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Podcast: K-Drama School
Episode: K-Drama School - Ep 124: Queenmaker and Korean Air’s Nut Rage with Connor Hangsleben
Description: [Spoiler Alert] Grace discusses the show Queenmaker (2023, Netflix) written by Moon Ji-young. Queenmaker takes inspiration from Korean Air’s Cho family scandals related to staff abuse. Kim Hee-ae’s role as Do-hee is an exploration of how a person who tolerated and participated in corruption turns her life around through vengeance. Kim Hee-ae’s K-drama queendom also plays a meta role in crowning veteran indie and art house film actress Moon So-ri as a K-drama queen through this show. Grace’s guest is comedian Connor Hangsleben. They discuss restaurant work, white girl problems versus Black men problems, the validity of “twin...