Mental Healing in Korean Drama “It's Okay to Not Be Okay”

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The Korean Tourism Organization (KTO) conducted an online survey on the Korean wave with 12,085 foreigners from 102 countries, 9,253 from Asia, 2,158 from Europe, 502 from America, 112 from Africa and 60 from Oceania. Based on the survey results, the most interesting thing for foreigners is Korean pop music, or K-Pop with a percentage of 53.3%. Followed by TV dramas or Korean dramas with a percentage of 33.2%. Then other things and films with a percentage of 7.1% and 6.2%. (https://issuu.com/).
One of the Korean dramas in 2020 that has a high rating and scored national ratings of 7.3 percent and 7.6 percent and has gone viral is "It's Okay to Not Be Okay" (Nielsen Korea survey in https://www.liputan6.com/showbiz/). "It's Okay to Not Be Okay" premiered on June 20, 2020 on Korean TV station, tvN and can also be accessed on the paid Netflix app. This drama with a romantic genre tells about the journey of the main characters to get rid of the trauma of their past.

RESEARCH METHOD
The method used in this research is descriptive qualitative research method. According to Gunawan (2013), this method seeks to interpret the meaning of an event and understand the interactions of human behavior that exist in certain situations according to the researcher's subjective perspective.
Qualitative research emphasizes the process of inductive data analysis and emphasizes the meaning behind the observed data.
Charles Sanders Pierce stated that semiotics is the study of how symbolic forms are interpreted. Scientific studies of changes in meaning. Substantially, semiotics is a study that focuses on two symbols. Charles Sanders Peirce's semiotics. For Pierce (Arviani, 2007: 44) the sign "is something which stands to somebody for something in some respect or capacity. "Something that is used to make a sign function, is called ground by Pierce. Consequently, a sign (sign or JOSAR, Vol.

RESULTS AND DISCUSSION
The concept of representation in this study refers to the notion of how a person, group, or idea is represented in the mass media. In drama, the means of representation can be in the form of grand narration, storytelling, scenarios, characterizations, dialogue, and several other elements in drama (Arviani, 2007).
This research focuses on mental healing representations in Korean dramas. "It's Okay to Not Be Okay". This picture can be seen from the visual and textual analysis of certain scenes that show how mental health disorders can be overcome.
A. Self Healing: The Butterfly Hug method.
Self Healing according to Psychology is a process that helps overcome emotional wounds with our strong desire to move away from suffering, without the help of other people and any media. (Ersyafiani, 2018 or what is commonly referred to as someone with autism. He has a traumatic fear of butterflies. This is because he saw his mother being killed by someone wearing a butterfly-shaped cross. Sang Tae interpreted it was my butterfly that killed his mother. The scene above represents a way to approach someone who has autism by means of interpersonal closeness.
Autism is described as a person who closes himself and does not easily trust others. Moon Sang Tae, who suffers from autism coupled with his past trauma, makes him need special attention in handling it. The most appropriate method for dealing with it is to make him comfortable and find interesting talking points for people with autism.

D. PTSD & Interpersonal Therapy.
Kan Pil Wong is a patient at Ok Mental Hospital who suffers from PTSD or Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. PTSD is a stress disorder that occurs when the JOSAR, Vol.

CONCLUSION
The results showed that the characters in "It's Okay to Not Be Okay" experienced psychological disorders in the form of depression, anti-social, autism, hallucinations, Manic Disorder, and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. This drama encourages Korean people who have tended to be closed to be more aware of mental problems and the importance of healing them in the personal (non-medical) realm through the interpersonal approach of the characters.
In this study, it was found that there are five ways of mental healing represented in the series "It's Okay to Not Be Okay", namely: 1. Self healing using the butterfly hug method. One way of self-acceptance is by giving suggestions to ourselves to feel better. So that this method can overcome individual trauma without the help of others.
2. Problem Solving Therapy, a thought process and also an effort to help improve the ability of people with mental disorders to face their problems.