K-pop, cinema, series, webtoons…: why does Korea fascinate us so much?

Un man filmed from behind. On her knees, in tears, in front of her burning house. Suddenly, entering the field, the hand of his old mother which rests on his head. And his voice whispering in the crackling flames: “An adult does not cry. During the Korean War, the whole country was like that.Do you have two legs and two arms? So you can leave. » We are almost at the end of the film Lucky Strike, the fascinating thriller by Kim Yong-hoon (2020), and the scene is to be taken, obviously, as a happy ending. After two hours of slaughter game for a branded bag filled with banknotes, the simple fact of being alive would forbid complaining: it is the promise of a new beginning. Damn. Not an obvious lesson for a whiny Frenchman.

But the hypothesis is validated…