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[thursdays child]

Hi,

I'm planning a lesson about kinds of TV shows.

But not being a big TV watcher (let alone Korean) I'm a bit stumped!!

I need names of a bunch of TV shows and their genre.

OK for Dramas thanks!

THANK YOU so much for any help - you're stars!

[Hater Depot]

������ and GAG Concert -- comedy sketch shows with a live audience.

PD��ø (sp?) -- investigative journalism. Usually known in English as PD Notebook it was the show that really went after Hwang Woo-suk.

XMen -- kind of like a funny gameshow played in teams, but nobody wins anything. Not as far as I can tell anyway.

Heart to Heart -- interview show on Arirang. Language used depends on who's being interviewed.

The videogame show that pits two 10-year olds against two hot chicks in games of Kart Rider or Crazy Arcade. Dunno the name of this one but the kids always win.

[Yu_Bum_suk]

Guys and Girls - a group of male and a group of female friends go after each other producing nothing but homoerotic overtones.

Francesca Anyong (Hello Francesca) - the misadventures of a group of Vampireesses.

Pride, UFC, and K1 - oh yeah, that's right, you also work at a girls school.

Superkids - a new trivia show in which an annoying tit asks irrelevant questions to twelve-year-olds more intelligent than he is.

CSI is also very popular here.

[sid]

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Celebrities have to try and recognise which of the thirty or so people sitting around the studio are their old classmates.

Brain Survivor

A bunch of celebrities sit in rows at small desks, they have to watch clips and answer questions. Each desk has got a mini-camera attached, so you get this distinctive shot where you see a grid of their faces and x or o depending on whether they got the question right.

[thursdays child]

Thanks for the suggestions

[Hater Depot]

School Attack -- on Korean MTV. Basically they picky a school to have a concert only the kids don't know it. So they go up to the auditorium for a boring something or other and BAM! With the rush of kids to the front it's incredible nobody gets trampled to death.

[Yu_Bum_suk]

[Hotpants]

My fave shows:

Dan Dae Han Do Jun - a game show in which the 'Old Boy' and the 'Young Boy' teams have to battle it out in silly sports rounds in a TV studio. They've had lots of sports celebrities on their shows showing how it 'should be done.' Very funny regardless of whether you understand any Korean or not.

I love all the animal shows: Dong-Mul Jun Ha, Dong-Mul Nong Jang, and Joo-Joo Club. The shows camera crews present a short about some special pet who has unusual idiosyncracies. Very funny.

Do the shows say something about my mentality? Perhaps...

[cwemory]

�� might be the most popular drama now. It concerns the exploits of the prince and and his commoner girlfriend in present day Korea. Its a fusion of a Joseon-era court drama and a high school love story.