Why is Studio Dragon such a strong force in Japan s 4th South Korean drama boom?
February 22, 2021 (Mainichi Japan)
A scene from Crash Landing on You (C) Studio Dragon Corporation TOKYO The fourth South Korean drama boom in Japan looks likely to retain momentum in 2021, with the mega hit Crash Landing on You serving as the catalyst for many people to start watching South Korean dramas. In fact, I m one of them. While watching works that people were talking about, I noticed that many of them were created by Studio Dragon Corp., a production company founded in 2016 based in Seoul. What is the secret behind this single production company that has produced a string of hit dramas? I tried to dig deep for answers by tracing the history of South Korean dramas.
Jan 20, 2021
“Perfect Strangers,” the 2016 hit Italian comedy, had inspired 18 remakes by July 2019, a feat recognized by Guinness World Records.
The four versions of the film I’ve seen Korean, French, Japanese and the original by Paolo Genovese are all entertaining enough. But the setup three couples and one single man agree to share each other’s smartphone text and voice messages as a sort of “truth or dare” game at a dinner party is hardly groundbreaking, if clever. A compromising email is just a modern version of a letter that elicits laughs when read aloud on stage, a convention going back to Plautus, the Neil Simon of ancient Rome.