![]() ‘We don’t feel that one season will be enough to tell all of the stories involved in the book, as far as developing the characters,” said Jang. It’s being planned as a multi-season series set on Jeju Island. The show will differ from the usual one-season k-drama format. Lisa has done such a tremendous job of building these characters that are so passionate and so emotional and we want to preserve that and maintain that in our story.” Korean dramas are extremely emotional, very human-drama related and focused and character driven. We will have Korean writers write it in Korean. ![]() We really want to make our series very Korean drama-esque. “It was a great show, but we kind of felt like it was Korean but not Korean. Jang sees the production of The Island of Sea Women as taking a more k-drama-centric approach. It was an international production set in New York, Tokyo and Busan. ![]() Earlier this year Apple AAPL TV launched a series based on the novel Pachinko by Min Jin Lee. The Island of Sea Women is not the first English language novel with Korean characters to be adapted for the small screen. Then to see it in this fictional world, with these characters and to see the impact it had on their lives, it made even more of a vivid impression.” “So, when I was reading it in the book it was shocking to me-as a Korean American-that these atrocities happened. “Unless you’re studying Korean history you don’t really know about that,” said Jang. ![]()
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