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mithridates · Posted: Mon Feb 23, 2004 5:10 am Post subject: Policeman

Last night we were filming something for SBS where I got to go around with policemen for a night until 3 am...a pity I've never gotten to do that with police in Canada or anywhere else so I can't compare the two but most of it seems to be there same thing. It was Sunday night so there was less than one might expect on a Saturday but there were a few interesting moments. There was a drunken girl passed out on the street, a man who was threatening the woman he lived with with a knife, a few people fighting in the park and so on. Apparently they get some twenty or thirty cases a night on a Saturday though.

I was a bit cautious about it at first because I had to put on a police uniform as well and I wasn't sure whether they would want me to do it in English or Korean, but it was all in Korean and I got to just follow them around and give my opinion on what was happening, and wasn't asked to do anything stupid. Police uniforms are really cold though, it was like wearing a sweater and nothing else.

Next Sunday when we film for the show with all the foreigners that speak Korean they're going to play the bit we filmed first as an intro to a discussion about Korean night-life and how they fight and do various things when they get drunk. I think it's pretty much the same as (most) other countries though; anybody can be prone to fight when they've had too much to drink.

just because · Joined: 01 Aug 2003 Location: Changwon - 4964

what show is this one???

mithridates · Posted: Mon Feb 23, 2004 5:35 am Post subject:

It's a copy of the one that was popular in Japan for a long time, koko ga hen da yo nihonjin, where foreigners that spoke fluent Japanese would go on to talk about living in Japan and what they like and don't like about it. Each week they would have a new topic, some more interesting than most.

This one is having the first showing on March 6 from 4:30 to 6pm, and if it's popular it'll go every week like the one in Japan before. The show they had in Japan was quite good; most people I knew really liked it and found it quite refreshing from most of the other tv they had there, and the foreigners they had on the show weren't just from one part of the world, they were from Bangladesh, Benin, Ghana, US, Canada, Russia, pretty much everywhere. Lots of Koreans and Chinese people especially as they spoke the best Japanese but I bet the competition to get on the show for them was the fiercest. Some of the European people on the show spoke some pretty wretched Japanese though...

itaewonguy · Joined: 25 Mar 2003

hope someone mentions the BS anti americanism, the hatered towards foeigners.. the racisim.. and the over charging of foreigners..
and all the rest of the crapola...
and the ungratefullness towards Americans.. for what they have done here for last 50years>> do koreans really think!! that they would have gone this far without America??????

mithridates · Posted: Mon Feb 23, 2004 6:17 am Post subject:

That's what the whole show's about, the opinions of foreigners that have lived here for a long time. That's why it was popular in Japan for so long.

HardyandTiny · Joined: 03 Jun 2003

will the program air every day or just once a week?

it sounds very good
congratulations.

Bulsajo · Joined: 16 Jan 2003

Yes, I'd definitely like to hear more about it- I don't imagine they'll be using the Japanese name, will they- what's the name of the show?

Juggertha · Joined: 27 May 2003 Location: Anyang, Korea

Mith! too cool man. I wish ya luck and look forward to watching it.

Tiberious aka Sparkles · Joined: 23 Jan 2003 Location: I'm one cool cat!

Good job, Mithridates! It seems that more and more posters on this board are becoming famous (at least a little).

Now I'm anticipating a 2004-2005 Gord calendar. That would be the move.

Sparkles*_*

Juggertha · Joined: 27 May 2003 Location: Anyang, Korea

mithridates · Posted: Tue Feb 24, 2004 6:16 am Post subject:

My sources tell me the name of the show will be:
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Which means - big foreigner debate - what's up with Koreans?

This has been a lot more fun than I had anticipated. I remember us standing in front of the house of the guy who was threatening his live-in ajumma with a knife. The cameraman and I were too shy to actually go right in and film the whole thing so we just kind of stood outside and watched. Makes me wonder how cameramen can just run up to a place that has been bombed or shot at to film everything; that's pretty gutsy.

kiwiboy_nz_99 · Joined: 05 Jul 2003 Location: ...Enlightenment...

Congratulations my friend, that is truly admirable. Good stuff. Im very interested to see it myself. I wonder if they try to keep it light and nice or if some of them let it all hang out and talk about some sensitive issues.

mithridates · Posted: Wed Feb 25, 2004 4:53 am Post subject:

In Japan it was pretty brutal sometimes...one they had a show about weird Japanese hobbies and one man there liked to put on old army uniforms. He came in dressed as a Nazi which got the guy from France really mad. Finally it looked like things were about to cool down and the weird hobby guys were taking their leave, when the army uniform guy gave the French guy a Heil Hitler salute....the guy went berserk and rushed forward to kick the guy's @ss but was barely restrained by some of his friends...
It wasn't usually like that but with all the different nationalities there invariably someone would have a different opinion from someone else.
Once a guy from Ghana claimed that there were no gay people in his country. He did so pretty much every time the topic came up so the show sent some people off overseas who found some gay people there and brought the footage back...^^
Pretty funny stuff.

waterbaby · Joined: 01 Feb 2003 Location: Baking Gord a Cheescake pie