‘You came into my life as a gift’: the extraordinary cross border love story of Captain Ri, Jeong-hyoek and Yoon, Se-ri
In this second part of my love for K-drama series I focus entirely on one serial, my favourite, Crash landing on you (2019). So if you bear with me I will take you through a tale of romance, love, friendships across borders which cannot end on a note of fulfilment in ‘serial’ time. Borders, says Geetanjali Shree in her tome Tombs of Sand, should be about where people meet but instead the borders created in the 20 th century are about partitioning peoples’ lives and keeping them apart. And so it is with North and South Korea, which is where the protagonists in this story live, separated in their lifetime. Crash landing is in 16 episodes, each 90 minutes, very long, and yet it had record viewership in Korea beside being one of the highest revenue earners for tv serials. It continues to fascinate audiences across the world in every age group in my experience since both I and a young 31-year-old friend loved it. Replete with romance, adventure, fun and tragedy it is a highly en...