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South Korean Soap Operas Win Large Audiences Throughout Asia — and beyond

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 May 2025

Vanessa Hua
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Seoul – Patients in hospital gowns crowded in with their IV poles. Visitors pressed against glass doors to watch. The crew hovered with lights, camera and microphone.

“Ready … cue,” the director barked, then filmed the scene of a young widow undergoing tests to give a kidney to her mother, who had abandoned her as a child.

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Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 3 , Issue 8 , August 2005 , e22
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