‘K-Pop Dreaming takes a look back at k-pop’s influences. LAist K-pop is everywhere these days, but that wasn’t the case when Vivian Yoon was growing up in the 90s and 2000s. She listened t...
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Inspired By K-Dramas The Novel ‘Liar, Dreamer, Thief’ Subverts Genre
‘Liar, Dreamer, Thief’ introduces a very different detective in Katrina Kim. Grand Central Publishing Katrina Kim, the heroine of Maria Dong’s novel Liar, Dreamer Thief, is obsessed with h...
Lisa See’s ‘The Island Of Sea Women’ Is Set To Become A K-Drama
The term ‘haenyeo’, or ‘sea women’, refers to women who use free-diving techniques to retrieve shell … [+] fish from the sea floor. (ED JONES/AFP via Getty Images) AFP vi...
Director Iris Shim Considers The Mothers And Monsters In Her Film ‘Umma’
Sandra Oh plays Amanda in the film ‘Umma.’ Sony Pictures At the start of our conversation about the horror film Umma—the title is the Korean word for mother—writer-director Iris K. Shim is...