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tatertot
Joined: 21 Oct 2008
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 Posted: Tue Jun 28, 2011 7:18 am Post subject: Korean TV shows - short skirts covered by blankets |
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I'm watching 강심장 right now (it's that stupid talk show hosted by Kang Ho-Dong and Lee Seung-Gi) and I've noticed something that I have to bring up. Most of the girls are sitting with these stupid yellow blankets covering their laps. I think that they are doing it because their skirts are too short, so the producers gave them the blankets.
But this is what confuses me:
1) The girls wear the short skirts because they think they look good.
2) Skirts are too short, so they have to cover up with ugly blankets.
3) Overall result is an outfit (including blanket) that doesn't look good.
So why can't these girls figure out that if their skirts are too short to sit in, they should be wearing longer skirts?
Don't get me wrong. I like short skirts. I like them because they look good. But they don't look good when they're covered by a yellow blanket with some sort of genie/machine/lamp thing all over it.
Does anybody else have any thoughts on this? |
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Sticks
Joined: 13 Mar 2011
Location: Seoul, Korea
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| Posted: Tue Jun 28, 2011 7:24 am Post subject: |
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Their minds don't function that way.  |
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liveinkorea316
Joined: 20 Aug 2010
Location: South Korea
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| Posted: Tue Jun 28, 2011 9:09 am Post subject: |
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I love it when I am on an elevator or stairs and the girl infront of me swings her hand around to put her handbag behind her so I or anyone else cannot see up her short dress.
Fact is, firstly even wuite short dresses cannot be looked up on stairs or escalators or there would have been serious social issues before now.
But if the dress was super short and it did require holding something behind, then I have the same thought as you - a woman would look better not having to constantly hold her handbag behind her.
Not to mention the fact that it feels like she is sending a message that the guy behind her is a pervert trying to look up her dress which he usually is not. |
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2i2dk1ny2i3
Joined: 26 Jun 2011
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| Posted: Tue Jun 28, 2011 2:58 pm Post subject: |
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your looking at it differently than i did
if you see the way Strong Heart is set up, the seating is different from most shows so that when they do a close up on someone let's say at the bottom, the person (girl with short skirt) in the next row, would pretty much be having a close up crotch shot next to someone's head
i think that would be very perverted and although Korea has become wayyy less conservative, i think its actually better to have those yellow blankets rather than when stars were bringing their own various colored blankets in the beginning |
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Kaypea
Joined: 09 Oct 2008
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| Posted: Tue Jun 28, 2011 8:04 pm Post subject: |
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| All this being said, it would make more sense if people just wore longer skirts, or pants. Sheesh. |
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eamo
Joined: 08 Mar 2003
Location: Shepherd's Bush, 1964.
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| Posted: Tue Jun 28, 2011 8:23 pm Post subject: |
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The overriding priority is that they look crazy-hot when they get up to do their sexy dance for 30 seconds......so they need the micro-skirt for that. The skirt is obviously way too short for then sitting like a lady, hence the blankets.
But I agree it's stupid. A bit of adjusting the seating arrangements could solve the problem.......but the current trend for celebrity shows is to have lots and lots of them stacked up in rows... |
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ThingsComeAround
Joined: 07 Nov 2008
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| Posted: Tue Jun 28, 2011 9:40 pm Post subject: |
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How about they take that Gangwondo desk money and build partitions for the legs on the show?
Then again that idea is soooo goood it won't be done.  |
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crosbystillsstash
Joined: 12 Oct 2008
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| Posted: Wed Jun 29, 2011 2:30 am Post subject: |
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| i don't know why anyone would watch that show anyway |
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DorkothyParker
Joined: 11 Apr 2009
Location: Jeju
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| Posted: Wed Jun 29, 2011 4:13 am Post subject: |
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As a related, but different comment: my husband is always commenting on girls in their shorty shorts. He is like "hey, where are your pants?"
But I think it's just an excuse for him to look.
*shrug* |
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maladict23
Joined: 17 May 2011
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| Posted: Wed Jun 29, 2011 4:21 am Post subject: |
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| liveinkorea316 wrote: |
Not to mention the fact that it feels like she is sending a message that the guy behind her is a pervert trying to look up her dress which he usually is not. |
PMSL |
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Koreadays
Joined: 20 May 2008
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| Posted: Wed Jun 29, 2011 3:55 pm Post subject: |
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Koreans are not show casing talent.. they are selling sex..
the comedians are their for the laughter aspect, all the other girls, the pretty ones are there for the husbands to look at while the wives laugh their asses off to the comedians.
sex sells in this country.. why you think all the girl band singers are dresses up like hookers and paraded around the stage? not for their music put it that way.... |
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2i2dk1ny2i3
Joined: 26 Jun 2011
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| Posted: Wed Jun 29, 2011 6:57 pm Post subject: |
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| Koreadays wrote: |
sex sells in this country.. why you think all the girl band singers are dresses up like hookers and paraded around the stage? not for their music put it that way.... |
i wouldn't go so far as calling them dressed up like "hookers"
in a lot ways, Korea is still very conservative country
with Capitalism, Korea has seen rapid economic success and westernized itself which is a good thing...imo
if you think about some of the Music Videos that Lady Gaga has made, compare it to Korean MV's and you'll see the difference |
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eamo
Joined: 08 Mar 2003
Location: Shepherd's Bush, 1964.
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| Posted: Wed Jun 29, 2011 7:40 pm Post subject: |
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| 2i2dk1ny2i3 wrote: |
in a lot ways, Korea is still very conservative country
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A common misperception.........Koreans put a sheen of conservatism on their society, and they'll tell you they're a conservative nation, but I'd say there's a lot more of what a christian would call immorality going on in Korea than a lot of so-called liberal western countries.
For example, the sex industry here is way bigger than a casual observer would notice. A lot of it is hidden behind barbershop poles, coffee shops, norae bangs, various kinds of bars, and other 'fronts'......and, unbelievable stat here, but it's from the Korean government itself. It's estimated that 16% of Korean women at some stage in their life have worked in the sex industry. That's a huge number.
I wouldn't say Korea is a conservative country at all. I'd say it's a country that likes to think of itself as conservative. |
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2i2dk1ny2i3
Joined: 26 Jun 2011
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| Posted: Wed Jun 29, 2011 9:13 pm Post subject: |
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i would agree with you that Conservatism isn't like certain Islamic countries but it is present
between all the vices, if i had to choose, i would choose Sex vs.
1. Drugs (hardcore drugs like cocaine, heroin, ecstasy, etc)
2. Age of consensual Sex is lot lower in other countries and girls as young as 12 years old are allowed to have sex in certain countries
3. Mass genocide, famine, gov. corruption, etc.
every country has its problems and i think for its population size, there is a dark under belly as in any other country but some of the other worser things, puts it into better perspective |
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