Dear Colleagues,

As Easter is fast approaching over here, I’ll keep the intro short this week.

Now that apparently 2-minute micro dramas (‘duanju’) are all the rage in China, with many people watching titles like ‘Saved by the sexy cowboy’ on their smartphones, I’m sure you will be pleased that over here, my wife and I are still firmly hooked on K-Drama. Lately, we’ve been watching ’Can this love be translated?’.  The concept is rock solid: it takes many, many episodes till the two protagonists, this time Joo Ho-jin and  Cha Mu-hee (+ her zombie alter ego Do Ra-mi), finally get to kiss each other passionately ( K-drama kissing is a genre in itself). Sometimes, in the few remaining episodes, things still go wrong for reasons only the scenario writers know. Not this time (spoiler!), though.

Anyway, just to let you know that like most of you, we also have a few  escapist strategies for the evening, to try to forget – briefly – the current, increasingly “zombie...