High school zombie horrors, high endurance physical competitions, and high-stakes cooking shows are a few of the series represented on EW's list of the 25 best Korean shows to stream on Netflix.

But Squid Game isn’t a total anomaly. The Korean series is one chapter in a larger story with its own name and history: a seismic, ongoing shift in the global entertainment landscape known as Hallyu.

Korean-made series have continued to dominate viewership on Netflix, following on from the breakout successes of “Squid Game” and “Hometown Cha-Cha-Cha” in 2021. For ten of the 13 weeks in the first ...

Is a world where people date artificial intelligence (AI) instead of human partners a dystopia or a utopia? While Western works exploring human-AI relationships have been steadily released, a Korean ...