Jürg Schneider

From the Republic of Korea: Stories on „Tong-Il“ Rice and „Maroo“ Potato

I recent­ly watched “Pota­to Lab”, a K‑drama that fea­tures Mi-Kyung, the fema­le prot­ago­nist. She is a pas­sio­na­te pota­to rese­ar­cher who deve­lo­ps, with her team, Maroo, a (fic­ti­tious) new dome­stic pota­to varie­ty. The sto­ry is set at a natio­nal-style agri­cul­tu­ral rese­arch insti­tu­te and shows actu­al Kore­an pota­to bree­ding work – par­ti­cu­lar­ly inte­re­st­ing for me who has work­ed with plant bree­ders in a past func­tion.