Love Boat was a TV series aired on the
ABC Television Network from
1977 until
1986. Action was always set about a cruiseliner called
Pacific Princess, whose passengers and crew had romantic and funny adventures every week.
The show was based on the same premise as the 1956-60 television hit, "The Gale Storm Show, Oh! Susanna."
Love Boat is also the colloquial name for a
summer camp[?] in
Taiwan for about 500 college aged
overseas Chinese from the United States, Canada, and Europe each year sponsored by the
China Youth Corp[?] through the
Republic of China on
Taiwan government.
The camps formal purpose is to allow overseas Chinese to understand Chinese cultural, however many overseas Chinese see the camp as an effort by their parents to see that they meet and eventually marry someone who is Chinese, hence the name.
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