K-Dramas Take On Mental Health Issues
"It's Okay, It's Love" is about more than love. It's about falling in love with someone who has a mental health issue. This is fairly new territory for k-dramas. Yes, k-dramas have their share of sociopathic villains, whose lack of concern for others makes it convenient to hate them. But fewer characters with mental disabilities are portrayed in a sympathetic way.
That may be changing.
The new SBS drama "It's Okay, That's Love" is working to change that, said the screenwriter Noh Hee Kyung at the drama's press conference.
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