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marktoronto · Joined: 02 Jun 2003 Location: Seoul

I will become famous by teaching the animals in the mountains to speak english . . . I'll probably make more progress with them than with my kids!

Circus Monkey · Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Location: In my coconut tree

mithridates · Posted: Fri Jan 02, 2004 6:12 am Post subject:

Let's resurrect this one. I was thinking about the definition of famous in Korea. There are 48 million people here, but since not even half of the population needs to know a person to be famous, it might even start as low as 500 000. But then again what is famous? I remember somebody ranting about famous people being no different from ordinary people, which is true. Still, I wonder what the definition of famous would be here.

Starperson · Joined: 23 Mar 2003

Who's that Aussie guy on the MBC Drama? He's actually pretty famous for a foreigner. I find him hilarious. All these Russians, Americans and Canadians and then he blurts out something with a totally Aussie accent, as if he's just come off the farm from shearing some sheep. Any way I saw him outside McDonald's once and I was pretty excited.

Anyway that's about as famous as you could get here...unless you become a pop star.

seoulmon · Joined: 13 Nov 2003 Location: Seoul

Perhaps you can blog a whole bunch!

bobbyhanlon · Joined: 09 Nov 2003 Location: 서울

i too want to be famous in korea. as a pop star! has anyone else tried this?

mithridates · Posted: Sat Jan 03, 2004 6:29 am Post subject:

The way I see it, there are a few ways to become famous in Korea, though a lot of them require a loss of dignity (though OTOH I remember cleaning up food scraps after the kindergarten class after lunch hour one day while Woosung kicked Myongju in the face and another kid dropped the entire contents of his plate on the floor. Where was the dignity in that? I quit a few months later).

1)Get on EBS or some other channel being an English instructor along with the Korean speaker that will explain the grammar. You'd be famous, but only as an English teacher and it might make things more annoying afterwards.
2)Find a good band to play with in Hongdae and get famous that way. The good side is that it feels more legit than simply being the white face on a tv show; the bad side is that it's the same as gettting famous by playing in a band in any other country, and therefore takes a lot of work. Your Korean would also have to be pretty good, or play with people who are living here for a great number of years.
3)Do something weird...
4)Get amazingly good at Korean, learn old Korean, learn five dialects, learn North Korean Korean, basically become the foreigner that knows more about Korean/Korea than a whole university of people here. The downside, of course, is that it takes time and effort.
5)Get a famous girlfriend/boyfriend. This requires charm.
Can't think of anything else right now...

Butterfly · Joined: 02 Mar 2003 Location: Kuwait

Whichever avenue you take, start by being really really good at what you do.

Tiberious aka Sparkles · Joined: 23 Jan 2003 Location: I'm one cool cat!

Hey! I'm famous!

Don't believe me? Check out this month's issue of Best Baby magazine.

They did a story on me, wifey and Rapzilla.

AND, they called wifey today to arrange more work for Rapzilla.

Rapzilla's famous, dude!

She's gonna give that Dianna hottie from "Animal Farm" some serious comp.

Be scared, Dianna. Be very, very scared.

Sparkles*_*