Discovering K-drama

UNBELIEVABLE but true. There are serious academic studies and researches teasing out the phenomenon of how people coped with the pandemic by watching Korean drama series.

Apparently, watching the addictive dramas helped people deal with anxiety and the abundance of stressful information on the pandemic. True, binge-watching could become a problem, but the dramas did leave people entertained and reduced their stress.

My own experience is hardly unique. I can say that one of the scariest experiences of my life was Covid.

Like most people, I was confined within the four walls of my home, managing to get a dose of sunshine from the pocket garden in front of my house. Aside from regular Zoom office conferences, initially I coped by talking regularly with my friends on the phone, decluttering my house, reading and rereading books that had gathered dust in the shelves. I also took Zoom lessons in creative writing and Ikebana Sogetsu flower arranging, thanks to Sunshine Place, a place where “loneliness is a stranger.” (More about this place in a future article.)

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