{"id":61891,"date":"2025-02-01T08:09:06","date_gmt":"2025-02-01T12:09:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=61891"},"modified":"2025-02-01T08:09:06","modified_gmt":"2025-02-01T12:09:06","slug":"radio-sighting-in-the-k-drama-happiness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/radio-sighting-in-the-k-drama-happiness\/","title":{"rendered":"Radio Sighting in the K-Drama Happiness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Many thanks to <em>SWLing Post<\/em> contributor Mark Hirst, who writes:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">I spotted this radio in the Korean zombie outbreak drama &#8216;Happiness&#8217; currently showing on Netflix.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Happiness-Radio.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-61892\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Happiness-Radio.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"514\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Happiness-Radio.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Happiness-Radio-300x151.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Happiness-Radio-768x386.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Happiness-Radio-624x313.jpeg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>You&#8217;ve got sharp eyes, Mark! Can anyone positively identify that transceiver in the background?<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor Mark Hirst, who writes: I spotted this radio in the Korean zombie outbreak drama &#8216;Happiness&#8217; currently showing on Netflix. You&#8217;ve got sharp eyes, Mark! Can anyone positively identify that transceiver in the background?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,305],"tags":[10686,5458,5506],"class_list":["post-61891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-nostalgia","tag-happiness","tag-mark-hirst","tag-radios-in-movies"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-g6f","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":58224,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/mark-spots-a-vintage-radio-in-taxi-driver\/","url_meta":{"origin":61891,"position":0},"title":"Mark spots a vintage radio in &#8216;Taxi Driver&#8217;","author":"Thomas","date":"November 18, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Mark Hirst, who writes: Thomas, I've been deep down the k-drama rabbit hole for months now and I'm trying to familiarise myself with the Korean language at the same time. 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