[article] TV shows spotlight new ways of communication

Credit: The Korea Herald
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Digital friends listen to stars’ secrets on ‘My Ear’s Candy,’ while ‘Babel 250’ has participants create own language

In Spike Jonze’s 2013 romantic science fiction comedy “Her,” a man converses with and eventually falls in love with the feminine voice of his computer operating system.

Inspired by the film, tvN’s “My Ear’s Candy,” currently airing Thursdays at 11 p.m., is based on a similar premise: Celebrities tell intimate secrets to an unknown confidante via their cellphone.

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