According to PopCrush, while in South Korea promoting the first-person shooter multiplayer PC game Sudden Attack, Chloë Grace Moretz made history: She became the first American to have a guest appearance on Korea’s version of Saturday Night Live. Moretz performed in a Korean-language sketch with comedian Yoo Se-yoon, and it’s pretty fantastic. The sketch actually plays on the strangeness of Moretz’s presence on the show, as she plays a local boy’s American girlfriend who seems to have prepared to meet the parents by studying too many K-dramas.
Instead of having a strong grasp on actual cultural customs—or what people wear, for that matter—she keeps overreacting to everything said, acting like a Korean soap opera character. Her reactions grow increasingly over-the-top until she’s literally slapping her boyfriend with kimchi. According to AllKPop, that bit is a play on a famous scene from Everybody, Kimchi!, a Korean comedy-drama series from 2014 about a woman who starts her own kimchi business. You don’t have to know Korean to figure out the straightforward sketch premise, especially since a lot of it relies on Moretz’s physical performance (she speaks Korean, too). Slapping someone with kimchi is funny in any language.