Netflix sci-fi K-drama is packed with colonial themes

Netflix’s most recent K-drama is a humming, sometimes complicated mix of misconception, scary, historic fiction and love. Gyeongseong Creature capably blends the socio-cultural background of a Japan- inhabited Korea nearing completion of the Second World War, with resident mythology that increases up as an allegory for manifest destiny.

Set throughout the rough last months of World War II, Gyeongseong Creature adheres to Tae- sang (Park Seo-Joon) and Chae- ok (Han So-Hee) as they attempt to rescue and break inmates/patients out of the strange however verifiably threatening Ongseong health center. To the relatively nucleic location of a story that focuses on an oppressed community’s progressive awakening in the darkness of a despicable little army …