In 2020, when New Zealand went into its first lockdown, my husband Tom and I started watching a lot of Netflix. On a FaceTime call with his old friend Magui in New York, he mentioned we’d just watched a Japanese series. “Japanese?” she said. “Have you watched anything Korean yet?” Magui’s entire Netflix list was made up of Korean drama, Tom told me, but I doubted this was possible.
Oh, it’s possible. Almost 18 months later, my, to publish my articles and reviews. This summer I’m taking a Korean language course.
