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flakfizer
Joined: 12 Nov 2004
Location: scaling the Cliffs of Insanity with a frayed rope.
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SKY...It's different.
Cheju, the next island.
Dynamic Korea
Hi Seoul
A little off topic, but I couldn't believe it when I saw a commercial using Deep Purple's, "Highway Star" to plug a Kia. I mean, a Kia.  |
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Hater Depot
Joined: 29 Mar 2005
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Happy Suwon. Makes me wish there was a holiday named Suwon.
I'm also a big fan of "Oh! My God" fried chicken. |
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peppermint
Joined: 13 May 2003
Location: traversing the minefields of caddishness.
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I've seen a few ads in the subways saying "Welcome to Ecopolis" and it's an ad for Ulsan  |
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bobbyhanlon
Joined: 09 Nov 2003
Location: 서울
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there's also a chicken hof chain called 'born to be chicken'.
i saw a place in busan named, i think, *beep*... this was a soft furnishings shop, and underneath the *beep* sign was the slogan 'feeling mom's heart'. |
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The Bobster
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
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| Mr. Pizza's slogan "for a woman" always makes me laugh when I walk by or see a delivery driver on his scooter. |
That one's easy, once it's a explained to you. See, a guy brings a pizza home and he's happy because he's eating pizza. Or anything, really, we're easy to please, comes down to it.
A woman brings a pizza home, the guy is happy (he's eating pizza) and SHE is happy because she did't have to cook that night.
That's why it is "for a woman." (But it's also "for a man," because things that make women happy eventually trickle down to us. We hope. ) |
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Gopher
Joined: 04 Jun 2005
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tomato
Joined: 31 Jan 2003
Location: I get so little foreign language experience, I must be in Koreatown, Los Angeles.
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I took this picture in Cheongju.
Think you'd like to work there? |
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kermo
Joined: 01 Sep 2004
Location: Eating eggs, with a comb, out of a shoe.
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Amino up! Adja adja!
I don't know what "adja adja" means but it sure is catchy. |
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pegpig
Joined: 10 May 2005
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I took this picture in Cheongju.
Think you'd like to work there? |
Obviously, with a slogan like that it would depend on what the female staff was like. |
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anyway
Joined: 22 Oct 2005
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| I can't remember which company it is, but the slogan is "Korea for the world, the world for Korea". Yea, riiiight... |
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billybrobby
Joined: 09 Dec 2004
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| anyway wrote: |
| I can't remember which company it is, but the slogan is "Korea for the world, the world for Korea". Yea, riiiight... |
That's that nonstop block of quality programming we know as Arirang TV. that slogan has always rankled me. |
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JongnoGuru
Joined: 25 May 2004
Location: peeing on your doorstep
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| Posted: Sun Feb 05, 2006 11:43 pm Post subject: |
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| billybrobby wrote: |
| anyway wrote: |
| I can't remember which company it is, but the slogan is "Korea for the world, the world for Korea". Yea, riiiight... |
That's that nonstop block of quality programming we know as Arirang TV. that slogan has always rankled me. |
Oh, it rankles on several levels.
First, it's damned old. Whether it's good or bad (and make no mistake, it's quite bad), it's the most insipid, unoriginal bathwater going. FFS, the yawnworthy slogan of the '88 Olympic Games was "Seoul to the World, the World to Seoul". Here it is nearly 20 years later and nobody's been able to think outside that tired old box. Yes, I know this is a culture that pretends to value the new, the fresh, the wild, the creative, the revolutionary -- pretends to. What it really values is the status quo, immitation over innovation, familiar over strange and foreign. Or maybe I'm overthinking this, and really it's nothing more than the product of infernal laziness and a complete lack of creativity.
Second, it bespeaks NOT some radical desire for universal harmony and a final escape from millennia of hermitic navel-gazing, but RATHER a highly conservative distrust and distainful defiance that imagines itself to be the centre of the universe, the soul of sophistication.
None of this, however, is to suggest that I wish Arirang or these ridiculous slogans would disappear. Korea wouldn't be half as much fun without them. |
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scarneck
Joined: 18 Aug 2003
Location: Seoul
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| Gopher wrote: |
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| Poemer wrote: |
| Mr. Pizza's slogan "for a woman" always makes me laugh when I walk by or see a delivery driver on his scooter. |
That one's easy, once it's a explained to you. See, a guy brings a pizza home and he's happy because he's eating pizza. Or anything, really, we're easy to please, comes down to it.
A woman brings a pizza home, the guy is happy (he's eating pizza) and SHE is happy because she did't have to cook that night.
That's why it is "for a woman." (But it's also "for a man," because things that make women happy eventually trickle down to us. We hope. ) |
When I was living there, I asked a Korean friend about that, and he said that its slogan was "made for woman" because it was healthy and fat free, etc.
Seems ridiculous to exclude half the market in your advertising, but then again, there are many things Koreans do that I'll never understand. |
Okay, then who is the 'nude pizza' or 'shrimp nude pizza' for?
"Milkis" A new feeling of soda beverage. |
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The Bobster
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
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I saw a minivan a couple of weeks ago with a very distubing mispelling on the side of it, and no, I don't recall the name of the company, too busy looking closely to be sure it said what I thought it did :
DANGEROUS GOODS
COURIER AND FRIGHT
(Fright instead of freight, obviously ...) |
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Poor Lazarus
Joined: 31 Jan 2006
Location: Andong
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| Posted: Thu Mar 16, 2006 11:01 pm Post subject: Hub of Asia |
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| There is a full page ad in this week's "Economist" touting Jeju as the new "hub of Asia" and "city of the future". It even has the balls to say "Sorry Hongkong!" I'm sure Hong Kong is in tears, having lost its hub status to Jeju. |
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