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The evil penguin
Joined: 24 May 2003
Location: Doing something naughty near you.....
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 Posted: Mon Jun 13, 2005 5:38 pm Post subject: Waegooks on the TV |
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Just out of interest, what are the requirements a waegook needs to get on the telly as an "english presenter"??
Do they have to pass an irritating personality test? Makes me curious sometimes what kind of skewed perception Koreans have of people from other countries, and to what extent this perception is deliberately created by the producers of english telly programs.... |
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just because
Joined: 01 Aug 2003
Location: Changwon - 4964
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| Posted: Mon Jun 13, 2005 5:40 pm Post subject: |
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I think you have to come from the school of very bad acting....
Anyone ever see ���� Ȥ�� ���� (true or False) ???
The acting is so bad it is funny  |
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sparkx
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Mon Jun 13, 2005 5:44 pm Post subject: |
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| The producers cerimoniously lop off theirs balls with calbi scissors and remove the part of the brain responsible for "dignity." |
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The evil penguin
Joined: 24 May 2003
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| Posted: Mon Jun 13, 2005 6:04 pm Post subject: |
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| sparkx wrote: |
| The producers cerimoniously lop off theirs balls with calbi scissors and remove the part of the brain responsible for "dignity." |
hmmmmm I suspected as much...
But where do these tv waegooks actually come from? Are they the result of some weird breeding program or genetic experiment involving "missing" foreign korean war soldiers?
Or were they press-ganged after found laying drunk in an Itaewon gutter? Surely they couldn't be just volunteers??? Money alone couldn't compensate for the shame....
And why the need for such idiocy on telly? Is it a ploy to make foreigners less intimidating?
Or is there something more sinister going on?? |
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JacktheCat
Joined: 08 May 2004
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| Posted: Mon Jun 13, 2005 6:08 pm Post subject: |
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| If Steve Revere is any guide, you need to be gayer than Richard Gere. |
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Swiss James
Joined: 26 Nov 2003
Location: Shanghai
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| Posted: Mon Jun 13, 2005 6:35 pm Post subject: |
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a remember a 'mate' of mine applying for a TV job, the requirements were that he could speak korean and english I seem to remember. Pay was decent, but not outstanding.
And err that's all I know |
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itaewonguy
Joined: 25 Mar 2003
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| Posted: Mon Jun 13, 2005 7:05 pm Post subject: |
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Ive appeared on tv many times in korea..
the pay sucks really.. I mean for tv work anyway.. but I didnt care in those days cause my job on arrirang was sweet got to travel for free al over korea then report about it for tv..
I have also auditioned for movies I was going to to be in the new movie thats coming out soon called WELCOME to DONGMUKGOL but my agent screwed me over by telling to audition for another movie with Chung dong gun so I ended up getting both movies, then I had to chose one and I chose the Dong Gun movie TYPHOON becuase its gonna be a huge film from the director of Friends,, CHINJU.. but becuase I took that film I lost my role from DONGMUKGOL.. and you know what happened?
yep my spot on TYPHOON got canceled and I lost out on both!!
so that sucked! |
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The evil penguin
Joined: 24 May 2003
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| Posted: Mon Jun 13, 2005 7:40 pm Post subject: |
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| JacktheCat wrote: |
| If Steve Revere is any guide, you need to be gayer than Richard Gere. |
I wondered if he was actually married or something to the chick he presents with.... but then i started thinking that with all the comestic surgery she's had (tell me those eyes are real) she couldn't be married to a mere telly presenter.....
Actually maybe you're right....
That... um... characteristic... does seem to be common on the english channels... |
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Swiss James
Joined: 26 Nov 2003
Location: Shanghai
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| Posted: Mon Jun 13, 2005 7:57 pm Post subject: |
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| itaewonguy wrote: |
Ive appeared on tv many times in korea..
the pay sucks really.. I mean for tv work anyway.. but I didnt care in those days cause my job on arrirang was sweet got to travel for free al over korea then report about it for tv..
I have also auditioned for movies I was going to to be in the new movie thats coming out soon called WELCOME to DONGMUKGOL but my agent screwed me over by telling to audition for another movie with Chung dong gun so I ended up getting both movies, then I had to chose one and I chose the Dong Gun movie TYPHOON becuase its gonna be a huge film from the director of Friends,, CHINJU.. but becuase I took that film I lost my role from DONGMUKGOL.. and you know what happened?
yep my spot on TYPHOON got canceled and I lost out on both!!
so that sucked! |
Piece of bad luck on that film, but few people would turn down something from the director of Chingu.
So what might we have seen you in? |
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komtengi
Joined: 30 Sep 2003
Location: Slummin it up in Haebangchon
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| Posted: Mon Jun 13, 2005 8:36 pm Post subject: |
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you need an e6 to begin with...
but then you get screwed over... crazy long days, crap pay and maybe the odd lass who recognises you and wants to have your kids |
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Teufelswacht
Joined: 06 Sep 2004
Location: Land Of The Not Quite Right
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| Posted: Mon Jun 13, 2005 9:49 pm Post subject: |
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| The evil penguin wrote: |
| JacktheCat wrote: |
| If Steve Revere is any guide, you need to be gayer than Richard Gere. |
I wondered if he was actually married or something to the chick he presents with.... but then i started thinking that with all the comestic surgery she's had (tell me those eyes are real) she couldn't be married to a mere telly presenter.....
Actually maybe you're right....
That... um... characteristic... does seem to be common on the english channels... |
I think, if we're talking about the same person, her name is Lisa Kelly. I think she is bi-racial. This may explain the eyes.
Revere has mentioned at some time in the past he was engaged to be married but it was called off when he refused to go back to the U.S. after they were married. He wanted to stay in Korea. I guess his girlfriends parents didn't like the idea of their daughter being married to a white devil AND living in Korea. But I could be wrong. It's just something I heard him say one time. |
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itaewonguy
Joined: 25 Mar 2003
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| Posted: Mon Jun 13, 2005 9:50 pm Post subject: |
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| Swiss James wrote: |
| itaewonguy wrote: |
Ive appeared on tv many times in korea..
the pay sucks really.. I mean for tv work anyway.. but I didnt care in those days cause my job on arrirang was sweet got to travel for free al over korea then report about it for tv..
I have also auditioned for movies I was going to to be in the new movie thats coming out soon called WELCOME to DONGMUKGOL but my agent screwed me over by telling to audition for another movie with Chung dong gun so I ended up getting both movies, then I had to chose one and I chose the Dong Gun movie TYPHOON becuase its gonna be a huge film from the director of Friends,, CHINJU.. but becuase I took that film I lost my role from DONGMUKGOL.. and you know what happened?
yep my spot on TYPHOON got canceled and I lost out on both!!
so that sucked! |
Piece of bad luck on that film, but few people would turn down something from the director of Chingu.
So what might we have seen you in? |
I was on TV back in 99 - 2001
so you probably would not have seen me..
on sbs with So Sae won |
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rapier
Joined: 16 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Mon Jun 13, 2005 9:51 pm Post subject: |
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Don't know about the movies, but the tv shows certainly seem to be a korean inspired plot to make foreigners look silly, stupid and unthreatening.
I thought the Hagwons had already cornered that market. |
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Hwajangsil Ajumma
Joined: 02 May 2005
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| Posted: Mon Jun 13, 2005 10:55 pm Post subject: |
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Lisa Kelley is HOT HOT HOT!
Many are the hours I spend beating myself sore to her on English Cafe.
Now if only Sparkx would lend me that damn ski-glove... |
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Mashimaro
Joined: 31 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Mon Jun 13, 2005 11:05 pm Post subject: |
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being annoying definitely seems a prereq.. being ugly seems to help..
I probably fill both those criteria and I speak some korean.. Maybe I should get an agent  |
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