Mark Tetto's Column On Korea's 'Senior Content' Aside From K-Pop Together With K-Dramas
Sunday 27 March 2022
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Mark Tetto
JTBC 'Abnormal Summit' panelist
Column: [Abnormal Eyes of Mark Tetto] Korea's 'senior content' which is equally precious equally K-Pop together with K-dramas
Internationally, Korea is highly recognized for its cultural contents. It became known globally past times exporting K-Pop together with dramas. Korea is less known equally a province together with it's too at a unique location alongside a novel genre 'senior content'. Last month, I attended Seoul Senior Film Festival together with learned that Korea was the leader of this detail genre. Seoul Senior Film Festival shows 2 types of films. One is close the lives together with problems of seniors. Another ane is a cinema created together with directed past times seniors themselves. This interesting cinema festival was celebrating its ninth year. The fact that this interesting content has been produced for nine years is really surprising.
Since this cinema festival, I started to reckon Korea's cultural contents I've experienced differently. During this process, I flora a really interesting fact. A lot of Korea's contents that I've liked were associated alongside seniors. My most favorite cinema 'I Love You' is close the solitude, love, together with joy of a senior couple. It's ane of the few films that never neglect to brand me cry. A cinema 'Poetry' directed past times a manager Lee Chang Dong is a unique storey on a senior woman's struggles together with finding a novel beloved for poetry. This cinema portrays that a life itself is a beautiful poem. 'Poetry' won an honor at Cannes Film Festival together with gained international attention.
Another interesting fact is that a lot of Korea's contents that gained the highest reputation internationally are too related to seniors. 'My Love, Don't Cross That River' is ane of the rare Korean films that are displayed visibly equally recommended movies on Apple TV. A novel 'Please Look After Mom' is notwithstanding a locomote that is the most appreciated together with praised internationally.
Without knowing it, Korea's 'senior content' is quietly leading on the global stage. While K-Pop together with K-dramas present the beauty of the youth, the senior content is based on the unique Confucian civilization together with makes us reverberate on our lives. It agency that Korea is voicing a unique reckon on social issues related to seniors on the global stage. It must hold out the argue why the footing finds Korea's senior content charming together with great. Like K-Pop together with K-dramas, senior content is too a cultural genre that Korea should hold out proud of. It has huge potentials to acquire a cultural legacy that volition stand upward for Korea. We must acknowledge this openly together with occur expanding it.