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Troll_Bait
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 Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2008 6:27 pm Post subject: Beware of Netizens (SeoulSearcher blog entry) |
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http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-rVlK2bQyc6lF6h2M2.4-?cq=1&p=69
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The following episode took place in South Korea several years ago.
Thousands of Internet surfers, known in Korea as netizens, have launched a nationwide campaign to �save the life� of a popular actress from imminent death. The actress was so famous even I could recognize her name.
It turned out, however, it was not the actress in person but the heroine she was portraying in a television drama that was suffering an incurable disease. In other words, the netizens could not bear the thought of the heroin in the world of make-believe dying and were trying to whip up public opinion to pressure the scriptwriter to change her drama as it reached its climax.
Luckily, the candle light demonstration was not in vogue then as it is now. If it was, I have no doubt tens of thousands of netizens would have hit Seoul streets at night with lighted candles in hand, demanding their wish be accepted by the drama�s producer and the television station.
Joking aside, the title of that drama can be translated as: �Complete Love;� its theme, I understand, could be summed up as, �true love defies even death.� So, what the netizens wanted was to see the heroin live even if it meant that a change in the story would render the drama pointless.
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In a related development, a survey of university students around the country revealed that eight out of ten students do not read newspapers; what little they know about current affairs on both domestic and international fronts, they get them from television.
It is already a well-known fact that today�s young people who have grown up hearing sound bites and one liners on radio and television, do not like to read books and newspapers.
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Stormy
Joined: 10 Jan 2008
Location: Here & there
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| Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2008 6:37 pm Post subject: Re: Beware of Netizens (SeoulSearcher blog entry) |
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| Troll_Bait wrote: |
http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-rVlK2bQyc6lF6h2M2.4-?cq=1&p=69
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The following episode took place in South Korea several years ago.
Thousands of Internet surfers, known in Korea as netizens, have launched a nationwide campaign to �save the life� of a popular actress from imminent death. The actress was so famous even I could recognize her name.
It turned out, however, it was not the actress in person but the heroine she was portraying in a television drama that was suffering an incurable disease. In other words, the netizens could not bear the thought of the heroin in the world of make-believe dying and were trying to whip up public opinion to pressure the scriptwriter to change her drama as it reached its climax.
Luckily, the candle light demonstration was not in vogue then as it is now. If it was, I have no doubt tens of thousands of netizens would have hit Seoul streets at night with lighted candles in hand, demanding their wish be accepted by the drama�s producer and the television station.
Joking aside, the title of that drama can be translated as: �Complete Love;� its theme, I understand, could be summed up as, �true love defies even death.� So, what the netizens wanted was to see the heroin live even if it meant that a change in the story would render the drama pointless.
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In a related development, a survey of university students around the country revealed that eight out of ten students do not read newspapers; what little they know about current affairs on both domestic and international fronts, they get them from television.
It is already a well-known fact that today�s young people who have grown up hearing sound bites and one liners on radio and television, do not like to read books and newspapers.
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