It definitely did take over some part of the world. My parents live in the Romanian country-side, they're pensioners, my dad is crazy about historical SK dramas

It definitely did take over some part of the world. My parents live in the Romanian country-side, they're pensioners, my dad is crazy about historical SK dramas. Until his retirement he almost didn't watch any TV at all, let alone TV dramas of any kind. Granted, that type of content is not targeted at the HN crowd, for example, or at the "artsy" Western audiences, to give another example. The same discussion can be had about Turkish TV dramas.