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[JongnoGuru]

Like this.

I was at KFC a few mintues ago, because I've had all the Korean food I can handle the past few days, and because I have a stack of coupons I need to start using before they expire. I'm waiting for a cashier, standing around with families and packs of wild children who, I am guessing, have also had all the Korean food they can handle the past few days.

As I wait I watch their little video commercial on the screens facing the customer. This short clip takes place in front of a decidedly un-Korean-looking 2-story house in a decidedly un-Korean-looking suburb. SUV, big front garden, clean, leafy street, broad walkways, etc. (Is this commercial on TV too? I haven't seen it.)

The action:

A middle-aged Korean couple returns to their home. As they walk indoors we see a young lady (their daughter) helping her boyfriend escape via her 2nd-story bedroom. The boyfriend leaps to the driveway below. He's in his unbuttoned shirt, underpants, and carrying his trousers. (Or does she throw them down to him after he jumps out?) Anyway, we're to understand that he's just been banging the daughter of the couple in their home while they were out.

Before he can make a run for it, the family dog races out and bites the guy's pants, a tug-of-war ensues, the father comes barging out and chases the boyfriend down the street. It ends with a superimposed ad for interpark.com, one of the online malls. It was overpixilated, so I couldn't make out what it said. Not important.

Now I'll confess, this is hardly earth-shaking. It's quintessential Hollywood slice-of-high-school-life Americana -- almost a brat-pack movie trailer -- though with Korean faces instead of Western faces.

As innocent as it is, and it is supposed to be cutesy-humourous, it's just not the sort of thing I'd've expected most Koreans would be particularly keen to see in a public setting. And then there's the question of appropriateness in a fast-food restaurant, where the average age of customers tonight was probably nine or ten.

All of which means the Guru's just a ____________. (Please feel free to complete this sentence -- I won't hold it against you)

[Dan The Chainsawman]

daddy?

[hypnotist]

It's on TV too.

I was more shocked to see the fruit juice commercial entirely based around a couple snogging. What's with that?

[pet lover]

father coming home? I thought it was the husband coming home.

[mindmetoo]

Yeah! I swear I just saw a commercial where some little Korean girl tries to look at her mother's sweet asian love pillows through the gap in her blouse. Incest? THESE PEOPLE HAVE BECOME DEGENERATE! Have you seen what the ladies are wearing these days?

[JongnoGuru]

[JongnoGuru]

[Ya-ta Boy]

Back in the good old days ('94) one of the students said, "Before marriage there is no kissing. After marriage there isn't very much." This is the same class that had a middle school PE teacher who did the stereotypical flaming queen routine at a time when there were no gays in Korea.

My, my! how times change.

[Kimchieluver]

Guru, since you aren't holding it against me (pinky swear?). ...

Progress gestapo?

[JongnoGuru]