Grandpas Over Flowers
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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).
Grandpas Over Flowers | |
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Also known as | Grandfathers Over Flowers Halbae Over Flowers |
Hangul | 꽃보다 할배 |
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Revised Romanization | Kkotboda Halbae |
McCune–Reischauer | Kkotpoda Halbae |
Genre | Variety show |
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Country of origin | South Korea |
Original language | Korean |
No. of seasons | 5 |
No. of episodes | 38 |
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Executive producer | Lee Myung-han |
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Running time | 70 minutes |
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Network | tvN |
Release | July 5, 2013 (2013-07-05) – August 24, 2018 (2018-08-24) |
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Sisters Over Flowers Youth Over Flowers |
The series stars four veteran actors in their seventies[1] — 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.[2][3][4][5][6][7]
Grandpas Over Flowers became a cultural phenomenon, receiving high ratings for a Korean cable program and spawning several spin-offs and remakes.[8]