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Severity of school violence in K-dramas raises questions of appropriateness

From left, scenes from ″Weak Hero Class 1″ on Wavve, ″The Glory″ on Netflix and ″The King of Pigs″ on Tving [SCREEN CAPTURE]

 
The severity of school violence depicted in Korean dramas on major streaming platforms is concerning viewers as an increasing number of recent hits center around graphic school violence.
 
Relevant titles include Netflix’s “The Glory” (2022-2023) and “Juvenile Justice” (2022), Wavve’s “Weak Hero Class 1” (2022) Disney+’s “Revenge of Others” (2022).
 
Foreign viewers, too, are expressing their shock and perturbance in comments and reviews online. In Thailand, the popularity of one show sparked a movement on social media that…

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