The worldsee

  Watching 'Friends' in 2025 Korea: A Look at Love and Friendship Through a  Different Lens There's a unique kind of time travel involved in watching 'Friends' in 2025. The fashion, the laugh track, the sheer absence of smartphones—it's a potent dose of 90s nostalgia. But for a Korean viewer like myself, the most fascinating—and sometimes jarring—aspect isn't the technology, but the very fabric of their relationships. Their style of friendship and romance, once seen as a universal ideal, now feels like a fascinating cultural artifact when viewed against the backdrop of modern Korean values. The "Found Family": An Ideal vs. The Reality of Jeong The core premise of 'Friends' is the "found family"—a group of people who are each other's primary emotional support system. They live in each other's pockets, walk into apartments unannounced, and are involved in every minute detail of one another's lives. This intense bond is t...