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Crash Landing on You: the hit K-drama tells an unlikely love story spanning North and South


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  • A beautiful South Korean heiress paraglides into the North, where she meets handsome soldier. The two fall in love while he conceals her from authorities
  • It’s an unlikely tale but the programme, which culminates this weekend, has earned praise for its realistic depiction of everyday life in North Korea
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South Korea’s biggest current television hit is a surreally unlikely tale of a billionaire heiress who accidentally paraglides into the North and falls in love with a chivalrous army officer serving Kim Jong-un. Crash Landing on You is unashamedly fantastical in its plotlines, but has drawn praise for its portrayal of everyday life in the North, even down to accents and words. The division of the peninsula is a regular theme in K-drama and K-movies, but it is unusual for so much of a show to be set in the North – in both Pyongyang and the countryside – and defectors have complimented its accuracy.

Portraits of North Korean founder Kim Il-sung and his son and successor Kim Jong-il – father of the current leader – appear on the walls of every home, with propaganda slogans in the streets of the set.

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