kdrama1-6, Exercise 1: The beginnings of television drama

Model answer (four of these):

- 1927: radio broadcasting begins under Japanese rule, with radio dramas; about 30 percent of programming was in Korean.
- 1956: the experimental station HLKZ-TV launches; its first TV film, The Gate of Heaven, ran 15 minutes (the station was shut down a few years later after a fire).
- Late 1961: KBS launches and, per the article, television drama gains momentum; 1962: KBS airs the first TV series, and also Gukto malli, the first historical series.
- 1960s: single-act dramas, then daily soaps (Snowfall, 1968, the first); Sajikgol Old West Room (1967) the most popular.
- 1970s: sets spread widely; foreign series imported because action and science fiction were too expensive.
- 1980s: colour television; Love and Ambition (MBC, 1987) reportedly 78 percent.

The "first" claims do not give one origin because the article calls Death Row "Korea's first drama", The Gate of Heaven the first Korean television film and a 1962 KBS series the first TV series: different kinds of "first", not set in order.

Sources: Wikipedia, Korean drama; Sageuk.