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Monday is many times my film/food day.  I'll get to the Mariah/cuisine part, but will start with a dream to which I awoke this morning that was unique in two aspects.   All this began last night when I began watching on Netflix  Something in the Rain , a Korean series starring Son Ye-Jin.  This was her return from a five year absence, and led to Crash Landing on You , which was rated 98 by Rotten Tomatoes.  Only scored 75 from Rotten Tomatoes , but has an appealing nature, where popular American songs are inserted to set the right mood.  Two in particular, Stand by Your Man by Tammy Wynette, and Save the Last Dance for Me by Bruce Willis were repeated numerous times.  I couldn't quite recognize the singer of the second song, and was astonished to later find that this was the Bruce Willis of all those action films. So anyway, I began viewing from around 7:45PM, and this series apparently has 16 episodes of 2 hours or more each.  To shorten my travail, I did not realize I was

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