The Tao of K-Drama: Wise Narratives for a Troubled World (Narrative Medicine)

K-dramas--South Korean television series that have captivated audiences worldwide--are often described as addictive, immersive, and emotionally generous.But in The Tao of K-Drama, Mindy Thompson Fullilove, MD, argues that they are something more consequential: a global site of collective meaning-making, where hundreds of millions of viewers encounter shared narratives of rupture, endurance, and repair.Far from mere entertainment, K-dramas offer a sophisticated vocabulary for living with--and through--trauma. At the heart of The Tao of K-Drama is a bold claim: that K-dramas form a sophisticated literature of healing, born from a culture that has endured catastrophe and learned how to recover from it.These stories begin where many Western narratives hesitate--at the site of trauma itself--and linger there long enough to teach us how injury reshapes individuals, relationships, and communities.Drawing on seven K-dramas as case studies, Fullilove shows how the genre's distinctive narrative