This week when looking for an episode or movie to watch, I searched Netflix for shows that were not in English, but included English subtitles so that I could understand the cultural differences. I watched the first episode of a Korean show called Boys over Flowers. This show is “The story of Geum Jan-di, a normal girl who finds herself attending a prestigious private school after saving a student’s life.”

Within this show I noticed immediately differences between our culture and the culture of the show. In the first scenes, students were on campus riding horses ad golf carts to get around. This is not a normal experience for most school in the United States of America.

Something that I found interesting was that they talked about how once students were registered at this certain school, they followed it all the way up to university.

Something similar to our culture that was spoken about in this episode was taking the SAT. Students who didnt go to this school were concerned with getting into college. The people in this episode traveled by train often which is common in large cities with a high population.

A difference in this culture was the food that they ate. The main character ate foods like rice and some type of meat and so e other foods that I did not recognize. The other characters ate fancier, more expensive Korean foods.

This show touches a lot on the subject of economic situations as the main character comes from a family with no money and the other characters in the school seem to be wealthy. This difference is brought to light throughout the episode.

Thanks for reading!!

-Carly Thompson