Screenings

The twelve-week teaching schedule: what happens in each screening, what to prepare, and what leaves the room.

Screening 1: Jewel in the Palace

The opening screening --- royal-kitchen politics, and the first pass at telling a drama's history from its invention

Week 1 · 22 February 2027

A girl group, a monster plot, and the industry underneath both

Week 2 · 1 March 2027

Romance across the DMZ, and the line between a love story and a political argument

Week 3 · 8 March 2027

A family across three generations, and what changes underneath a household that doesn't

Week 4 · 15 March 2027

A gender-disguise plot from 2007, read for its assumptions rather than its jokes

Week 5 · 22 March 2027

A contract worker's first year, and the office hierarchy the show renders in close detail

Week 6 · 29 March 2027

A satire of admissions pressure, and the real weight it's exaggerating

Week 7 · 5 April 2027

Colonial-period Korea, and the difference between a moving scene and a historical source

Week 8 · 12 April 2027

A neighbourhood's daily life under authoritarian rule, told with more warmth than politics

Week 9 · 19 April 2027

A counterfeit-luxury scam, and what its ease tells us about status and visibility rather than about "materialism" in general

Week 10 · 26 April 2027

A transformation story, and the live debate about cosmetic surgery it walks straight into

Week 11 · 3 May 2027

Compulsory service played for comedy, and what the tone choice tells us about a shared national experience

Week 12 · 10 May 2027