▲ This photo, provided by JTBC, shows Wednesday-Thursday drama “Thirty-Nine.” (PHOTO NOT FOR SALE) (Yonhap)▲ These photos, provided by tvN·SBS, show “Twenty Five, Twenty One” (left) and “A Business Proposal.” (PHOTO NOT FOR SALE) (Yonhap)

 

SEOUL, March 20 (Yonhap) -- The time of "bromance" is over, and the era of "womance" has come.

 

Dramas featuring the relationships between female characters have recently continued to appear on the small screen and are loved by viewers.

A representative work is JTBC’s Wednesday-Thursday drama “Thirty-Nine.”

The series depicts the friendship and love of three friends, Cha Mi-jo(Son Ye-jin), Jeong Chan-young(Jeon Mi-do), and Jang Ju-hui(Kim Ji-hyun), who is about to turn 40.

The three friends, who have been together for more than 20 years, boast a stronger relationship than a family or lover who knows everything about each other.

The drama focuses on Chan-young, who is diagnosed with a terminal illness, and her friends who want to spend the rest of the days with her. The show also portrays the womance between Mi-jo and So-won (An So-hee) who are from the same orphanage.

The friendship between female characters also stands out in tvN's Saturday-Sunday drama "Twenty-Five, Twenty-One" and SBS TV’s “A Business Proposal.”

Na Hui-do(Kim Tae-ri), a member of the fencing national team and Go Yoo-rim (Bona) continue to grow as friends and rivals in the tvN series. In “A Business Proposal,” best friends Shin Ha-ri (Kim Se-jeong) and Jin Young-seo (Seol In-ah) are loved for their pleasant teamwork.

Among the recently ended series, TVing’s original series “Work Later, Drink Now,” MBC TV’s “The Red Sleeve,” SBS TV’s “Now, We Are Breaking Up,” sent comfort to viewers by portraying the friendship between female characters.

Popular culture critic Jeong Duk-hyun analyzed, "Since recent dramas are lacking in romance alone, women's friendship is often added together."

Drama critic Gong Hee-jung said, "Dramas are actively accepting the growing range of women's activities and roles," adding, "There is also the advantage of differentiating the existing solidarity of men and stories that only women can show."

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