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The show - which also features “Lost” star Yunjin Kim as KISS’ head of school - releases one month after Netflix’s public commitment to spending $2.5 billion on South Korean film and TV production over the next four years.

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With various K-pop songs sprinkled throughout the series and the soapy parallels to K-dramas (“Boys Over Flowers,” anyone?), “XO, Kitty” pushes itself into territory that further indicates the prevalence of Korean culture as a global phenomenon. Characters switch seamlessly between Korean and English in one scene, a student speaks Greek, then French, then English in rapid succession. The show tosses Kitty into the world of international school and exemplifies its multicultural focus not only in location, but through its dialogue, needle drops and narrative inspiration. But when she shows up to the school, she quickly discovers that she’s signed up for much more than what she’d planned. After successfully convincing her father (John Corbett) and stepmother (Sarayu Rao) to let her go, Kitty jets off to Korea on a mission to better understand her heritage and surprise Dae.

Now an intrepid high school junior, Kitty applies for and receives a scholarship to the Korean International School of Seoul (also known as KISS), which is the school her mother went to - and the one her boyfriend Dae (Choi Min-young) attends. “They were like, ‘No, we’re serious, we want this to be a real thing.’” She says that many different ideas about the show were tossed around, but the main synopsis always stayed the same: “It was always going to be Kitty in high school, and I think that could have been manifested in different ways.” Cathcart tells Variety that conversations about a possible Kitty spinoff began when she was shooting the third “To All the Boys” film.

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