My experience with Korean Reality TV.

Celebrity boils ramyeon. Panel reaction: THAT LOOKS SO GOOD!

Celebrity pours a cup of coffee. Pre-recorded soundtrack: Oooo~ooooh~

People do anything: A billion shots of the same two-second clip from multiple angles.

Celebrities eat food. Any food. Pre-recorded soundtrack: Oooo~ooooh~

Celebrity is given a tray of cups of coffee. But only one is coffee. The rest are soy sauce. He has to try them all because reasons.

Celebrity sees something nice. Has multiple orgasms.

Trot music. Trot music everywhere. All day and all night. Trot is shoved into every orifice of the viewer's body. Trot. Oh I forgot to mention. Trot.

Scripted TV shows:

Plucky poor person makes it big by simply working hard. The chaebol wilt at such bootstrap pulling pluck.

Poor girl meets chaebol scion with a heart of gold.

YOU get amnesia! YOU get amnesia! EVERYONE gets amnesia!

But not you. You don't get amnesia. You get cancer. Or dementia. Because these are "moral" diseases, unlike AIDS or other sexually transmitted diseases.

Also EVERYONE is a virgin. Even people with kids.

Holding hands at age 30 is SOOOO awkward and hard, and the ultimate goal!

TV is generally horrible. This applies all over the world. Movies have their problems and cliches, too, but I'd rather watch a movie any day. At least movies usually end after a couple of hours.