It's immediately known as a US show because the main character has to resort to crime to pay for health care.

🍔-drama

because hollywood the hegemonic default? but we don't say "j-anime" it's just japanese by default. even within english media we always specified "bbc documentary" or british comedy because there are stylistic trends common to the ones that made it across the pond before internet video and differentiated them from seppo media.

In Japan, American shows fall under {海外|かいがい}ドラマ (foreign drama) whereas domestic shows are just plainドラマ (drama). I'd hazard a guess that the English terms C/J/K-drama are reborrowing from the broader Japanese or Korean use of "drama" to describe shows, since I don't know about you but I would rarely say I'm "watching a drama" in English. Those terms predate the mainstream Western awareness of East Asian dramas, so it makes sense to me that enthusiast groups would draw from native terminology in the same way that we use the Japanese demographic categories shonen/shojo/seinen/josei for manga and anime.

Also, it's not limited to Asia--see Britpop, NWOBHM, Eurodance, Eurobeat. The main reason you don't hear more about, idk, F-pop/drama is that there's zero market penetration for French music and shows in English-speaking communities. On the other hand, I hear plenty about British TV shows and when I'm talking about them I usually identify them as such.

I think of junky/viral US products as 'americana' but yeah I suppose it should be formally classified as just another genre because they've claimed a default market dominance for a while now and everything else had to be labeled because it's not that default

To Westerners, these actually are different genres of storytelling medium. Each country's dramas have their own similarities

Just like how Chinese food is just food to Chinese people and a normal breakfast to Brits are known as English breakfast to Chinese people

Gonna start calling Breaking Bad a "us-drama".

i do actually do this, all american shows read the same to me, there's a very American facial expression they all make and American pacing and American humour (which makes me cringe)

Germans tried to create new type of music that wasn't the old (schlager) or the new (American rock music). When the english language press discovered it they nevertheless dubbed this new music as krautROCK. A name that became the definitive term the music is still known by

They are all insanely hot. It’s probably all the plastic surgery in korea