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    A K-Drama Without a Drop of Romance

    Entertainment musts from Shan Wang
    by Isabel Fattal Sep 03, 2023 5 minutes
    Source: Seo Ji Hyung / Netflix

    This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day, helps you discover new ideas, and recommends the best in culture. Sign up for it here.

    Welcome back to The Daily’s Sunday culture edition, in which one Atlantic writer reveals what’s keeping them entertained.

    Today’s special guest is Shan Wang, The Atlantic’s programming director. Shan has written about why it’s a mistake to write off Korean-language TV series as sappy melodrama, and offered 19 ways to think about the heat. She’s currently watching a distressing yet compelling K-drama, drowning in snacks from an Asian grocery-delivery service she recently discovered, and begging everyone in her life to stop quoting Zoolander at her.

    First, here are three Sunday reads from The Atlantic:

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