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[mithridates]

Thought this article was hilarious so I translated it:

http://koreabeat.com/?p=186

Choi Min-sik (the guy from Old Boy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choi_Min-sik ) is doing a psychological thriller kind of play, serious and quiet. Everybody's paying attention except for an ajosshi and his wife, munching away on some dried squid. Finally a young woman tells them to stop eating squid and the ajosshi starts yelling about how young people like her should learn some manners.

[blaseblasphemener]

Canadian movie theaters are worse than Korean ones, IMO. The only lack of etiquette I've seen here is the cell phones turning on as soon as the lights dim, and the text messaging beginning.

[mindmetoo]

I was at the symphony in Seoul. There were some obvious musicians in seats near me (they had violins). One of them was text messaging away in the middle of a performance using a cell phone that made little musical sounds every time she pressed the keys. You would think if anyone understood something or another about respect for quiet, it would be a fellow musician.

And then there are the dolts who can't figure out you should plug in some headphones when you play your mindless cell phone game or, worse, watch TV on your cell phone.

And let's not forget this is the only nation on earth where a bunch of ajummas tramped each other to death rushing a concert stage.

[butlerian]

[HighTreason]

Yeah, in southern Georgia where I grew up, most people in the theatre are black, so the theatres are often so noisy and rowdy that you can barely hear the movie. This is actually getting better than it once was down there.

[Smee]

Thankfully, at least the audience was upset about it.

Here's another article, from the BBC:

[princess]

Nothing wrong with squid in a regular movie theater, but an actual performance of a broadway play or something? No way. Bad manners.

[Alan Partidge]

There's everything wrong with squid in any confined space let alone a movie theatre, but that's just my opinion.

From my experience here, there are more annoying phone users, but at home we get more punk teenagers in groups making arses of them selves. Although the really young kids and sometimes even babies in theatres here can be pretty annoying too.

[SPINOZA]

Movie theater etiquette is reasonable in Korea IMO but I probably just got lucky.

Vibrating phones left unattended on tables in our staffroom is the desease for me.

[IncognitoHFX]

[endo]

I was watching a movie a few weeks ago and a women made like three calls on he cell phone. It was annoying as hell and I finally told her to stuff it.


However, I remember back home there was a story in the newspaper where a man told a young adult to quiet down in a movie theater, and as a result the young adult put the man into a coma after the movie in the parking lot.


Canada > Korea ..... although this isn't a good thing.

[Hater Depot]

I nearly had a very enjoyable opera in the States ruined tonight by a tall man in front of me who just could not get comfortable. I just about wanted to smack him and make him move over into an unoccupied seat.

[darkhorse_NZ]

how about those stupid teens getting drunk and standing up and yelling obscenities at the screen


oops no...that was me

[jdog2050]

[princess]