K-Drama School is hosted by comedian, writer and media scholar Grace Jung who analyzes a new Korean TV drama every week and contextualizes it according to its social, cultural and historical significance. Let Grace school you in K-Dramas! Visit kdramaschool.com to learn more. Follow @kdramaschool on Instagram and TikTok!
K-Drama School – Ep 202: You and Everything Else and Pasties with Raegan Niemela
[Spoiler Alert] Grace has two upcoming shows. One is in Brooklyn at Crystal Lake on December 1st at 7:30PM. The next one is on December 18th at Sugar Maple in Milwaukee. Grace’s Thanksgiving weekend was packed. She went saltwater fishing where she proceeded to throw-up for 4 hours straight and attended her 20th year high school reunion and was pleasantly surprised. Grace discusses the show You and Everything Else written by Song Hye-jin who wrote a couple of classic Korean films including My Mother the Mermaid and My Wife Got Married. It is directed by Jo Young-min who directed one of Grace’s favorite K-dramas—The Interest of Love (check out K-Drama School episode 111 (https://www.kdramaschool.com/episodes/ep-111-the-interest-of-love-and-a-very-chewy-melodrama)). Grace’s guest today is Milwaukee-based comedian Raegan Niemela. They talk about pasties, earthy working-class womanhood, weddings, comedy, and so much more. 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/) (https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/grace-jung/k-drama-school/9780762485727/%E2%81%A0)https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/grace-jung/k-drama-school/9780762485727/ (https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/grace-jung/k-drama-school/9780762485727/) Subscribe to K-Drama School on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@kdramaschool (https://www.youtube.com/@kdramaschool) and follow @KDramaSchool on Instagram and TikTok. Visit (https://www.kdramaschool.com/) (https://www.kdramaschool.com/%E2%81%A0) (https://www.kdramaschool.com/%E2%81%A0%E2%81%A0)https://www.kdramaschool.com/ (https://www.kdramaschool.com/) to learn more. Email info@kdramaschool.com (mailto:info@kdramaschool.com) for any booking inquiries.
24 Nov 2025
K-Drama School – Ep 201: Bon Appetit Your Majesty and Light with Jason Kutz
[Spoiler Alert] Grace has a couple of show date announcements: On Monday, December 1st at 7:30PM, she’s performing at Crystal Lake in Brooklyn, New York for the Not a Boy Not a Girl Comedy Show. On Thursday, December 18th at 8PM she’s performing at The Sugar Maple in Milwaukee, Wisconsin for the Hotties Only Comedy Show. See you there. Today’s episode covers the show Bon Appetit Your Majesty (2025, tvN) based on a webtoon by Park Kuk-jae and directed by Jang Tae-yoo who worked on shows like My Love from the Star and War of Money. Grace discusses the actress Im Yoon-ah of the SM K-pop girl group Girls Generation and her performance. Grace tries to make sense of how the show fuses French cooking techniques with traditional Korean cuisine along with quantum physics. Grace’s guest is Madison-based musician and pianist Jason Kutz of Mr. Chair and Spectaculous. Grace and Jason talk about music, instruments, lightness, noodling, and so much more. Mr. Chair is playing Charlie Brown’s Christmas Special at Orpheum Theater in Madison on November 29. Be sure to catch their show. 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/) (https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/grace-jung/k-drama-school/9780762485727/%E2%81%A0)https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/grace-jung/k-drama-school/9780762485727/ (https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/grace-jung/k-drama-school/9780762485727/) Subscribe to K-Drama School on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@kdramaschool (https://www.youtube.com/@kdramaschool) and follow @KDramaSchool on Instagram and TikTok. Visit (https://www.kdramaschool.com/) (https://www.kdramaschool.com/%E2%81%A0) (https://www.kdramaschool.com/%E2%81%A0%E2%81%A0)https://www.kdramaschool.com/ (https://www.kdramaschool.com/) to learn more. Email info@kdramaschool.com (mailto:info@kdramaschool.com) for any booking inquiries.
17 Nov 2025
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/)https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/grace-jung/k-drama-school/9780762485727/ (https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/grace-jung/k-drama-school/9780762485727/%E2%81%A0) Subscribe to K-Drama School on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@kdramaschool (https://www.youtube.com/@kdramaschool) and follow @KDramaSchool on Instagram and TikTok. Visit (https://www.kdramaschool.com/) (https://www.kdramaschool.com/%E2%81%A0)https://www.kdramaschool.com/ (https://www.kdramaschool.com/%E2%81%A0%E2%81%A0) to learn more. Email info@kdramaschool.com (mailto:info@kdramaschool.com) for any booking inquiries.
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