K-Drama School - Ep 200: The Prescriptive Role of K-Drama Rom-Coms with Min Joo Lee

Grace has a few tour dates to announce. She will be giving a book talk on K-Drama School: A Pop Culture Inquiry into Why We Love Korean Television at Hudson Valley Books for Humanity in New York on November 21st at 5PM and another at Big Red Books in New York on November 22nd at 2PM. She’s performing at Not a Girl Not a Boy Comedy Show at Crystal Lake in Brooklyn, NY on December 1st at 7:30PM. Welcome to the 200th episode of K-Drama School podcast. Grace reflects on the journey up until now, and how she got Creme Savers at the Amish store in the Driftless in Wisconsin. Grace’s guest is professor Min Joo Lee of Occidental College. They discuss Min Joo’s new book Finding Mr. Perfect which just dropped from Rutgers University Press. Their talk includes research method, relationship with the subjects, Asian masculinity and desirability, how romantic comedies shape and influence hetero cis-masculinity, and, of course, K-dramas. Grace’s book K-Drama School: A Pop Culture Inquiry into Why We Love Korean Television is available everywhere as a hardcover, paperback, e-book and audiobook: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/grace-jung/k-drama-school/9780762485727/⁠⁠ Subscribe to K-Drama School on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@kdramaschool and follow @KDramaSchool on Instagram and TikTok. Visit ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.kdramaschool.com/⁠⁠⁠ to learn more. Email [email protected] for any booking inquiries.