Review of Cheon Myeong-kwan’s (천명관) “Modern Family” (고령화 가족)
Cheon Myeong-kwan’s Modern Family (고령화 가족 or “Aging Family” in Korean) is a novelistic Korean soap-opera with a bad attitude. How much of a soap-opera? The narrator, In-mo, a failed director and divorced alcoholic consistently explicitly compares the twists and turns of his family life to one, and at one point even prays for divine…