettison the melodramatic plot. Rather, they use an overdrawn plot and affect to spotlight the broader social, political, and economic forces that constrain everyday life, in order to explore how the uneventful work of daily life can contest, even transform, those forces. Theorizing an emergent mode of South Korean television that I call the “melodramatic mundane,” this paper reads K-dramas within the context of everyday life studies and sociological analyses of precarity in South Korea. After a brief survey of the programming trend, I examine Because This Is My First Life (2017) and My Mister (2018) as two case studies to explore how and why everyday life has emerged as a distinct problem in contemporary South Korea.
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