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[rutan668]

Korean bank add filming in New Zealand

Well, I�ve managed to work for Koreans while not in Korea - and for far less money than I would accept in Korea.

A Korean bank (I don�t know which one) was filming a TV add in Kingston near Queenstown where I live and I signed up to be an extra for $150 NZ dollars for the day. The day went for 12 hours.

We had to put on these coloured robes and run around a field. There were two �teams� The red team which I was in and which was the �heroes� and the blue team which weren�t.

Presumably the red team where supposed to represent Korea in some way, although we weren�t Korean.

We had to run towards each other aggressively and then later sort of became �friends� again.

The featured extra from the blue team was a black guy and from the red team a white woman, although the rest of the members of the teams were not divided racially.

At the end was a blue eyed red team child who gets beckoned to by the featured extra from the red team Amusingly the director tried to get her to beckon in the Korean style, i.e fingers pointing towards the ground. She found it difficult to do this in a �natural way� demanded by the director and it took many takes.

After the blue and red teams had to jump around in jubilation around the red team child.

My conclusion: Working for Koreans in New Zealand involves the same things as working for them in Korea but for much less money.

[xtchr]

You just described my school's sports day.


Was the Kingston Flyer chuffing on past in the background? (That didn't happen at school).

[Cheonmunka]

Funny isn't it. I got paid 450 dollars for half a day of that in Korea.
However, I wasn't an extra, but the star. (I was sooo hunover that morning.) Second, 'however,' luckily that was only screened to a million Daeguites.

You will, on the other hand, be screened to 45 million people. Har har. Maybe you'll be in close up, too. Double hardy har har.

Put it down to the cheapening of NZ. We are after all just a bunch of boongas.
Yet, your local govt. wants the Asian dosh more than anything - they can keep flying biz class to Sister city meetings and feel they are 'in-touch' with Asia. And, accept royalities in their name that it waz himself/herself that brought the World to the South.

[GoldMember]

Funny how when they need a nice backdrop or nice scenery for an ad, for products such as cars, phones etc invariably the location is outside of Korea.
Sydney seems to be popular.
Why don't they use Korean locations?
You'd think it would be a lot cheaper.

[blackjack]

[Col.Brandon]

Locations in Korea would be blanketed in smog most of the time. No horizons and no vistas.

[jetrash]

[Suwoner10]

Perhaps this was a public service ad on behalf of Korean banks reminding foreigners in KOrea that they are not allowed International ATM cards?