Ep 10: Search WWW, Power Lesbians and Maseratis with Saundarya Thapa

[Spoiler Alert] In this episode of K-Drama School, Grace’s guest sidekick Julieta Degese (@dgcjulieta) makes a quick early visit to answer flashcard questions. Grace discusses the 2019 show Search WWW—the debut work of Kwon Do-eun. Search WWW is a solid queer text showcasing a lesbian love-triangle disguised as business affairs with a thin veneer of heteronormativity. This show reunites Im Soo-jung with Jeon Hye-jin from their I’m Sorry I Love You days but as strong female characters with deep complexities and greater agency. Grace then has a chat with former PhD candidate of Cinema and Media Studies at UCLA who now works at a talent agency in Los Angeles—Saundarya Thapa (@saundaryathapa). They have a deep-dive discussion of K-dramas, IU, Hyori, why there’s so much eating in Korean film and TV, why Instagram ads are so accurate, and how to overcome an impasse. Follow @KDramaSchool on Instagram, Twitter and TikTok. Visit kdramachool.com to learn more. Next week, we discuss It’s Okay to Not Be Okay (tvN, 2020).