K-Drama School

Grace Jung
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K-Drama School is hosted by comedian, writer and media scholar Grace Jung who analyzes a new Korean TV drama every week and contextualizes it according to its social, cultural and historical significance. Let Grace school you in K-Dramas! Visit kdramaschool.com to learn more. Follow @kdramaschool on Instagram and TikTok!

  1. 01/12/2025

    K-Drama School – Ep 202: You and Everything Else and Pasties with Raegan Niemela

    [Spoiler Alert] Grace has two upcoming shows. One is in Brooklyn at Crystal Lake on December 1st at 7:30PM. The next one is on December 18th at Sugar Maple in Milwaukee. Grace’s Thanksgiving weekend was packed. She went saltwater fishing where she proceeded to throw-up for 4 hours straight and attended her 20th year high school reunion and was pleasantly surprised. Grace discusses the show You and Everything Else written by Song Hye-jin who wrote a couple of classic Korean films including My Mother the Mermaid and My Wife Got Married. It is directed by Jo Young-min who directed one of Grace’s favorite K-dramas—The Interest of Love (check out K-Drama School episode 111). Grace’s guest today is Milwaukee-based comedian Raegan Niemela. They talk about pasties, earthy working-class womanhood, weddings, comedy, and so much more. Grace’s book K-Drama School: A Pop Culture Inquiry into Why We Love Korean Television is available everywhere as a hardcover, paperback, e-book and audiobook: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/grace-jung/k-drama-school/9780762485727/⁠⁠ Subscribe to K-Drama School on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@kdramaschool and follow @KDramaSchool on Instagram and TikTok. Visit ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.kdramaschool.com/⁠⁠⁠ to learn more. Email info@kdramaschool.com for any booking inquiries.

    1h 37m

  2. 24/11/2025

    K-Drama School – Ep 201: Bon Appetit Your Majesty and Light with Jason Kutz

    [Spoiler Alert] Grace has a couple of show date announcements: On Monday, December 1st at 7:30PM, she’s performing at Crystal Lake in Brooklyn, New York for the Not a Boy Not a Girl Comedy Show. On Thursday, December 18th at 8PM she’s performing at The Sugar Maple in Milwaukee, Wisconsin for the Hotties Only Comedy Show. See you there. Today’s episode covers the show Bon Appetit Your Majesty (2025, tvN) based on a webtoon by Park Kuk-jae and directed by Jang Tae-yoo who worked on shows like My Love from the Star and War of Money. Grace discusses the actress Im Yoon-ah of the SM K-pop girl group Girls Generation and her performance. Grace tries to make sense of how the show fuses French cooking techniques with traditional Korean cuisine along with quantum physics. Grace’s guest is Madison-based musician and pianist Jason Kutz of Mr. Chair and Spectaculous. Grace and Jason talk about music, instruments, lightness, noodling, and so much more. Mr. Chair is playing Charlie Brown’s Christmas Special at Orpheum Theater in Madison on November 29. Be sure to catch their show. Grace’s book K-Drama School: A Pop Culture Inquiry into Why We Love Korean Television is available everywhere as a hardcover, paperback, e-book and audiobook: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/grace-jung/k-drama-school/9780762485727/⁠⁠ Subscribe to K-Drama School on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@kdramaschool and follow @KDramaSchool on Instagram and TikTok. Visit ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.kdramaschool.com/⁠⁠⁠ to learn more. Email info@kdramaschool.com for any booking inquiries.

    1h 22m

  3. 17/11/2025

    K-Drama School - Ep 200: The Prescriptive Role of K-Drama Rom-Coms with Min Joo Lee

    Grace has a few tour dates to announce. She will be giving a book talk on K-Drama School: A Pop Culture Inquiry into Why We Love Korean Television at Hudson Valley Books for Humanity in New York on November 21st at 5PM and another at Big Red Books in New York on November 22nd at 2PM. She’s performing at Not a Girl Not a Boy Comedy Show at Crystal Lake in Brooklyn, NY on December 1st at 7:30PM. Welcome to the 200th episode of K-Drama School podcast. Grace reflects on the journey up until now, and how she got Creme Savers at the Amish store in the Driftless in Wisconsin. Grace’s guest is professor Min Joo Lee of Occidental College. They discuss Min Joo’s new book Finding Mr. Perfect which just dropped from Rutgers University Press. Their talk includes research method, relationship with the subjects, Asian masculinity and desirability, how romantic comedies shape and influence hetero cis-masculinity, and, of course, K-dramas. Grace’s book K-Drama School: A Pop Culture Inquiry into Why We Love Korean Television is available everywhere as a hardcover, paperback, e-book and audiobook: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/grace-jung/k-drama-school/9780762485727/⁠⁠ Subscribe to K-Drama School on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@kdramaschool and follow @KDramaSchool on Instagram and TikTok. Visit ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.kdramaschool.com/⁠⁠⁠ to learn more. Email info@kdramaschool.com for any booking inquiries.

    1h 19m

  4. 10/11/2025

    K-Drama School – Ep 199: Virtuous Business and White Dr. Phil with Breanne Whilhite

    [Spoiler Alert] Grace discusses the show Virtuous Business (2025, JTBC) written by Choi Bo-rim and directed by Jo Woong, starring Kim So-yeon. She unpacks the brief history of how Western sex toys entered the South Korean market and compares facts with what was stated in the monologue by Ra Mi-ran’s cameo appearance in the pilot episode. Grace gives an update about her recent book talk at George Washington University, and her latest big purchase. Grace has two book readings coming up in November. She’ll be reading at Hudson Valley Books for Humanity on November 21st at 5PM and at Big Red Books on November 22nd at 2PM. Grace’s guest today is Wisconsin-based comedian Breanne Wilhite. They talk about comedy, debate over Dr. Phil’s whiteness, and many other interesting topics. Grace’s book K-Drama School: A Pop Culture Inquiry into Why We Love Korean Television is available everywhere as a hardcover, paperback, e-book and audiobook: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/grace-jung/k-drama-school/9780762485727/⁠⁠ Subscribe to K-Drama School on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@kdramaschool and follow @KDramaSchool on Instagram and TikTok. Visit ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.kdramaschool.com/⁠⁠⁠ to learn more. Email info@kdramaschool.com for any booking inquiries

    1h 47m

  5. 22/09/2025

    K-Drama School – Ep 198: Our Unwritten Seoul and Background Actors with Dean Evans

    [Spoiler Alert] Grace discusses the show Our Unwritten Seoul (2025, tvN) starring Park Bo-young, Park Jin-young and Ryu Kyung-soo, written by Lee Kang and directed by Park Shin-woo. Grace discusses the tremendous actresses on this show including Park Bo-young, Kim Sun-young and Jang Young-nam, and what they bring to their performances. Grace’s book K-Drama School: A Pop Culture Inquiry into Why We Love Korean Television is available everywhere as a hardcover, paperback, e-book and audiobook: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/grace-jung/k-drama-school/9780762485727/⁠⁠ Subscribe to K-Drama School on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@kdramaschool and follow @KDramaSchool on Instagram and TikTok. Visit ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.kdramaschool.com/⁠⁠⁠ to learn more. Email info@kdramaschool.com for any booking inquiries. Donate to Grace’s friend Sarah’s GoFundMe page so she can fight breast cancer (stage 3): https://www.gofundme.com/f/ccz6e-sarahs-breast-cancer-fundraiser

    1h 29m

  6. 25/08/2025

    K-Drama School – Ep 197: Heavenly Ever After and Orange Mini Cooper with DJ BP Lar

    [Spoiler Alert] Grace discusses the show Heavenly Ever After (2025, JTBC) starring Kim Hye-Ja and Son Suk-ku, written by Lee Nam-kyu and Kim Su-jin and directed by Kim Sok-yun. Grace’s guest is the very talented Madison-based DJ BP Lar (@djbplar on Instagram). They discuss almost burning B’s house down with a tortilla and feeling like a hero immediately thereafter, performing her first DJ gig only after a few hours of her first lesson, meeting her husband in Bangkok, Wisconsin’s niceness, and whether being a DJ is the same as being a musician or not. Grace’s book K-Drama School: A Pop Culture Inquiry into Why We Love Korean Television is available everywhere as a hardcover, paperback, e-book and audiobook: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/grace-jung/k-drama-school/9780762485727/⁠⁠ Subscribe to K-Drama School on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@kdramaschool and follow @KDramaSchool on Instagram and TikTok. Visit ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.kdramaschool.com/⁠⁠⁠ to learn more. Email info@kdramaschool.com for any booking inquiries.

    1h 21m

  7. 24/06/2025

    K-Drama School – Ep 196: When the Stars Gossip and an Ode to Eve with Oscar Fuentes

    [Spoiler Alert] Happy Pride Month! Grace discusses the show When the Stars Gossip (2025, tvN) starring Gong Hyo-jin and Lee Min-ho, written by Seo Sook-hyang and directed by Park Shin-woo. Grace wonders when a K-drama will allow a woman to have sex and get pregnant out of wedlock and not be punished by death in the end. Grace’s guest is the very talented Los Angeles-based clown Oscar Fuentes (@irongogi on Instagram). They discuss clown “rules,” feedback, art, rejection, love and California Pizza Kitchen. Grace’s book K-Drama School: A Pop Culture Inquiry into Why We Love Korean Television is available everywhere as a hardcover, paperback, e-book and audiobook: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/grace-jung/k-drama-school/9780762485727/⁠⁠ Subscribe to K-Drama School on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@kdramaschool and follow @KDramaSchool on Instagram and TikTok. Visit ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.kdramaschool.com/⁠⁠⁠ to learn more. Email info@kdramaschool.com for any booking inquiries.

    1h 34m

  8. 16/06/2025

    K-Drama School – Ep 195: Tastefully Yours and Karaoke King with Josh Glen

    [Spoiler Alert] Happy Pride Month! Grace discusses the show Tastefully Yours (2025, ENA) written by Jung Soo-yoon starring Kang Ha-neul, Go Min-si, Kim Shin-rok and Yoo Su-bin directed by Park Dan-hee. Grace is impressed by Go Min-si’s transformation after her terrifying appearance in The Frog. She is also fascinated by how the show emulates Seon Buddhist nun Jeong Kwan’s culinary skills and the cultural significance of that. Grace’s guest is Madison-based comedian and comedy show producer John Glen. They discuss camp gear, comedy, and preparing oneself beforehand for karaoke. Grace’s book K-Drama School: A Pop Culture Inquiry into Why We Love Korean Television is available everywhere as a hardcover, paperback, e-book and audiobook: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/grace-jung/k-drama-school/9780762485727/⁠⁠ Subscribe to K-Drama School on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@kdramaschool and follow @KDramaSchool on Instagram and TikTok. Visit ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.kdramaschool.com/⁠⁠⁠ to learn more. Email info@kdramaschool.com for any booking inquiries.

    1h 29m
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K-Drama School is hosted by comedian, writer and media scholar Grace Jung who analyzes a new Korean TV drama every week and contextualizes it according to its social, cultural and historical significance. Let Grace school you in K-Dramas! Visit kdramaschool.com to learn more. Follow @kdramaschool on Instagram and TikTok!

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  • Creator
    Grace Jung
  • Years Active
    2021 - 2025
  • Episodes
    204
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © Grace Jung 2020
  • Show Website
    K-Drama School