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INTRODUCTORY?KOREAN?DRAMA? ? Uwe?E.?Reinhardt? After?the?near?\collapse?of?the?world??s?financial?system?has?shown?that?we?economists?really?do? not?know?how?the?world?works,?I?am?much?too?embarrassed?to?teach?economics?anymore,? which?I?have?done?for?many?years.?I?will?teach?Modern?Korean?Drama?instead.?? ? Although?I?have?never?been?to?Korea,?I?have?watched?Korean?drama?on?a?daily?basis?for?over?six? years?now.?Therefore?I?can?justly?consider?myself?an?expert?in?that?subject.?? ? ? ? ? ? ? Disclaimer? ? My?course?will?convey?the?impression?that?an?outsider?would?have?of?Korea,?if?all?his?information? about?the?country?came?from?Korean?Drama.?Quite?possibly,?that?impression?is?at?variance?with? the?real?Korea.?? ? In?real?life,?for?example,?Korean?mothers?in?law?may?be?the?sweetest?creatures?on?earth?who? truly?adore?and?spoil?their?daughters?or?sons?in?law.?? ? Furthermore,?quite?possibly?real?\life?Koreans?do?not?talk?loudly?to?themselves?whenever?they? are?alone,?although?it?is?helpful?that?they?do?so?in?the?dramas,?so?that?we?may?know?what?they? think.??? ? Finally,?I?could?imagine?that?the?vocabulary?of?real?\life?Korean?youngsters?extends?beyond?the? words???ye???(yes),???aniyo???(no)?and???juey?\song?hamnida???(I?am?sorry)?in?their?communications? with?parents.??It?is,?however,?all?of?the?vocabulary?that?a?child?needs?at?home?in?Korean?drama.??? ? For?example,?when?a?Korean?girl?comes?home?looking?absolutely?devastated?after?finding?on?her? boyfriend??s?cell?phone?the?picture?of?another?girl,?and?her?mother?then?asks?her?with?great? concern:???Is?anything?wrong????the?daughter?invariably?will?answer???aniyo,???goes?to?her?room,? jumps?into?bed?with?her?street?clothes?on,?puts?a?pillow?over?her?head,?and?keeps?her?cell?phone? by?her?side,?so?that?she?can?furiously?rip?out?the?batteries?to?punish?the?maybe?\ex?\boyfriend,? should?he?dare?to?call,?as?he?should,?but?probably?won??t.?? ? Similarly,?when?a?son?comes?into?the?house?looking?troubled?after?having?dri