Q 01/05

Which playground game, watched by a giant doll based on a textbook character, is the first contest in 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 lets the 456 players move only while the doll's face is turned away, and anyone she catches moving is shot dead.

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 sweeps Se-ri over the border, where army captain Ri Jeong-hyeok finds her and decides to hide her instead of tur...

Q 03/05

What kind of being is Do Min-joon, the K-drama hero 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 in My Love from the Star: the premise grew from a real 1609 entry in Joseon's royal annals recording a mysterious flying object over Korea, a...

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 is written with the same two characters as zaibatsu, Japan's pre-war family combines; the Allied occupation broke those up, while Korea's chae...

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 journalists in Beijing in 1999, struck by the zeal of Chinese audiences for Korean television dramas and po...