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JongnoGuru
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 Posted: Mon Jan 30, 2006 9:53 pm Post subject: "X-rated Movie Plan" |
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First, the subject line of this thread could well have been "Look at this Wildly Misleading Headline in the JoongAng". Take a glance at the lead editorial (below) from this morning's JoongAng Daily, which prompted me to create this poll. If you can't be bothered, just know that the editorial yaps on about some proposed scheme to support the local movie industry once the screen quota is reduced, yet doesn't even mention X-rated films in Korea.  Really, just skim through it, as it's not even relevant.
http://joongangdaily.joins.com/200601/30/200601302111411309900090109011.html
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[EDITORIALS]
X-rated movie plan
It is fitting that the government has decided to support the local film industry in order to relieve the aftereffects of the reduced screen quota. Regardless of the 50 percent market share that Korean films enjoy in the domestic market, they are expected to be somewhat affected as a result of the quota cut.
But the problem lies in the government's plans on how to provide support. It announced that it would raise 400 billion won ($400 million) over the next five years. The government would provide half that amount with tax money and the remainder would be raised by a 5-percent levy on ticket sales. The government's plan to use public funds to support its idea is an acceptable one. Whether it diverts funds from other budget categories or increases the budget with the consent of the National Assembly is something for the administration to decide on.
The idea of allotting 5 percent of ticket sales for the fund, however, is irresponsible and seems to have been decided on only because it is convenient.
If the new plans lead to increases in ticket prices, the Korean people will be forced to pay another quasi-tax. Is there a justification for the people to be paying more taxes to go to the movies? The administration should have considered why the Korea Culture and Arts Promotion Fund, which was operated in a similar fashion, was ruled unconstitutional.
Even if the new policy doesn't lead to higher ticket prices, as the government assures us, many questions still remain. It would require theaters to pay the five percent, clearly an increase in taxes, or bring on double taxation. The government's logic that a lower screen quota favors theaters is even more groundless. It would be like arguing that the current success of the Korean movie "The King and the Clown" is because of the screen quota system.
Just as we acknowledge the inevitability of reducing the screen quota, we also recognize the need for plans to support the domestic film industry. The plans, however, must be those that can be accepted by not only the film industry but also the Korean people in general.
The current administration must return to the drawing board and come up with fundamental and long-term plans to prop up the movie industry. |
It's like they chickened out, isn't it? "Oh boy! The X-rated movie plan!  Um... no, we better focus on this 5% levy on ticket sales instead.  "
Well, if the JoongAng Daily isn't prepared to discuss the topic of legalising X-rated films in Korea, perhaps some of you are. Hence, my question. Is Korea ready? I used to ask Koreans this long, long, long before the Internet Age and online porn, and I got fairly consistent responses to the negative. It's okay for the West, they'd say, but our culture isn't ready or doesn't want to legalise pornography. (Mind you, many Koreans then didn't think they weren't ready for divorce, women drivers, or seat-belt laws either.)
Many posters will insist that it doesn't really matter anymore, given the easy accessibility Koreans already have to porn on the Internet, at the DVD bahng, through under-the-counter video rentals, etc. But I think the impact -- social, cultural and financial -- of legalising pornography here would be enormous and far-reaching. We're not talking simply of adult theatres showing foreign-made X-rated films, but allowing Koreans to get in on the action. Literally.
'Here's my daughter/sister, the porn starlet'.
'Let me introduce you to my mother. You may have seen her years ago in "Eun-joo Does Pohang"'.
While it's obviously not up to me, I personally wouldn't very much like to see it happen. I'm no crusader against pornography, but I think I prefer things as they are. It's illegal but still available for anyone who wants it. And if there are Korean girls dead set on being porn stars, they can hop a flight to Tokyo or Vancouver.
So, what do you think?
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RACETRAITOR
Joined: 24 Oct 2005
Location: Seoul, South Korea
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| Posted: Mon Jan 30, 2006 10:09 pm Post subject: |
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Porn is very rarely produced for a domestic market. I had a friend back in Edmonton who got paid very well to set up firewalls so that only people in other countries could view locally produced porn.
And no, I don't think Korea's ready. |
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dogbert
Joined: 29 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Mon Jan 30, 2006 11:05 pm Post subject: |
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| Where on earth do you get the notion that pornography in Korea is illegal? |
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Satori
Joined: 09 Dec 2005
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| Posted: Mon Jan 30, 2006 11:07 pm Post subject: |
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| Well they already make it, and it's the worst porn you've ever seen, a total turn off. |
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JongnoGuru
Joined: 25 May 2004
Location: peeing on your doorstep
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| Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2006 12:27 am Post subject: |
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| dogbert wrote: |
| Where on earth do you get the notion that pornography in Korea is illegal? |
The local production and distribution thereof? Or, are you making no distinction between the soft-core "ero" flicks as seen (and widely panned) on local cable TV on the one hand, and straight-up hard-core porn on the other? Seems to me that in the great global porn trade, the exchange between Korea and the rest of the world is pretty much a one-way street still. The reason for that is as much legal as it is cultural, isn't it? |
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indiercj
Joined: 30 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2006 12:41 am Post subject: |
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| Why wanting so bad to drag others into your sh*t? |
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AbbeFaria
Joined: 17 May 2005
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| Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2006 12:44 am Post subject: |
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Bring on the porn, but only if it's actually porn and not the stuff that could pass for kleenex commericials in Europe. Personally I think the reasons asians have such weird porn ideas is because the men have little willy's. The Japanese fuzz it out and the Koreans don't even show it.
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Faron
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| Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2006 12:45 am Post subject: |
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| Well they already make it, and it's the worst porn you've ever seen, a total turn off. |
? Des Korean porn have ugly chicks or something? |
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JongnoGuru
Joined: 25 May 2004
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| Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2006 12:48 am Post subject: |
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| indiercj wrote: |
| Why wanting so bad to drag others into your sh*t? |
I beg your pardon?  |
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Satori
Joined: 09 Dec 2005
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| Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2006 1:51 am Post subject: |
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| Well they already make it, and it's the worst porn you've ever seen, a total turn off. |
? Des Korean porn have ugly chicks or something? |
No. It`s just bizzarely unsexual... |
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RACETRAITOR
Joined: 24 Oct 2005
Location: Seoul, South Korea
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| Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2006 1:53 am Post subject: |
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| Lots of rape-fantasy movies though. I saw a crazy one where a woman would get raped by a guy in a traditional mask while her husband was at work. At the end of the movie she fell in love with the rapist, and as luck would have it, it turned out to be her husband. There's three movies like this on every night. |
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eamo
Joined: 08 Mar 2003
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| Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2006 2:09 am Post subject: |
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There's plenty of Korean hard-core online of course. Lot's of Koreans I know download it without a qualm. One Korean guy I knew said Japanese hard-core was more popular in Korea than the home-produced stuff.
You could play the amateur psychologist all day as to why a country with such a large sex industry decides to only allow the softest of porn to be shown in theaters and on TV.
Are they ashamed of something? |
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Son Deureo!
Joined: 30 Apr 2003
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| Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2006 3:02 am Post subject: |
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| Faron wrote: |
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| Well they already make it, and it's the worst porn you've ever seen, a total turn off. |
? Des Korean porn have ugly chicks or something? |
They cannot show genitalia or pubic hair at all, and the action is very obviously fake as a result of the contrived positions they get into in order to conceal their naughty bits.
My cable company used to show Erotic Island, but they have since replaced it with Catch On 2 (yet another movie channel). I don't think I have ever been happier about having porn taken away from me. |
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JeJuJitsu
Joined: 11 Sep 2005
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| Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2006 3:31 am Post subject: |
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| Son Deureo! wrote: |
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| Satori wrote: |
| Well they already make it, and it's the worst porn you've ever seen, a total turn off. |
? Des Korean porn have ugly chicks or something? |
They cannot show genitalia or pubic hair at all, and the action is very obviously fake as a result of the contrived positions they get into in order to conceal their naughty bits.
My cable company used to show Erotic Island, but they have since replaced it with Catch On 2 (yet another movie channel). I don't think I have ever been happier about having porn taken away from me. |
Am I moments away from cops at my door because I download porn torrents? THAT would be embarassing--being deported for watching pornos. |
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Satori
Joined: 09 Dec 2005
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| Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2006 3:55 am Post subject: |
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| Son Deureo! wrote: |
| Faron wrote: |
| Satori wrote: |
| Well they already make it, and it's the worst porn you've ever seen, a total turn off. |
? Des Korean porn have ugly chicks or something? |
They cannot show genitalia or pubic hair at all, and the action is very obviously fake as a result of the contrived positions they get into in order to conceal their naughty bits.
My cable company used to show Erotic Island, but they have since replaced it with Catch On 2 (yet another movie channel). I don't think I have ever been happier about having porn taken away from me. |
Actually no. Im talking about real live sex porno. There is plenty of Korean stuff on the net. No acting, and they show everything, it's just really really bad boring sex... |
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