Fourteen years of watching elderly poverty from the sidelines are condensed into one quiet, devastating Korean drama
In the parks and back streets of Seoul, a 65-year-old woman goes to work. She has no pension, no children to lean on, and no safety net. What she has is a trade the country prefers not to discuss: she provides sexual services to elderly men.
That is the premise of The Bacchus Lady (2016), a Korean drama that earns a solid 3.5/5 from viewers and a much higher score on the “thinking about it for days afterward” scale.
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