A friend of my daughter's from school got her interested in a South Korean Soap Opera about a time traveling Doctor in South Korea. He is a neurosurgeon there and his love (either a nurse or a doctor) gets into a traffic accident and dies in front of him in the hospital room. This somehow sends him back into time in Korea about 159 years to when things were very different there. I started to watch it with my daughter because she has to study all the time to get into college next year. So, if she isn't hanging out with her friends she is almost always studying when she is home. So, every few hours of studying she will come out and take a break and sometimes she watches "Dr. Jin" or "Bones" on Netflix (even though I think she has finally caught up to this year so she now watches "Bones" on Tivo instead of Netflix.
Though is is very emotional this Korean TV series with English Subtitles it addresses the angst of a teenage girl going off to college with all the unknowns in her life. So, I can see why she watches it. I find it sort of over emotional because of the cultural differences. But, I sort of like it because often the men are wearing amazing things that sort of remind me of the 1960s because they are so colorful. For example, the Major, (a Korean young officer which my daughter said is a music heart throb for real in Korea) wear a feather in his hat and other decorations with a set of prayer beads running from the hat around his chin almost like a strap hanging there.
I've never seen anything like this type of dress in human history ever before. So, that is really different. Also, the Queen Dowager has a about a foot long golden dragon as a horizontal hair spike behind her head which is amazing too. So, this drama is very colorful in the dress people wear 159 years ago in a kingdom they call Joseon. The drama centers around mostly the royal family there and all the intrigues of court and revolutions and Dr. Jin eventually becomes the royal court Physician (or at least one of them because he is an accomplished neurosurgeon from today. So, now I watch it mainly to spend time with my daughter. But, it is still a fun thing to do.
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