{"id":43716,"date":"2022-04-21T09:18:06","date_gmt":"2022-04-21T00:18:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/apr\/21\/pachinko-tv-series-korea-japan-min-jin-lee"},"modified":"2022-04-21T09:18:06","modified_gmt":"2022-04-21T00:18:06","slug":"a-difficult-time-why-popular-tv-series-pachinko-was-met-with-silence-in-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=43716","title":{"rendered":"\u2018A difficult time\u2019: why popular TV series Pachinko was met with silence in Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Experiences of <em>zainichi,<\/em> brought over as labourers, highlights bitter historical legacy between South Korea and Japan that still lingers<\/p>\n<p>It has charmed critics and attracted big audiences in the UK and the US, but the TV adaptation of Min Jin Lee\u2019s bestselling novel <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2017\/mar\/15\/pachinko-min-jin-lee-review\">Pachinko<\/a> has barely merited a mention in one of the countries that inspired it.<\/p>\n<p>The eight-part drama, currently streaming on Apple TV+, evokes the universal migrant experience, but it is also an uncomfortable reminder of the bitter historical legacy of Japan\u2019s colonial rule over the Korean peninsula.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/apr\/21\/pachinko-tv-series-korea-japan-min-jin-lee\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Experiences of zainichi, brought over as labourers, highlights bitter historical legacy between South Korea and Japan that still lingersIt has charmed critics and attracted big audiences in the UK and the US, but the TV adaptation of Min Jin Lee\u2019s best&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":818,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,71,88,222,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-culture","category-japan","category-south-korea","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/818"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43716"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43717,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43716\/revisions\/43717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}