‘Grooming’: uproar over student-teacher ‘romance’ forces K-drama off the air

Barely a week aft its unveiling, a South Korean tv play centred connected a forbidden romance betwixt a teacher and her 12-year-old pupil was cancelled, pursuing a torrent of nationalist outrage that laid bare the uneasy intersection of storytelling, societal work and kid information successful the nation’s booming media industry. The bid – tentatively titled The Elementary School Student I Love – was to beryllium based connected a webtoon of the aforesaid sanction and had lone conscionable been announced successful precocious June when...