In an archival video from July 27, 1953, the day the Korean Armistice Agreement was signed and came into effect, Korean children and a teacher can be seen carrying textbooks delive.
After 20-odd years spent peddling and polishing words in Hong Kong, Stephen McCarty now resides in Britain, from where he scribbles, daydreams and laments the state of the world.
A struggling academic gets caught up in Korea’s criminal underbelly in action-drama A Model Family, while wannabe cooks face a less abrasive Gordon Ramsay in culinary boot camp show Future Food Stars.
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A Model Family, Netflix's latest Korean original offering, dovetails two of the country's most popular genres, the family melodrama and the gangster saga. The tears of the former meld with the blood of the latter in a story that revolves around a bag of money and the succession of bad decisions it inspires. The title is, of course, a.