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Troll_Bait
Joined: 04 Jan 2006
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 Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2009 7:16 pm Post subject: It's confirmed: Korean TV's stupid & becoming even worse |
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http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2009/02/117_38890.html
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Television has long been mocked as an ``idiot box'' in Korea. But Koreans spend an average of two hours and 43 minutes in front of the box a day, according to AGB Neilson Media research in 2006, indicating that TV's influence on people is getting stronger than ever.
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Celebrities' slips of the tongue, where hosts show their middle finger to each other using the ``F'' word, speaking ill of others and showing teeth to each other, has almost become a trend. In fact, ``Myeongrang Hero'' was found to have used offensive or inappropriate words 280 times in just two airings last October, according to the Korea Communications Commission.
TV broadcasters, who used to offer an official apology for inappropriate behavior and bleep out offensive words, are now rushing to make them an integral part of their programs.
They decorate such words with captions and computer graphics, inducing viewers to laugh and take them in a lighthearted manner rather than getting angry.
``I feel more than upset sometimes. Don't they at least have ethical guidelines for TV when children are watching? I don't want my children to giggle at other people being humiliated or being laughed at,'' angry viewer Im Jung-ok said.
Such actions have already been adopted into people's lives. A woman identified only as Bae, a fourth grade elementary school teacher, said she was surprised at her students using bad language without even realizing it. ``All those `F' words and other swear words come out of children's mouths without any sign of guilt. They sometimes proudly tell me that they have learnt it from TV,'' she said.
A producer told Donga Ilbo, a local newspaper, that talking badly, harsh and negative dialogue causes outrage and higher viewer ratings. ``That is something we cannot resist,'' he was quoted as saying. |
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Hater Depot
Joined: 29 Mar 2005
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| Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2009 7:49 pm Post subject: |
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| Yeah, right. Everything on the telly is such trash that I just can't stop watching it. |
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RACETRAITOR
Joined: 24 Oct 2005
Location: Seoul, South Korea
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| Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2009 7:51 pm Post subject: Re: It's confirmed: Korean TV's stupid & becoming even w |
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[size=12]Television has long been mocked as an ``idiot box'' in Korea.
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Good reporting, because nobody has ever thought that or invented a term to express that in other countries.
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Celebrities' slips of the tongue, where hosts show their middle finger to each other using the ``F'' word, speaking ill of others and showing teeth to each other, has almost become a trend. In fact, ``Myeongrang Hero'' was found to have used offensive or inappropriate words 280 times in just two airings last October, according to the Korea Communications Commission.
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Really? That's all they got? What about the spat of ridiculously stupid shows like X-Boyfriend where they try to reunite broken up couples, or the other one where a girlfriend sends an actress to try and entrap her boyfriend in a seduction in order to see how loyal he is, or Scandal which is basically a remake of the US' Cheaters, only with actors? That's certainly more harmful and trashy than a few gestures and words that are already very common in real life. |
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Temporary
Joined: 13 Jan 2008
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| Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2009 8:11 pm Post subject: |
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| I stoped watching TV 4 years ago. I just download shows that I enjoy. |
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crosbystillsstash
Joined: 12 Oct 2008
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| Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2009 8:56 pm Post subject: |
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| Jesus the new "Prettier Than Flowers" thing is so pathetic. The guy with the 70's woman's hair, all the beauitifull boys looking gay in their neck scalves and sports cars. |
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flakfizer
Joined: 12 Nov 2004
Location: scaling the Cliffs of Insanity with a frayed rope.
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| Posted: Wed Feb 04, 2009 2:13 am Post subject: |
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| Anyone else go to their in-laws' place each new year and chuseok and find that the TV is on non-stop? I was surprised the first time, now I expect it and always go out for a long walk with my son. Seeing people enjoy Korean TV is usually depressing to me. It is just so mind-numbingly bad. |
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caniff
Joined: 03 Feb 2004
Location: All over the map
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| Posted: Wed Feb 04, 2009 2:23 am Post subject: |
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| flakfizer wrote: |
| Anyone else go to their in-laws' place each new year and chuseok and find that the TV is on non-stop? |
No, but the young kids and teenagers will go into bedrooms and get on the computers after the bowing and the lunch. Just my Korean family's style.
Later when my wife and I have to do the obligatory handing out of the Sejongs (along with other adults), they suddenly reappear en masse. |
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Underwaterbob
Joined: 08 Jan 2005
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| Posted: Wed Feb 04, 2009 3:13 am Post subject: |
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| There are an abnormal number of public TVs in Korea. Restaurants, bus stations, hospitals, basically any office type-location. What turns me off the most is the constant shrieking and laughing on a large number of programs. Korean TV must be some of the loudest TV in the world. |
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Kimchieluver
Joined: 02 Mar 2005
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| Posted: Wed Feb 04, 2009 3:39 am Post subject: |
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| Underwaterbob wrote: |
| There are an abnormal number of public TVs in Korea. Restaurants, bus stations, hospitals, basically any office type-location. What turns me off the most is the constant shrieking and laughing on a large number of programs. Korean TV must be some of the loudest TV in the world. |
Those are just voices in your head. |
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PeteJB
Joined: 06 Jul 2007
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| Posted: Wed Feb 04, 2009 3:40 am Post subject: |
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| TV in the UK ain't much better. Just some good dramas now and then. |
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Chet Wautlands
Joined: 11 Oct 2008
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| Posted: Wed Feb 04, 2009 4:34 am Post subject: |
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| Kimchieluver wrote: |
Those are just voices in your head. |
I like this idea. |
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endo
Joined: 14 Mar 2004
Location: Seoul...my home
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| Posted: Wed Feb 04, 2009 4:36 am Post subject: |
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| PeteJB wrote: |
| TV in the UK ain't much better. Just some good dramas now and then. |
MI5 baby! One of the best shows on television! |
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Rusty Shackleford
Joined: 08 May 2008
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| I love how the same dozen or so people show up on every show. Korean TV and "celebrities" are even more inbred than back in NZ and Korea has 10 times the population. I guess it comes from being the only country that produces Korean television (obviously), and there ain't that big of a pool of talent to draw on. But honestly, some of the shows are just those same old guys sitting around eating or in a sauna or something. How is that entertaining? And from a country that makes some pretty fine movies. |
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Zulethe
Joined: 04 Jul 2008
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| Posted: Wed Feb 04, 2009 6:24 am Post subject: |
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| I DONT LIKE KOREAN TV |
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mack the knife
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Wed Feb 04, 2009 8:08 am Post subject: |
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| Seeing people enjoy Korean TV is usually depressing to me. It is just so mind-numbingly bad. |
So much truth in so few words. I can feel the pain this very moment. |
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