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. No one was allowed to speak about the incident for years. See’s critically acclaimed book also touches on the painful history of the 4.3 Incident, an incident in which protesters attacked Jeju police stations and in retaliation thousands of islanders were killed and many villages burned. “With what I think is a great story of friendship, of love found, lost, and found again, with what will be exciting-and sometimes scary-scenes underwater as well as on land.” “How wonderful it would be if this television series could bring the unique culture of the haenyeo to the world,” she said.
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