Series "Love in the Big City" released on Tving on Monday. Courtesy of Merry Christmas By Lee Gyu-lee The adaptations of Park Sang-young's best-selling novel, "Love in the Big City," which has sold over 100,000 copies, are making strides in expanding LGBTQ+ representation in Korea's traditionally conservative media scene. Following the release of a film adaptation earlier this month, the novel has now been transformed into a television series on Tving, contributing to the growing visibility of LGBTQ+ narratives.
Park, the novel's original author and the scriptwriter for the series, said he aimed to "take a crack at opening the heavy doors of perception" within Korea's queer genre. Author and scriptwriter Park Sang-young of "Love in the Big City" / Courtesy of Merry Christmas “I didn't dare to think about making huge changes in people's perceptions (with the series). It was more like just opening a door and stepping out.
If there was a heavily closed door, I just hoped that this work, with the love story that was previously much untold, would receive a lot of love and empathy,” Park said during an interview with The Korea Times at a cafe in Jongno District, Seoul, Wednesday. The eight-part series, which was released on Tving, Monday, follows a young gay man, Go Yeong (Nam Yoon-su) , navigating through personal and romantic relationships in Seoul. As he goes through meeting different partners and breakups, he explores the meaning of love.
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