TV series - Sky Castle

Moxue and Damul watch Korean drama together.

Non native Speaker's perspective (Moxue) - Native Speaker (Damul)

Sky castle, 2018 ‧ Drama, 1 season

A satirical drama that closely looks at the materialistic desires of the upper-class parents in South Korea and how they ruthlessly secure the successes of their families at the cost of destroying others' lives.

Existed Information

• Additonal information that pop up while watching the drama.

  ex) meaning of KMO,IMO, and 학생부종합전형

  

Information

• Education system

  • Upper-class parents obsessed their children's education, especially meducal school which is the top university.
  • Steatic piramid of University ranking
    • The meaning of the drama title is three universities which are top 3 uni that 1% student can enter.
  • Pravite education system
    • Coordinator : a pravite tutor, Not only help to study but also everything related to the score and school life. For instance,checking student's room environement fit to study or not.
    • Portfolio :

• Cultural + Language

  • "밥이나 한 끼 먹지 Eat some meal later" which sound like have a meal together but in the context, it can be translated as talking friendly to others 'see you later', not actually having a meal.

  • "터가 좋다" Which is literally says that location is good, but it is linked as a fung-su.

  • "뽕짝Bong" It translated as a Korean Traditional Song, but it is totally wrong. It is one of genre of the music which it called as teuroteu.

    

• Use English words a a lot

  • ex) know-how, party, dress, Thank you, road map, table setting, candle, all the time..etc

Editted by Damul

Editted by Damul