The Tao of K-Drama

Mindy Fullilove ’71

The Tao of K-Drama by Mindy Fullilove ’71, former Flexner lecturer, argues that South Korean television series, or K-dramas, are not just entertaining, but consequential — a global site of collective meaning-making, where hundreds of millions of viewers encounter shared narratives of rupture, endurance, and repair. (Oxford University Press, 2026)

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