Q 01/05

Which playground game, watched by a giant doll based on a textbook character, opens Squid Game?

A) Musical Chairs

B) Rock Paper Scissors

C) Red Light, Green Light

D) Duck Duck Goose

Answer · why

C) Red Light, Green Light

Red Light, Green Light opens the contest, and its robot doll was modelled on Young-hee, a girl who appeared on the covers of South Korean textbooks in...

Q 02/05

In Crash Landing on You, which hobby carries heiress Yoon Se-ri over the border into North Korea?

A) Hot-air ballooning

B) Paragliding

C) Skydiving

D) Kitesurfing

Answer · why

B) Paragliding

Paragliding goes wrong when a tornado blows Se-ri into the North, where army captain Ri Jeong-hyeok finds her. The finale's 21.7% rating was a record ...

Q 03/05

In My Love from the Star, what kind of being is Do Min-joon, unaged since he arrived in Joseon in 1609?

A) An alien

B) A vampire

C) A time traveller

D) A fallen angel

Answer · why

A) An alien

An alien who arrived in 1609 during the Joseon period, Do Min-joon falls for the actress next door, Cheon Song-yi, played by Jun Ji-hyun of My Sassy G...

Q 04/05

Which Korean term for family-run giants like Samsung and Hyundai also tags K-drama's rich heirs?

A) Keiretsu

B) Zaibatsu

C) Chaebol

D) Guanxi

Answer · why

C) Chaebol

Chaebol are the family-controlled conglomerates that dominate South Korea's economy: in 2019 the revenue of the largest, Samsung, was worth about 17% ...

Q 05/05

Which term for the worldwide boom in Korean pop culture was coined by Chinese journalists in 1999?

A) Hanbok

B) Hallyu

C) Hangul

D) Hanok

Answer · why

B) Hallyu

Hallyu, the Korean Wave, got its name from Chinese journalists in 1999, after the 1997 broadcasts of First Love and Star in My Heart in China set off ...