Ji Hae-soo

An advertisement for "It's OK, That's Love," a Korean TV show that aired this summer and became one of the country's few public forums discussing mental health.

A TV drama shatters taboos around mental health in South Korea

October 17, 2014Culture

Very few South Koreans seek help for mental health issues, and even fewer people talk about it openly. But both of those things may be changing thanks to a TV drama called “It’s OK, That’s Love,” which is bringing open talk of mental health problems into South Korea’s media-saturated mainstream.