K DRAMAS: and KOREA CREATED the FATAL MAN: Rediscovering Art of Love, Virility, Marriage

For several years now, the Korean cultural wave (Hallyu) has been sweeping across every continent, driven in large part by its television productions: the series known as K-dramas. Many Western viewers attest that once they have experienced them, they realize they can no longer watch anything else.In this cultural essay, Marie Joncquez shows how across all existing narrative genres, K-dramas focus on the nuances of emotion and exalt the wondrous distinction between the sexes. To enter the world of the Korean drama is to discover an entirely new universe-incredibly seductive and definitively astonishing. For the Western viewer, it is an upside-down world. These dramas present positive representations of masculinity and femininity, an emancipatory and reconciling counter-feminism, achieved through an inverted vision of male-female dynamics and the unprecedented figure of the "fatal man".