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Summer Wine · Joined: 20 Mar 2005 Location: Next to a River

I was watching a korean drama, admittedly I don't have much idea what was being said, but the actions and body language was very graphic and intense. I was curious whether Drama's here represent the life that goes on or directs it. I mean, do people here watch them and then copy the actions or do people here act and then drama plays it out in its most extreme form?

I guess I am curious how true to life the dramas here represent korean way of thinking, manerisms, etc.

mercury · Joined: 05 Dec 2004 Location: Pusan

I think you are on to something............you said " I mean, do people here watch them and then copy the actions or do people here act and then drama plays it out in its most extreme form? "

Maybe we have all been "brain washed" by sit coms! I mean.....everything from the Andy Griffith show and The Brady Bunch to.........Whats Happening.....could have been a Top Secret government project to make people act in a certain way! Even Happy Days gave us lessons on how to be "cool", and good citizens. Leave it to Beaver............why when I used to watch that.....I wanted to be a good kid!

In Korea, maybe the government is trying to get people to clean up their houses, to not use toilet paper on the tables, to always dress nice, and for guys to cry like women. It could also be a chance to let Korean azumas see what their "potential" could be. Telling them to give up the flowered pants, the strange visors and freaky afros! And to act civilized! Just like the old ladies in the sitcoms! Laughing

billybrobby · Joined: 09 Dec 2004

"Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life"

Summer Wine · Joined: 20 Mar 2005 Location: Next to a River

Sooke · Joined: 12 Jan 2004 Location: korea

I firmly believe that Koreans mimic behaviour from the TV they watch and play it out in everyday situations. I used to teach university students, and in class, there is the one rngleader who is constantly acting like he/she (usually he) is in a sit-com or (god forbid, cuz these are the worst) a drama. They always act like they're being watched, they don't act naturaly IMHO.

I was in a bar a few years back, and this korean girl came in. She was mad at one of the guys at my table, so she threw her drink into his face. He was a little pissed off, but he took it like a man. Then, about 10 minutes later, she did it again. This time, she got others at the table wet. Then she filled up to do it again, and my other buddy was like "Hey princess, this ain't a TV show!".

I have seen this behaviour time and time again. And they do it to each other. Half of the conflict in a Korean's life is based upon someone watching TV and trying to emulate the drama so their lives have more meaning.

If you haven't seen it, you haven't dated or been intimate with a Korean. Drama for drama's sake. Meh.

little mixed girl · Joined: 11 Jun 2003 Location: shin hyesung's bed~

is "friends" an imitation of real american life?
what about "dallas"?

a drama is just that...drama!

while there are probably situations in all dramas (US and foreign) that ppl of those respective groups can relate to, they in no way reflect the average population.

Leslie Cheswyck · Joined: 31 May 2003 Location: University of Western Chile

We're talking about people imitating what they see on TV. Not whether TV reflects reality.

I hate it when folks start mimicking what they see on the tube. Worse, yet, the big screen. "Show me the money!" And that god-awful street-lingo. "Aiiiiiight!" Suburban teenagers grabbing their crotch. Yeah, that's so their world.