Grandpas Over Flowers (2013)

Original title

꽃보다 할배

Genre

reality television

Country

South Korea

Length

5 seasons, 48 episodes

Rated

15

Rating

9.2 of 10 from 5 voters

How it feels

Four veteran actors in their seventies go on backpacking trips to foreign countries. A younger actor accompanies them to help with the travel logistics.

lightheartedleisurelygentleaffectionatenostalgicwhimsicalslow-pacedendearing

What happens

Grandpas Over Flowers (Korean: 꽃보다 할배; RR: Kkotboda halbae) is a South Korean travel-reality show that airs on tvN. The title is a word play/parody of Boys Over Flowers (花より男子, Hana Yori Dango), a popular Japanese manga about four handsome young men (Boys Over Flowers also refers to the 2009 adaptation of the manga from South Korea). The series stars four veteran actors in their seventies — Lee Soon-jae, Shin Goo, Park Geun-hyung and Baek Il-seob — as they go on a backpacking tour to overseas travel destinations alongside Lee Seo-jin, an actor in his forties. Grandpas Over Flowers became a cultural phenomenon, receiving high ratings for a Korean cable program and spawning several spin-offs and remakes. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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