Mr. Sunshine

A moving scene is not a historical source

Before you watch

  • watch the assigned episodes
  • bring one scene you found moving, and ask of it: drawn from the record, or invented for the story?

What we’re testing

We hold the drama’s two roles apart throughout: what it draws from the historical record of colonial-period Korea, and what it invents or romanticises for a nationalist story that plays well as entertainment.

Neither role disqualifies the other, but conflating them does.