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Diving Deep—Finding Pearls in Every Drama

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One Day Off: Where will you walk, eat and let your mind wander? (In Closing)

A K-drama Deep-Dive Review As I close my thoughts on One Day Off, I keep returning to something the drama does—something I’ve always found difficult to relate to. In many K-dramas,...

One Day Off #4: The food we crave is often the memories we miss

A K-drama Deep-Dive Review One of Hagyeong’s one-day-off trips in One Day Off was about food—but more than that, it was about memories. It began with her sharing snacks in school w...

One Day Off #3: Apologise not to be right, but to make things right

A K-drama Deep-Dive Review There’s an episode of One Day Off that I really liked, even though it was not an easy watch. It touched on the difficulty of communication across generati...

One Day Off #2: Walking the line between artistic passion and life's practicality

A K-drama Deep-Dive Review One of Hagyeong’s one-day-off trips in One Day Off, was sparked by a conversation with a student about career choices. The student told her she didn’t wan...

One Day Off #1: Taking a day off at a time to explore life like never before

A K-drama Deep-Dive Review Most of us are drawn to “full” k-dramas in the sense where each episode would constitute at least 50 minutes in length up to more than an hour. But have y...