'Mother' aired on South Korean television during weekdays at 9:30 p.m. Her play ist simply amazing! (And not just hers.) It's no surprise that up-and-coming actress Heo Yool was named 'Best New Actress' at the 2018 BaekSang Arts Awards.

Despite all the traumatization, the abused child is primarily a ray of hope (isn´t poetic freedom just wonderful!). The subject is dark and exhausting, but there is still room for light, color, joy and heartwarming in the presentation. The hearty fare in terms of its sensitive content is, however, in a digestible way illuminated with all the proven stylistic devices of KDrama. In the case of 'Mother', essentially almost all mothers featured are to some extend criminals before the law (of one kind or another). If you go the official route, you can only intervene when it is already too late. It is a dramatic fact around the world on the subject of child abuse that dealing with domestic violence is legally difficult. In this context, 'Mother' also confronts the viewers with two other socially sensitive issues in their manifold entanglements: child abuse and vigilantism.

From this point of view, this KDrama becomes immediately socially critical: if the position of the single mother in South Korea weren't so hopeless, then the whole story wouldn't have developed the emotional drive that it has. But 'Mother' is also (and most importantly) about the stigma of single mothers - and for South Korea that is outstandingly detrimental. So far 'Mother' isn't necessarily specific to Korea in terms of its story. When is a mother a (good) mother? Once a mother = always a mother? Who can become a mother? Who has to be, no matter what?. Being a single mother in South Korea can be quite hopeless, that´s where this story is coming from Yes, you should watch it.Īs the title suggests, 'Mother' deals with the archetypal theme of 'motherhood'.

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