I love the care that is put into placing characters into meaningful, memorable, and (usually) beautiful sets and locations in dramas. Having recently finished The Witch (and still thinking about it!), I appreciated how the ubiquitous rooftop apartment became both a haven and a prison for the FL, and when the constrained sets opened up to a different locale at the end, it made me emotional. I enjoyed seeing Undercover High School be set at my favorite university in Korea – it’s such a standby location that it has the familiarity of an old friend! I also love that interiors are given as much care and thought as exteriors… the gorgeously designed and lit interiors of The Matchmakers added to the gentle magic of its story. I also love that sets aren’t just the physical spaces, but also the soundscapes. In Call it Love, the cityscape included soft sounds of traffic in the background as the characters went about their day, and in Like Flowers in Sand, whenever the characters were close enough to the ocean, you could hear the waves in the background, and as they went further inland, waves were replaced with the sound of breeze through leaves. I actually keep a list of dramas that feel very place-based with ambient sounds of their settings, like countryside, seaside, or city.