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Newbie
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 Posted: Wed Jul 02, 2008 11:36 pm Post subject: Tasteless TV Drama (and the beef protests) |
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So my wife, god love her, loves to watch terrible Korean dramas. These days it's a "historical drama" starring that fairy pomegranate juice guy turned all tough and bad ass. Anyway, she's watching it last night (no matter how bad all these programmes are I just can't avert my eyes) and the writers decide to put in a big protest/"police" brutality bit. On the episode last night some villagers were protesting cuz some rich dude ran over a little girl with his horse. The genius writers on this show had the protestors be all peaceful and quiet like, and the security guards/police being the troublemaking instigators. They were giving the beat downs to the villagers without provocation. What are they trying to tell us about the current situation? What kind of sick message are they sending the people of Korea?? That these "beef" rioters are also peaceful and innocent victims of police violence? What a joke.
The news stations here are bad enough with their anti-police, pro-protestors stance, and now the craptastic dramas are getting in on it too. |
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Oreovictim
Joined: 23 Aug 2006
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| Posted: Wed Jul 02, 2008 11:41 pm Post subject: |
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| I wonder if the rich dude who ran over the girl represents the U.S. military. Either that or the TV writers are borrowing from Charles Dickens. |
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spliff
Joined: 19 Jan 2004
Location: Khon Kaen, Thailand
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| Posted: Thu Jul 03, 2008 2:26 am Post subject: |
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| Was probably filmed months ago. |
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Captain Corea
Joined: 28 Feb 2005
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Thu Jul 03, 2008 2:47 am Post subject: |
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| spliff wrote: |
| Was probably filmed months ago. |
Doubt it. |
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Newbie
Joined: 07 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Thu Jul 03, 2008 3:02 am Post subject: |
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| Captain Corea wrote: |
| spliff wrote: |
| Was probably filmed months ago. |
Doubt it. |
As do I. Over the years I've noticed a lot of small details in TV shows that suggest they're taped about a week or so before they're aired. |
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pkang0202
Joined: 09 Mar 2007
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| Posted: Thu Jul 03, 2008 3:38 am Post subject: |
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| I guess you missed the drama where a family is sitting around a dinner table and all of a sudden they talk about how Korean beef is the best. |
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Newbie
Joined: 07 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Thu Jul 03, 2008 4:32 am Post subject: |
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| pkang0202 wrote: |
| I guess you missed the drama where a family is sitting around a dinner table and all of a sudden they talk about how Korean beef is the best. |
Awesome |
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Whistleblower
Joined: 03 Feb 2007
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| Posted: Thu Jul 03, 2008 5:19 am Post subject: |
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| pkang0202 wrote: |
| I guess you missed the drama where a family is sitting around a dinner table and all of a sudden they talk about how Korean beef is the best. |
Probably the best Mad Cow advertising in the world. Probably the most illogical country in the world. |
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Scotticus
Joined: 18 Mar 2007
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| Posted: Thu Jul 03, 2008 7:36 am Post subject: |
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| Captain Corea wrote: |
| spliff wrote: |
| Was probably filmed months ago. |
Doubt it. |
Same. I remember reading an article about how Korean actors in dramas are often getting the script the day of shooting because they churn them out so quickly that they're practically shooting the scenes as they write them. |
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OnTheOtherSide
Joined: 29 Feb 2008
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| Posted: Thu Jul 03, 2008 7:41 am Post subject: |
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Dude, we are all living in Korea....
Let's just put on our pink polo shirts, hold our princess girlfriends purses, check ourselves out in the mirror everywhere we go, become racists, and let our coolness slip away quietly and without a whimper.
Quit trying to resist. |
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PeteJB
Joined: 06 Jul 2007
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| Posted: Thu Jul 03, 2008 1:08 pm Post subject: |
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| pkang0202 wrote: |
| I guess you missed the drama where a family is sitting around a dinner table and all of a sudden they talk about how Korean beef is the best. |
That's a re-occurring theme in dramas that everything 'Korean' is the best, nothing to do with the recent protests. It's acceptable to gloat on your own TV shows though, the UK does it too.  |
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mishlert
Joined: 13 Mar 2003
Location: On the 3rd rock from the sun
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| Posted: Thu Jul 03, 2008 3:20 pm Post subject: |
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| That's a re-occurring theme in dramas that everything 'Korean' is the best . . . |
Yet the characters will talk over coffee at Coffee Bean or Starbucks and then get in their foreign made, luxury (by K. standards) cars. |
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Grab the Chickens Levi
Joined: 29 Apr 2008
Location: Ilsan
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| Posted: Thu Jul 03, 2008 3:54 pm Post subject: |
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| PeteJB wrote: |
| pkang0202 wrote: |
| I guess you missed the drama where a family is sitting around a dinner table and all of a sudden they talk about how Korean beef is the best. |
That's a re-occurring theme in dramas that everything 'Korean' is the best, nothing to do with the recent protests. It's acceptable to gloat on your own TV shows though, the UK does it too. |
Examples please.
I usually watch peep show, the office, stuff like that and I'm not seeing it...
Certainly Brookie, Eastenders, Corrie etc don;t have that vein running through them either...
Examples....? |
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DRAMA OVERKILL
Joined: 12 Apr 2005
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| Posted: Thu Jul 03, 2008 4:00 pm Post subject: |
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Korean dramas  I based my name here on my opinion of Korean dramas. Horrible. Painful. Way too much "I'm the victim here" crap. |
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genezorm
Joined: 01 Jul 2007
Location: Mokpo
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| Posted: Thu Jul 03, 2008 4:08 pm Post subject: Re: Tasteless TV Drama (and the beef protests) |
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| Newbie wrote: |
| So my wife, god love her, loves to watch terrible Korean dramas. These days it's a "historical drama" starring that fairy pomegranate juice guy turned all tough and bad ass. |
you better watch your mouth son |
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