ZEV RATTET is a 77-year-old Marin County guy so passionate about K-dramas that he’s seen 15,000 hours of that voguish Korean genre, a variant of U.S. TV’s limited series.
Watching has earned him, in addition to more than occasional bleary eyes, a big hug from IU, a 32-year-old K-pop queen with 35 million Instagram followers, and a free trip to Seoul, the 9-million-person capital of South Korea.
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