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Friday, May 24, 2019

With More Female Screenwriters Do Korean TV Dramas Pass the Bechdel Test?

www.forbes.com: Prime time TV programming in Korea, much like prime time in the US, has broadened efforts to appeal to young female viewers by featuring more complex, communicative female characters. However, in the U.S. most of those characters are created by men. According to the Center for the Study of Women in Television and Film, only 27 percent of all directors, writers, producers, executive producers, editors and photography directors working on U.S. network programs are women. In Korea the number of female screenwriters is closer to 90 percent.

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