finally someone saying it. for me, it's somewhat entertaining to watch actors from both series acting cringe and doing unreasonable things, but i would never consider watching them again

Madison Americanizing the other students in the Breakfast Club scene made me cringe. It may be an American drama, but S. Korea has its own culture.

atleast emily in pais is entertaining and lily collins is a amazing actor but xo kitty...

Yet I somewhat liked Emily in Paris more!

They where both directed by the same person and XO Kitty was never supposed to be like a Kdrame, it was just an American show based in Korea.

That’s basically the main reason why she wanted to go the the school. Even when she presented the slide show to convince her dad to let her move to Korea the main reason was because of love. Wanting to find out more about her mom was secondary.

The Show always presented it as 'but also, my boyfriend is there" as the main excitement point for going overseas for school. Also, this is a 'to all the boys....' spinoff, which IS a goofy romantic comedy that isn't realistic to start with. This exists in the same world as those movies. So using goofy romantic tropes like the show uses is in tone of its parent films. It's literally not meant to be the serious story of a girl connecting to her mother that she never met. Like I am sure she wonders about her and for the character it's justified. But like a teenager, the issue right in front of her is her boyfriend issues. She's not fully matured or fully making the right choices for the right reasons. That's kinda the POINT and a point from which hopefully the character can see some growth.

4 ppl? i thought itd be just minho and uh her now ex boyfriend or smth 😭😭like who else is there then

@@calesnr1fanandworshipper I don't want to spoil it for you if you haven't finished yet. Lol

@@cataguti0 she said she was afraid of losing Dae as a friend. Basically jealousy.

LOL maybe it depends on the international school cus the international school in korea i went to had a LOT of students who would slack and party

@@hanabinix I think it depends what board you're doing because if an International School had IB then the students would be a lot more stressed out

lmao same i attended yonsei for a while and it was deada** mostly studying. but even those who had fun did it lowkey. it wasnt crazy.

i agree but tbh watching a series about them studying 24/7 would just be boring, in most of tv series/movies studying isn't shown nor does it represented a realistic school life

@@BlueBirdsFIyYonsei is not an international high school, but a Korean university.

This💀 it screams koreaboo energy

Lol😂

A little harsh but true

Kitty is half Korean though and wanted to be closer to her mom's roots. Westerners have made up useless words to ostracize people and koreaboo is one of those. Nothing wrong with wanting to learn about another culture.

wow that makes better sense....

For real! My mom and I watched it together and she and I would always rage whenever they would talk and he wouldn’t tell her

REAL

RIGHHT!! And why did it end like that… it was seriously so odd after watching so many kdramas

I hate bs like that. atp It's just bad writing.

Poor writing.

Yeah. You can tell that they are using these whitewashed k-dramas as a money grab rather than actual important representation of other cultures.

for real

exactly, i found it so strange for a korean family living in korea and barely even speaking their own language?? 😭 my asian parents would disown me

What's crazy is that (at least for Australia) they have heeeeaps of kdramas on Netflix for viewers to watch yet seemingly didn't even bother to cross reference them... Hell, some of the kdramas actually did put characters into different countries/cultural settings and contrasted things correctly so there's literally no excuse 😭

tbh it was never meant to even be 'koreanized" it also was never meant to be a "kdrama' its an a american show...so obivious. but i do agree it was a bit cringy at times but makes sense because it is an AMERICAN show.

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 a big misrepresentation especially from schools well funded

It feeds into the racist stereotype that all Asians are smart

Exactly some of it was very accurate!

This has happened to me when I went from Queensland to NSW and realized the grading expectations were different.

Happened in reverse. Came from a school from the Carrebean and end up skipping a grade back in the US.

I am a western girl but I know that korea is OBVIOUSLY not like it is seen in shows, movies etc. It's a very xenophobic country, unfortunately.

Ikr🥺

those koreaboos are literally just self inserting themselves through the white ginger girl 😭😭

As he should 😂🎉

Luckily I made it out of this fantasy before it was too late.

Damn, in Brazil we have a similar expression for this, ''Ter o senso''. The sentence can be translated into English ''Having a sense''. And there are tons of meanings, (critic sense, common sense, moral sense, humour sense, good sense). One of them is simply: 'Having a clear judgment, prudence, discernment. Knowing, being aware of your acts in society.' So if anyone doesn't 'have a sense', they'll be just like Kitty.

ME BEING AN IDIAN HERE THINKING ARE KOREANS LIKE THIS???? AIN'T THEY PART OF ASIA OR WHAT????

wdym??? what are asians supposed to think like 💀@@user-tt1df5wh9t

@vluessky @@vig4259 heyy I'm French Canadian and we also have an expression like this! if you say "y'a pas d'allure" about someone it would translate to "they have no sense", "they don't know how to carry themselves", "they have no style", etc. This expression can be used in approval of what the person did or said, and can be used many contexts. it's mostly used as judgement towards one's actions, manners or way they present themselves. Kitty al'a pas d'allure tbh 😭

@@that_fucker_is_back Wow, amazing! Pretty similar, hehe! 🤠

Right.

True that

Sounds like 8ts taking the 90s and 2000s movie Boomer route with high school life, where high school is portrayed as wild, when in reality that is not the case.

I’m a teenager and I have never done drugs, smoke, have sex, or drink. But I still go to parties, you don’t need to be doing all those thing to have fun. Also some of my friends are also like this except they vape. Some ppl will think I’m boring for not doing those things, but at least I’m not a addicted to any drugs, I’m not pregnant, I’m not an alcoholic, and at least I’m talking care myself instead of wasting money on those things.

@@Armand0627 Good on you kid, do what you want and don't bend to negative peer pressure for anyone, not even your "friends". Older you will be thankful that you have a good head on your shoulders rn.

netflix need a reminder about its not about america.

LMAOO

Idk I found that amusing 🤣 No, but seriously at least they toned it down after a few episodes, because in the 1-2 they kinda played kpop songs constantly and it was too much. Like Minho's entrance to Hot was iconic and very well fitted but most of the other songs were just there. I appreciated them ofc and was jamming to them but whaaat?

For real though i could just be watching the most random scene in that show and all of a suddently *kpop starts playing*

@@bogik.3047 and when I can’t stop me suddenly played 💀

That's helpful. Thanks

The portray more of an American culture in Korea.

@@citamora yeah i think its more reflective of 2nd gen immigrant life in america or smth but i think i heard the say in an interview its supposed to be a 'blend' of korean and american teen dramas

Im not korean and i noticed that this show dont represent Korea at all , and the high schools there. in my opinion

Well talking about portraying culture, neither do some kdrams have done it realistically. I have seen so many kdrams portraying foreign culture like black people or Indian people and man the stereotype??? It was insane and very much disturbing. As an indian, one of the scenes really made me feel weird. I think this is not the problem of only one country. In every film/drama industry, all around the world, most of them portray the stereotypes only of what THEY know and they don't even try to research before showing foreign cultures. The film industry here has did it too and it annoys me. Why can't the directors at least research a bit. I hope this situation improves for every industry and country out there.

same man..i am wondering how it's trending on Netflix rn...

The school was international tho? 😂

She went to a private boarding school filled with foreign exchange students

I swear, what happened to baking a whole cake on the protagonist because she's weird?

Her name is Anna Cathcart not Kitty 😭 (it's okay tho)

even I didn't like it/

I'm a 'younger people' didn't like it one bit, before the reviews to me it just felt so fake, like i didn't understand it

yep i watched it and for me it was like the korean version of emily in paris. A female american character goes to a foreign country with little to no knowledge of cultural sensitivity and does crazy stuff and as usual everyone’s ok with it because they depict the cultural differences so badly. I cringed so hard when she kept bumping into ppl every time she walked on the streets. I think they wanted her to look quirky and clumsy but she just came off as obnoxious and annoying.

I think I'm part of the younger that you're refuring to and honestly I only watched it cause I was bored and I liked Kitty's character originally. Honestly she was nothing like the fierce girl I remembered and the show made me loose braincells

Please, i'm younger and i did not like it. I could bear the cringe because i found the plot interesting in the first half, but by the end of the season no characters remained likable to me.

yesss!! I'm Malaysian Chinese so watching this really made cringe sometimes LOL. It really highlighted huge differences between Asian and Western culture

@@JcaHalim hi im also malaysian 🤣

why are you having an existensial crisis when youre not even east asian?? im korean myself but im not being dramatic about it while y'all are having "existensial crisis" like bffr💀youre not even participating in any east asian culture enough to be crying about it literally stay in your lane

Hi guyss i'm Indonesian... We're neighbor😂

Hi, I'm Malaysian too and haven't watched the show (I don't have Netflix but my mom does). From the clips I see online, I think it's more or less an American teen drama series set in Korea instead 😂

Thats exactly what I thought. It felt like a Koreaboo thinking all the hot Korean guys would think she was "exotic" when shes just ugly in their standards.

Not only her looks but also her personality. Like I don't think she respects Korean culture at all. She doesn't look like she tried enough to learn Korean and as their teacher said not everyone's on her timetable but she expects Q to root of her 24/7 and I think that was very selfish and self-centered of her.

Reallllllllll........in reality they would most likely have bullied her back to the States

I dont think you know Korean beauty standards if you think she would be considered ugly

no she wouldn’t… theres korean students who fit the beauty standards way less than her and dont get bullied. you think you have to be a supermodel to not be bullied in south korea??

Maybe because I'm not an *EAST* asian i don't understand why. Could you explain your view?

I hated who played the main character her teeth triggered me each and everytime sorry not sorry

​​@@Lilac_TaylorsVer it's like 'lets try to make a dorama but make it american"

with what?

​@@allanamaya6103this is incredible how conditioned people are to expect boring perfect ideal visuals. I found it cute and refreshing. Not everyone needs veneers. I actually hate the look of them, usually they look so artificial.

omg same-

Yesss exactly. The not buying shoe part was so unrealistic, like they tried showing him dirt poor like in Parasite, when he was so far away from that he was definitely middle class.

As an Indian I'm kind of happy they got to feel what I feel with the way Indian culture is shown in some kdramas.

They do? Omg recommendations??

Omg same... I tried so hard to look for the positive side but the way they kept Americanizing the whole Korean culture was getting on my nerves.

I agree with you. I am a asian too.

Indeed !!! ..😂😂

AHAHAAHAHAHA YOU MADE MY DAY

I don't think you understand this is an international school filled with UPPER MIDDLE CLASS AND WEALTHY PEOPLE

Also, a school, which Yuri said, "KISS is filled with foreign students you'll fit right in

@@CDavis937 None of that explains this. The clips like in the cafetaria still show most of them are Korean, and it plays out in Korea. To then have the students be obsessed with sex, kissing, partying etc. is beyond unrealistic. Them being upper middle class or rich makes no difference to this, being rich doesn't erase Korean culture from your family? Many upper middle class and wealthy people are even MORE pressured to do well in the already insanely competitive academics of Korea, because their family doesn't want them to be a '''failure'' as they will most likely inherit some sort of wealth. Even Kitty herself needed tutoring when she went to Korea even though she was the top of her class in America, this in and of itself shows how hard her school was, yet somehow all the students are busy with parties all the time? And even if you tried to excuse the entire BS about the school, them showing the mom so easily accept that her daughter is gay was insanely lazy writing. They went from fearing for their coming out the whole time, to suddenly being accepted because Netflix needed a happy ending even if it is beyond rare. It is undeniable that this movie was written for a western audience, specifically an american one, and is COMPLETELY inaccurate to Korean culture. Just because there are foreign students in the school doesnt excuse bad writing. A few foreign students dont get rid of koreas homophobia, or how strict the exams and schools are there, or how students arent focusing on partying and sex all the time. If they wanted this movie to make a little more sense, they shouldve just made it about a korean student coming to america, why even bother with representation when you just wanna turn it into america like always?

​@@CDavis937uhh... No thats far from the reality... When ur in a noble or wealthy family ur expected to do well in ur academic, sure they party and what not.. But not like the one in the show

Fr

Yes exactly!

Real.

I will never understand why it always have to be a high school. I am still bitter how Fast and Furious Tokyio Drift has to be a story about high school kids, when it is clearly collage standard... So many movies make no sense for that exact reason. Young adults are different than teenagers

@@soleil7259 EXACTLY!! High school students aren’t free from consequences just cus they’re minors. The media shouldn’t even be perpetuating this idea that it’s the perfect place for carelessness and lack of accountability cus that’s when things escalate

this hits every single nail on the head, i love the chaos of the show but it could've done so much better

I didn't even think it was a kdrama at first based on the clips i saw. I thought it was an American show also based on how popular it is lmao

@@ellulove7543 to all the boys I loved before was very popular that’s true. I guess my expectations were too high for this show 😅

@@ellulove7543IT IS omggg why do people keep talking bout the show like it’s advertised as a k-drama lol it’s not. It’s literally an American romantic Comedy. Treating it like a k-drama or expecting it to be was setting yourself up. Like it’s based in Korea but she is going to an international where most kids there aren’t Korean.

@Oyin Olubayo okay yeah it makes more sense, thanks. I was like, where y'all see the kdrama?

@@oyinolubayo7079 I’m not saying I thought the show was gonna be just like a kdrama. I was saying the show could have been a little different agreeing with this video because of the different cultures and them trying to squeeze in every American aspect on Korean culture just wasn’t really fair. I’m just saying they could have done better in that department allowing us viewers, maybe that have never seen how they act their or never seen any Kdramas to actually get a feel for what it could be like there instead of just giving us the American culture. I understand the show is literally from America but if your gonna incorporate a different culture, at least make it right 🤦‍♀️

That’s such a lie. Hispanics are known to have the biggest and extravagant parties with a lot of nudity like carnaval etc. Hispanics are the complete opposite of Asians. Hispanic behave more like westerners like being wild, dressing sexual, drinking alcohol, partying, gang culture etc. There’s a reason for the wild Latina stereotype.

It seems the makers of the show didn't even watch any kdramas to get the idea of cultural norms 😂

Same with Soulaan parents too! I agree with everything you said!

Black families can be like this as well

What part are you from? Where i live this is all common

😂😂😂my exact same thoughts on everything precisely

for real i disliked Minho

how is maddison asian fetishizing

@@pluto3603 exactly like people are throwing around labels these days

as a kdrama fan, this show is crap.

Took words right of my mouth. I'm not a South Korean but as an Asian myself I was so so suprised by how Westernized the school was cause even tho it's an international school it's still based on South Korea so like wtf? There are so many plot holes and I think Kitty possibly being Bi and Minho liking her seems kinda push and out of no where. And Kitty's lucky it was an international school cause if it was a normal Korean HS she would be bullied so much not even because she's a foreigner but more so because of her characteristics. The story looks like it came from delusional cringy K-pop fanfic in Wattpad.

OMG THIS IS EXACTLY MY THOUGHTS! I am not Korean either but same I felt the same. And I was very disappointed with Kitty's character too! Same here with the scene where she got on the table like gurl! No one would do that and get away with it like what were you thinking! Also, I am Indian, and as Madison (I think) told to Kitty, putting your legs up at the place you eat is a big no no here too.

Who tf said it's just like a kdrama😭😭😭😭😭....have they watched kdramas. Romance kdramas are slow and cute and cringe yh but the cute and sweet type of cringe that makes you smile and blush.......but XO Kitty was the type of cringe that would make you gag and throw your phone against the wall.

The car ‘accident’ scene was kinda unrealistic because in Korea you have to wait for the signal for crossing the road to be green and even if you don’t do that be careful while crossing the road because a lot of times Korean truck drivers drives the truck in full speed so it can get you in serious accident. And instead they would yell at you for coming in front of them. The driver of yuri was rather right about it. ( mind you I’m not Korean but rather I got this information from actual Koreans)

ur name, that pfp, and this comment scream koreaboo jesus christ

But what is really wrong with that?

It becomes a problem when that culture is being misrepresented and being looked at through rose-tinted glasses. You're on the high but once that wears off, reality hits as subtle as a ton of bricks. Nothing is necessarily wrong with romanticizing something but if that causes you to ignore reality as whole then it becomes a problem.

i’m glad i never had that

Bro, we Asian are literally the same

@@howyoudoin8319 yah dude. Where are you from?

not every country is like your India People have good close friends among opposite gender and it's not taboo lol

@@pikachuthunderbolt3919 im indian and i have close guy friends too, you cant generalise the whole country, it depends on the parents etc. like in more urban places talking to guys and being friends is normal but in rural areas talking to boys is frowned upon

@@pikachuthunderbolt3919 bruh having opposite gender friend is common but its not the same as portrayed in the show like hugging in public and stuff is something frowned upon and you are judged to be dating that person and its like that in almost every asian country i know, also you be going on generalising a whole country based on one comment you saw. in the op's comment he/she mentioned how the pressure of studies is not as extreme as south korea which might not be true for many, like for me personally its as extreme as any other south korean or chinese or asian. also he/she never mentioned his/her country just stated south asian then how can you even assume his/her nationality? bruh grow up

Tbf they did acknowledge that but still said that even international schools aren't that lax. Tho ig in Taiwan it's different.

Taiwan doesnt have anything to do with xo kitty and its plot.

Fr even if they wanted to put kpop they could’ve done some research and find some underrated groups and artists and put their songs in the show according to the situation.

@@bangtanmoosahu yeah like it's so funny how they started playing maniac and can't stop me which didn't even fit the plot lol

​@@tangerinu_u like i love those songs but i bursted out laughing when i heard one song (i don't remember which one tho)

@@villain__9 for me it was can't stop me and maniac lol

@@tangerinu_u ikr 😭 i know i didn't laugh at maniac but that was one of the worst ones, i cringed

It was an international school in Seoul...thr curriculum is US-based not Korean-based. I went to an international school in Seoul and some parts are true but the show definitely lacked more info on what students in those schools do.

@@cocol3097 ohhhhh.....thanks for the info.

Yeah and also not to mention the writer and director Jenny Han is a Korean American who never lived in Korea before.

​@Coco L regardingless....the international school in S.Korea is Not like that. If they are going to base it of of that...then they need to dicpict it closer to that.

I was also surprised about her dad just agreeing because even in the US, sending a high schooler on their own like that isn’t too common

It just made me laugh everytime

It was so weird 💀

Right it didn’t even go with the scene most of the time

@@Munchaee fr it was just random songs that didnt even fit with the scenes

especially when they put blackpink and then somi randomly 😭

Ong so true.

The story is set in Korea and he can only speak for Korean because he is Korean so you guess. But as asian - Filipino, we're more loose compared to Koreans when it comes to studying and partying so can't really say these traits speak for all Asians. Some are unique to Koreans

applies on Indonesia too, lol. and it's 101% correct. here, a rule every parents know is, "no sex before marriage."

@@nanakorobiyaoki9191basically most country of asean is like korean parents.

well yes korea is in asia

Its keep saying" Korean don't do this, Korean don't do that m" but none of these Kids were actually Korean and those who were lived abroad(exept for Dae) now i'm starting to think I'm the only one who noticed it.

pls note the director is a Korean American who never lived in Korea

I think he's not even trying to investigate, I'm Mexican and believe that my country always appears in the middle of a desert with a sepia filter.The women and men with mostly unrealistic clothing, if they don't even investigate a country that is so close, even less would they investigate a country that is on the other side of the sea

Just like how French hate Emily in Paris, not to mention all the cringy streotype regarding french culture and somehow all the hottest man simp over the great american lady.

tbh America fails to represent cultures inside itself as well. As a black American, I cringe watching shows or movies meant for us but written by non blk americans 😭 it’s always some stereotypical plot with a few elements of black culture anyone could implement without actually studying.. not to mention how it’s portrayed outside of US 😅

Japan portrays Americans based on their own, India has done it, Korean has done it before too even with religion. Even Turkish dramas as well.

THIS IS TOO ACCURATE 😭 if theyre not criticizing you 24/7 are they even an asian mom

The non-homophobic parent part is so true💀 The country that i live in, India, had a HUGE problem with LGBTQ+ members. Even though our government is trying, it's all in vain.

@@sunjiwoo5061 Thx bro (I guess) 😭😭😭

@@slayfaee FRFR

@@Lilac_TaylorsVer Brooo fr

Exactly😂

It happened in a couple of schools I went to and my friends went too

Also I was confused with how easily she developed a relationship with the aussie teacher (alex?). Like i get it they are somewhat same age but seeing a teacher start hanging out with a student just seemed weird

Well hs house was basically on campus so it's not as weird as it seems imo

Not like Black American culture..which is so wholesome and accepting

You sure about black American culture being wholesome…because there’s a whole lot of colorism, racism, and poverty.

@@hiim4212 sarcasm

@@slee2695 What does that have to do with my comment? I'm not even American so I'm not even sure what your trying to say here.

@@onceafetus426 ​​⁠they just saw your black profile picture and had to talk about it …i wonder if they did this with white profile pictures that had similar opinions. Doubt it. The world is obsessed with us , it’s okay .

It's so beautiful... I rewatched that part like four times and laughed harder each time.

There are still some asians that do that. Her mom was one of them.

My dad said that to me a few times but you will NEVER EVER hear it from my mum 😭 ps: dad is malay and mum is chinese

As an Asian myself I started laughing at that line cause an Asian parent would NEVER say that 😂

​@@tbakhalid4781 well, it's sad then...

He does skits like that but a bit more exaggerated for humor

as an indian me too , Though i haven't done anything amazing 🙂

the katara effect

Yeah but her friend told her standing on tables and making speeches is disrespectful here so don't do that. It's not like nobody called her out when she was doing this stuff.

​@@chikannnn Fr 😂😂