My world adventure has not started yet, but I did just complete a Netflix Korean series, which inspired two follow-up meals featuring one of their popular alcoholic drinks that dominated in the show and, it turns out, also throughout the world.  Jinro Soju sells three times the volume of its nearest competitors, which are McDowell's No. 1 Whisky and Officers's Choice, both from India. Crash Landing on You was a marathon event.  Rated 98 by Rotten Tomatoes audiences, the series had 16 episodes, each about an hour and a half long, with a finale of two hours.  Add them up, and you get 24.5 hours, the equivalent of twelve films. For two decades now I've felt that the best films came from Korea.  My frequent international travels meant that I watched quite a number of them on the flights, and there was something special about productions from that country.  They get to you emotionally.  That gave me an inkling of those Korean soap operas ( also called dramas ) so popular in H