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Podcast: K-Drama School
Episode: K-Drama School – Ep. 90: Encounter and the Desert’s Peace with Saeed Green
Description: [Spoiler Alert] Grace discusses the show Encounter (2018, tvN) written by Yoo Young-ah—the same writer of the series Thirty-Nine. Encounter stars Song Hye-kyo and Park Bo-gum. Grace analyzes the Cinderella-story in a gender-swapped scenario wherein the woman is in a higher income bracket than the man, and what that looks like in a K-drama. Grace’s guest is Berlin-based comedian Saeed Green (@saeedgreen.ent on Instagram). They discuss how and why Saeed became vegan, his tour in Iraq when he served in the US Army, the peace he felt in the Iraqi desert, how PTSD for a young Black Amer...