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With so many shows to produce, sometimes shot and edited the same week theyвЂ™re released, K-dramas traditionally havenвЂ™t depended on cinematography to keep viewers engaged, instead firmly emphasizing the showвЂ™s story. South Korea produces a lot of scripted and unscripted television for a country with a population of just over 50 million people.

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K-drama, as Korean scripted television is called whether itвЂ™s drama or comedy, existed long before NetflixвЂ™s Kingdom (premiering January 25) began production, is frequently richer than The Good DoctorвЂ™s source material, and has everything to do with how the structure of Korean TV allows for unparalleled emotional payoff. ThatвЂ™s not to say that great Korean TV is a recent development. Pay channels such as tvN and JTBC, as well as newcomer-to-Korea Netflix, are producing scripted and reality television that can comfortably slide in next to international prestige shows. But like the poor girls of old-school melodramas who Cinderella-ed up the social hierarchy, Korean TV has acquired fancy new trappings in recent years thanks to international licensing fees and the development of South KoreaвЂ™s domestic-cable networks. audiences earlier this decade, it was primarily pitched as an addictive guilty pleasure. When Korean TV first came to the wider attention of U.S.

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