Korea is becoming the true star of Netflix (and yes it is worth it)

Whatever is going on in South Korea needs to continue. The United States has Hollywood, and India has Bollywood, but no nation is churning out as much excellent original programming as Korea. Netflix viewers should agree with that.

Squid Game might have turned into a surprise hit, at least as far as the number of viewers who tune in, but there is no doubt as to the elite creative talent of its creators. Is there lots of violence? Absolutely. Are there some plot holes in season 2? Sure. But is it non-stop entertainment? Definitely.

But Squid Game is not the only successful and highly original program to come out of Korea. Light Shop is also excellent. Maybe Netflix subscribers cannot tune into that yet, but it will be worth the wait if it does end up on Netflix. One of the great parts is that soon Netflix viewers will be able to see at least one of the stars from Light Shop in a new series.

Netflix's next huge Korean hit might be Show Business

Before we go on, let's acknowledge that a large number of people complain about two things with Netflix. One is that the price continues to go up. That is fair, but the price is still not yet an outrageous amount. The second major complaint is that the streamer has far too many foreign language series and films on Netflix.

Let's be real here and say that it should not matter if what you are seeing on the streaming service is in English or not, but what matters is the quality of the show or movie. Complaining about subtitles is just, well...lazy. A person wants to be entertained and English is not the only language that presents that entertainment value.

If one streams Squid Game dubbed in English, for instance, the viewer is missing out. Inflection is vastly important. Squid Game is much better in the original Korean.

So likely, too, will be a new Netflix series called Show Business. The series revolves around the Korean cutthroat business of show in Korea in the 1960s and 1980s. The show will star Gong Yoo (who played the Salesman in Squid Game), Song Hye-kyo from Descendants of the Sun, Kim Seol-hyun from Light Shop, Cha Seung-won from Uprising, and Lee Hanee from the The Fiery Priest.

Gong Yoo plays Dong-gu, a childhood friend of Song's Min-ja, and the two try to find their way through the Korean music industry. The series promises to have a lot of drama, but also a lot of heart. There is no release date yet, but you likely should be prepared to make it a must-watch whenever Netflix releases the series.

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