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passport220 · Joined: 14 Jun 2006 Location: Gyeongsangbuk-do province

The following would be better suited for a thread titled �Mildly amusing on YouTube� In the absents of such a thread her ya go.

Asians and hula hoops:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=8lwKkyAXtVI

http://youtube.com/watch?v=ctV95kV5mK4&mode=user&search=

http://youtube.com/watch?v=4bdob6IBIsc

Gatsby · Joined: 09 Feb 2007

Here's the official anthem of all expats:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdEnxNog56E

Mad Dogs and Englishmen

By Noel Coward

Enjoy.

kimchi story · Joined: 23 Nov 2006

In a corner of the Bistro Boheme in Stockholm...

Local: I don't see why you say the next Fast and Furious couldn't possibly be Stockholm Drift.

Tourist: Volvo's can't drift, fool, they're phukkin' tanks! THAT'S the joke! Meh...whatever, Volvo's made by Ford now anyway...

Local: You want tanks!? You want TANKS!?

And what follows is this.

flummuxt · Joined: 15 Mar 2007

You want tanks?

Then check out Frank and the Tank:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=cE5z7WxLuVI

Say, did you know there used to be a series on television about Korea?

No kidding!

How come it's not on cable here?

swetepete · Joined: 01 Nov 2006 Location: a limp little burg

Good question...maybe because it's really about Americans, and there's practically no Koreans in it?

Been a while sine I watched it, but I loved that show when I was a kid. The only Koreans on it I can remember are 1) an ajumma (Polly?) who ran a bar (the Kettle?), 2) a laundry boy (Short-round?), and 3) actually there is no 3.

And I think they made about 500 episodes of that show without ever once mentioning kimchi or soju. Maybe that's why they don't like it here: it portrays 1950s Korea as a backdrop, populated solely by a bunch of kindly, traumatized peasants, incapable of doing anything for themselves, and more useful as a generic proxy for the Vietnamese peasants that the show's audience was really thinking about, but was not ready to see on a comedy show.

Maybe there was more 'Korean' in it than that, but if so, it failed to make an impression on my young mind.

As an essentially unrelated side note, I do wonder what the Germans think of 'Hogan's Heroes...'

kimchi story · Joined: 23 Nov 2006

Dang, swetepete, I hadn't figured the Vietnam connection - that's absolutely the case. I thought I had a coupla seasons but it ended up being the original movie - which centers around the curing of Painless's 'latent homosexuality'. Between the original movie and the series that followed, there's a graduate thesis waiting to happen.

swetepete · Joined: 01 Nov 2006 Location: a limp little burg

The movie's great. I saw it for the first time a few years ago...the Trapper John/ Hawkeye tandom in it is vicious, eh? And that's got to be Duvall's best role, I'd say.

kimchi story · Joined: 23 Nov 2006

Yeah, and it's my favorite Sutherland, too. I think he's pretty cool all around, but as Hawkeye he puts the ice in the potbingsu - very cool.

flummuxt · Joined: 15 Mar 2007

I remember there was a teenage Korean boy on the show who was a sort of medical assistant. I think they were helping him in a sort of pre-med way. I'm not sure though.

What I do remember clearly is that he was due to be drafted. So they said, no problem, and hyped him up on some drugs to raise his blood pressure, etc. From all the stuff, he was pretty out of it. Then they drove him into town, dropped him at the place for his induction physical, and said they would be back to pick him up.

But the Korean doctors were wise to all the standard tricks, and saw right through the kid -- perhaps they also knew of his American military connection. At any rate, he was drafted. His American buddies were pretty broken up to see him go.

It's been a while since I saw the television show. It would be interesting seeing it now, with first-hand knowledge of Korea, though this experience is of limited value, given how much the country has changed.

If anyone sees the movie or tv DVDs available here, please post it!

I don't think the show or movie was derogatory to Korea; it was too busy being derogatory toward Americans. And yes, I think Korea was a surrogate for Vietnam. No way a comedy about Vietnam could have been made at that time. And I suspect the shenanegans by the doctors in MASH would not have been allowed in the Korea War, but might have in Vietnam.

BTW, if you want to learn more about America's role in the Korean War, here is a speech from April 11, 1951 by Harry Truman on the subject:

http://webstorage4.mcpa.virginia.edu/hst/audiovisual/speeches/spe_1951_0411_truman.mp3

or: http://millercenter.virginia.edu/scripps/digitalarchive/speechDetail/25

Sorry, no video on the whole speech. But there is this:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=i0tAvIed9ko

http://youtube.com/watch?v=-FfdsHP1UWU

MacArthur supposedly expected to be begged to run for president. Eisenhower got that honor, instead.

While not about Korea, this speech by Truman is pretty interesting:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=lJeFlB1Q8EA&mode=related&search=

kimchi story · Joined: 23 Nov 2006

flummuxt · Joined: 15 Mar 2007

Anyone having trouble sticking with their diet may find inspiration in the following video clip:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=SVkFFFsZUYA

I know I do. Sometimes I don't eat for a week after watching Brother Theodore.

Brother Theodore was a genius, quite lilterally.

http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Academy/8135/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brother_Theodore

wylies99 · Joined: 13 May 2006 Location: I'm one cool cat!

passport220 · Joined: 14 Jun 2006 Location: Gyeongsangbuk-do province

paquebot · Joined: 20 Jun 2007 Location: Northern Gyeonggi-do

Speaking of drifting in Sweden, you should see how female residents parallel park in Stockholm. None of this backing-up nonsense that you see in North America:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rlcq6HBTiqw

robot · Joined: 07 Mar 2006

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