51�Թ�

People are swooning over sappy K-dramas from Dubai to India to Singapore.

As part of his application process, he wrote a “sappy, cheesy” personal statement, the memory of which embarrasses him now.

To counter this, she has an uncommonly strong script for the genre, balancing the sappy and sentimental with a slangy skater-queer-cool-kid voice inhabited comfortably by both Stella and Plaza.

They’re sappy and maudlin, aiming to reduce the audience to a puddle of tears.

For decades, the powers that be have told a very specific narrative about us: triumphalist and trite, self-congratulatory and sappy, while staying far away from our difficult parts.