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[thorin]

Anyone else find themselves watching the news just to hear her say "Seo-ul"? There's something so nice about that accent coming out of a Korean face after a long day of Konglish.

[just because]

She doesn't do much for me.

Actually the whole of Arirang news does little for. There could be North Korea invading and the lead story would be that the economy grew by 1.176% in the last 13 months or something to that effect.

Sometimes there is a little bit of useful info on there but I just watch KBS News, a hell of a lot better, even if I don't understand not quite all of it.

BTW...the weather girl is a wacky one, who is doing her wardrobe????

[hogwonguy1979]

[Mashimaro]

Does it bother anyone else when you here koreans who speak near perfect english constantly pronouncing Seoul as Seo-ool i.e. the correct korean pronunciation. If I have to call Sydney Shi-du-ni then isn't it fair enough that koreans pronounce korean cities in the english manner.
nah, probably doesn't bother anyone else. It just really stands out amongst the admittedly very good english of many korean presenters.

[Sleepy in Seoul]

But this is Korea - why should Koreans pronounce it differently? Should she pronounce Kyobo as Ki-owe-bow so that the G.I.s can understand? I am in favour of using the correct pronunciation for every foreign word or place-name - ie Melbourne is NOT pronounced mell-borrrn (for the North Americans out there), and Brisbane is NOT briz-bayne... If I am going to speak words from a foreign language, then I am going to try to pronounce them properly - to do otherwise is insulting IMHO.

[noelinkorea]

WAIT! What about the other woman who is a reporter on Arirang news. I forget her name, but her accent is TERRIBLE. I don't just mean that it's non-standard in any way - but that she mixes pronunciation from all over the world. Occasionally she'll roll an /r/, then she'll spit out a new variant of a vowel...just annoying to hear. Anyone know who I'm talking about? He voice is high pitched and devastatingly yuck.

[just because]

I know who you are talking about. She is on at mdday. Annoys the crap out of me as well.

[Wisco Kid]

[just because]

[Shoon]

Thank you, but not all North Americans pronounce Melbourne and Brisbane in the hickish manner of which you described.

Has no one learned that over-generalizing is wrong?

[Yaya]

Ahn Chak-hee grew up in Vietnam and went to British schools there. She then moved to Korea and got a master's in English from Yonsei Univ. Soon after, YTN hired her for its English-language program that the network later scrapped.

I met her a few times and she seemed ok as a person, though a bit snobby like other YTN people. She's also married to a Korean prosecution official.

[uberscheisse]

i find that watching arirang is intolerable, not for the vacuous and annoying hosts, but for the fact that it's lit like a korean vanity photograph.

you know, the soft, superwhite lighting that makes everyone look like a caucasian or a vampire?

seriously, how do the arirang hosts tolerate it? the heat in those studios must be insane.

[thorin]

[thorin]

I mean when in Krungthepmahanakornamornratanakosinmahintarayutthayamahadilokphopnopparatrajathaniburiromudomrajaniwesmahasatharn
amornphimarnavatarnsathitsakkattiyavisanukamprasit...

[weatherman]

I have noticed that body wise she has a beautiful profile.