"Delivering Facts on Unit 731 and Human Experimentation"… Japan's 'Gyeongseong Creature' Interest Shows "The Power of K-Content"

'Gyeongseong Creature' Consistently Ranks High on Japanese Netflix
Set in the Japanese Colonial Era, It Addresses Comfort Women and Unit 731 Human Experiments

The Netflix original series 'Gyeongseong Creature' is receiving significant attention in Japan, and Professor Seo Kyung-deok of Sungshin Women's University emphasized, "I hope the history of Northeast Asia is properly known to people around the world."

Netflix 'Gyeongseong Creature' still cut.
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On the 5th, Professor Seo introduced on his social media (SNS), "Since the release of Part 1 of the drama 'Gyeongseong Creature,' it has consistently ranked high on Netflix in Japan and is receiving a lot of attention."

He added, "On SNS, there were quite a few reactions recognizing historical facts such as 'I learned about Unit 731 for the first time,'" and analyzed, "It is very meaningful that historical facts like Unit 731 and human experimentation, which were hardly covered in Japanese education, were well conveyed."

Professor Seo said, "Similarly, through the Apple TV+ drama 'Pachinko,' the atrocities of Japan could be widely publicized," and stated, "It naturally incorporated historical facts such as the forced labor, comfort women, and the massacre during the Great Kanto Earthquake, showing the oppressed Koreans under Japanese rule."

He continued, "The power of K-content has greatly contributed to properly informing the world about Japan's perpetrator history through global OTT platforms," and added, "I hope various K-contents such as K-dramas and K-movies will spread widely around the world this year as well."

Meanwhile, the Netflix original drama 'Gyeongseong Creature,' starring Park Seo-joon and Han So-hee, has consistently maintained a high ranking on Netflix Japan since the release of Part 1. According to the OTT platform viewing ranking site 'FlixPatrol,' 'Gyeongseong Creature' ranked 8th in the Top 10 TV Shows on Netflix Japan. Set in Gyeongseong (Seoul) during the Japanese colonial period in 1945, 'Gyeongseong Creature' features monsters (creatures) and addresses not only the issue symbolizing Japanese military comfort women but also the story of Japan's Unit 731, which conducted human experiments under the pretext of preparing for biological warfare.

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