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Hotel Cheonan

Joined: 08 Apr 2003 Location: Gwangju
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ulsanchris
Joined: 19 Jun 2003 Location: take a wild guess
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Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2003 6:16 pm Post subject: |
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| I'll be sure to watch it when it comes out on dvd |
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Joe Thanks

Joined: 01 Oct 2003 Location: Dudleyville
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Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2003 6:53 pm Post subject: Re: Please Teach Me English |
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http://www.koreaherald.co.kr/SITE/data/html_dir/2003/10/29/200310290040.asp
Just read about this new movie on the Korea Herald website. Wonder why it took so long for a movie like this to come out? Wonder what the female Aussie teachers will think? |
The adopted sister angle. Yawn. Gratuitous. If only they'd pay attention to the real problem facing adoptees in Korea.
The rest sound sweet, but I will remain suspicious until I see it, namely because Korean cinema's writers and directors tend to portray foreigners as if they never really know any, personally.
Cheers,
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Hotel Cheonan

Joined: 08 Apr 2003 Location: Gwangju
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Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2003 7:18 pm Post subject: |
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| I wonder if this will be shown entirely in Korean, or have subtitles? |
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katydid

Joined: 02 Feb 2003 Location: Here kitty kitty kitty...
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Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2003 7:39 pm Post subject: |
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I can't wait for this to come out on DVD. I would love to gather a bunch of us together, pile into a DVD Room and see it for ourselves. I'm looking forward to how they portray the hagwan/conversation environement. They already threw in the "zoo/Jew" joke in the article.
Just one question about the plot. WHY is the Australian girl in love with a pizza delivery guy? I'm not being classist, it's just that whenever I talk to a pizza delivery guy, the conversation obviously isn't much. Does the Australian teacher know much Korean?
And with the Korean guy in "love" with his teacher, you can guess where this movie's plot will go, especially with the "nerdy" Korean girl student in the mix. She'll just take off her glasses and va va va voom.
The day we see a Korean guy end up with a Western girl in a movie is the day the sun will turn black.
Anyways, if you're lucky enough to see the movie in the theaters, drop a review in here. I'm very intrigued to see what others think. |
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Joe Thanks

Joined: 01 Oct 2003 Location: Dudleyville
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Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2003 7:41 pm Post subject: |
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Another Korean film with a brief hagwon bit is HAPPY END.
Cheers,
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posco's trumpet
Joined: 20 Apr 2003 Location: Beneath the Underdog
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Gord

Joined: 25 Feb 2003
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Posted: Wed Oct 29, 2003 3:13 am Post subject: |
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| Just one question about the plot. WHY is the Australian girl in love with a pizza delivery guy? I'm not being classist, it's just that whenever I talk to a pizza delivery guy, the conversation obviously isn't much. Does the Australian teacher know much Korean? |
As a former pizza delivery guy, I can vouch that they get a lot of attention. They face dangerous traffic and keep their promise to arrive, they bring a gift, and then they depart with a promise to return again when called.
Same with carpet cleaners. All the women.
I wish I could say I was kidding. |
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Mashimaro

Joined: 31 Jan 2003 Location: location, location
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Posted: Wed Oct 29, 2003 3:19 am Post subject: |
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Same with carpet cleaners. All the women.
I wish I could say I was kidding. |
Don't forget the pool cleaners.. or is that just in porn  |
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Ryst Helmut

Joined: 26 Apr 2003 Location: In search of the elusive signature...
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Posted: Wed Oct 29, 2003 7:16 am Post subject: |
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TAKE THAT! Cathy heads off with a Chooncheong dialect boy! That's me, BOO--Ya!
Ok, other than that, I am sure to stage protests in front of this female cracker's house for everything she did/did not do in the film.
Then slit the directors gonads....no way in hakwon could they come close.
Shoosh,
ryst |
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Chonbuk

Joined: 28 Jan 2003 Location: Vancouver
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Posted: Wed Oct 29, 2003 4:55 pm Post subject: |
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Two questions for the women who read this board:
--do you usually go to work with 'peeping cleavage'?
--do you ever consider if your "honeyed words and tanned *beep* are conspiring to create the ultimate ethno-linguistic-sexual fantasy" in your male students?
Hi-
I never never go to school with cleavage showing. I'm in a college, and it wouldn't be acceptable. The boys- young men- are the least of my worries actually, it is the ladies, who notice every stitch of clothing that I wear and that are my harshest critics.
My male students are smartasses, they think that by writing a lousy report and than by adding the sentence- Teacher you are pretty will get them an A. I had to laugh at that.
Actually the problem is more with Korean older men, especially colleagues, and supervisors they stare embarassingly so. Cleavage isn't needed- they always stare.
That movie looks funny. I can't wait to see it.
wonder what the other ladies have experienced.
cheers.
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