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Analysis Of The Movie ' Sassy Go Going Go '

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Korean TV dramas also illustrate the distortion of the Confucius virtue, filial piety, surrounding the life of students in dramas such as Sassy Go Go (Balchikhage Gogo, 2015) and Who Are You: School 2015 (Hooayoo- Hakgyo 2015). In Sassy Go Go we are introduced to Kwon Soo-ah, a high school student whose mother’s ambition is to ensure that she will be accepted into Harvard University, an Ivy League school in America. The first episode demonstrates a scene were Kwon Soo-ah meets her mother at school but she doesn’t ask about anything other than her studies. She’s angry that Kwon Soo-ah ranked second in the class, and makes it clear that kind of failure won’t be tolerated again. This type of behavior is routine throughout the drama where Kwon Soo-ah continues to place in second, obtaining the first rank once through malicious acts but then has it taken away and is demerited once her acts are revealed. Clearly, this illustrates how the pressure that the parents place upon the child can cause dire consequences to the child’s state of mind. As the audience follows Kwon Soo Ah the series we see how there are instances where she wants to stop competing with others and simply befriend them or ask forgiveness for her extreme actions. However, her mother hinders her from doing what she deems to be morally correct. Similarly, we see this pattern in the drama Who Are You: School 2015 through class president Park Min Joon. There is a particular scene in the beginning of episode eight

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