Korean Job Discussion Forums

[mal]

So whaddya think? Are they endowed with an appreciation of the funnier things in life?

Looking around I see a lot of fairly glum faces, with little or no laughter-wrinkles spreading out from around the eye-region.

Would Koreans laugh openly at the antics of John cleese hamming it up with "ze germans", or guffaw uncontrollably at the witty banter between the Two Ronnies?

have you witessed much of the "comedy" on korean TV? Is it funny?

Cheerz

[billybrobby]

if you *beep* them, do they not bleed?

[billybrobby]

woah. haha. that sounds dirty. i just said 'p rick.'

[PEIGUY]

they do laugh.. trip over a cable and fall into a table or something and they will laugh until their faces are blue.. just a different sense of humour that's all.

[kermo]

My elementary school kids think I'm pretty freakin' hilarious, so I give them all credit for having excellent taste.

[mal]

your av is pretty freak'n hilarious too!

[livinginkorea]

I tell them how crazy Japan is and they always laugh at that. Also if somebody says something not very funny we (the students and I) always make jokes at them saying "get out" or "what are you doing". There is never a dry eye in my class!!

I'm going to be teaching kids next in September so that will be completely different. Usually you have to make jokes like "teacher isn't a monkey - you are!!".

I think that you have to make the classes funny and enjoyable. You can't be too serious here or else you are considered boring!!

[kermo]

[buddy bradley]

Korean comdies are quite possibly the saddest thing I've ever had to watch on television here (actually wait - it's a toss-up between the comedies and Arirang Propaganda NAZI News).

[trigger123]

can you speak korean?

[inkoreaforgood]

Yeah, gotta say, Koreans find me freakin' hilarious. Although I'm still waiting for someone to spew some food out their nose over a joke I told.

They love sarcasm, btw.

[mal]

i'm not particularly funny, but i find that they do seem to enjoy it when u give things a ridiculous slant - overstatement, understatement and the like. Similarly, I found the Thais to have a pretty simple sense of humor (given the state of Thai comedy on TV plus from the insights of Thai - speaking foreigners).

Does anybody know of any stand-up korean comics, or decent comedy movies?

Cheerz

[funplanet]

They have a sense of humour but I find it to be slightly juvenile....now, some would call John Cleese or Monty Python juvenile but then they just don't get it....so, perhaps I just don't get much K-humour

[kermo]

[Neil]

Most Korean comedys are slapstick, they'd love Jim Carrey I reckon.

My Sassy Girl is probably the best Korean comedy I've seen.