Grandpas Over Flowers

Grandpas Over Flowers
Also known asGrandfathers Over Flowers
Halbae Over Flowers
Hangul
꽃보다 할배
Hanja
Revised RomanizationKkotboda Halbae
McCune–ReischauerKkotpoda Halbae
GenreVariety show
Written by
  • Lee Woo-jung
  • Lee Eon-joo
  • Kim Jeong-mi
  • Park Shin-hye
  • Choi Eun-sol
  • Lee Da-som
Directed by
Starring
Country of originSouth Korea
Original languageKorean
No. of seasons5
No. of episodes38
Production
Executive producerLee Myung-han
Production locations
Running time70 minutes
Original release
NetworktvN
ReleaseJuly 5, 2013 (2013-07-05) –
August 24, 2018 (2018-08-24)
Related
Sisters Over Flowers
Youth 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).

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]

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  2. ^ Lee, Sun-min (19 April 2013). "1 Night, 2 Days producer returns". Korea JoongAng Daily. Retrieved 11 September 2014.
  3. ^ Lee, Sun-min (24 May 2013). "New hiking reality show gets a name". Korea JoongAng Daily. Archived from the original on June 29, 2013. Retrieved 11 September 2014.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  4. ^ Woo, Jae-yeon (19 July 2014). "Golden Guys Get Good Ratings". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 11 September 2014.
  5. ^ Park, Jin-hai (23 July 2013). "'I want to flip ideas': Star producer speaks of variety show on old gents". The Korea Times. Retrieved 11 September 2014.
  6. ^ Yun, Suh-young (4 March 2014). "Joy of the road: Producer Nah talks about new season of Halbae (grandpas) Over Flowers". The Korea Times. Retrieved 11 September 2014.
  7. ^ Jin, Eun-soo (7 March 2014). "Grandpas back, but as abuelos". Korea JoongAng Daily. Retrieved 11 September 2014.
  8. ^ Baek, Byung-yeul (24 August 2014). "tvN leads cable network boom". The Korea Times. Retrieved 11 September 2014.