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kathycanuck · Joined: 05 Dec 2005 Location: Namyangju

Has anyone noticed the strange inconsistencies in Korean censorship on TV? Last night I was channel surfing and there was a Korean movie, lots of nudity, and today on a nature show they "fuzzed out" a stallion's genitals! Seem a tad odd to anyone else?

Dan The Chainsawman · Joined: 05 May 2005

The horse's gochu was like way bigger than the average Korean's so in the humane interest of protecting the frail egos of korean males they blanked out the horse donk so them poor mama's boys would not go home and cry to mommy.

Gorgias · Joined: 27 Aug 2005

Dear kathycanuck,

Censorship is my issue of the week!

Know your enemy:

No, but seriously, this doesn't have anything to do with the kids and family values. What it has everything to do with is the conservatives who don't trust the responsibility of their fellow men and women to see and read what their curiosity rises in them to know, and then to have the reasonability to conduct themselves inlight of that knowledge. Don't believe for one second that pro-censors are protecting the kids, they don't trust you with challenging knowledge.

Koreans censor things we wouldn't, gross things are censored, like garbage, stool or brains. Where as a huge amount of partial nudity makes it onto late night TV. Koreans, I feel, have less tolerance for violence and murder and a touch more for sex than we do, this ought to be a good think. So perhaps "inconsistencies" is not the fairest word, from their perspective it is systematic, and from ours, maybe a healthier method.

But what isn't so cool is the government policy to block just about every web site that has a naughty word somewhere on it, despite what that site is even about. A dictionary site could be banned, which is absurd. Pc cafes and your home server are supposed to prevent you from reaching a miriad of sites, however poorly they fail at this. The PC-bang I'm at now prevents me from reading various psychology articles, yet admits me to kiddie sights. This however is a failure of technology. The real issue is the philosophy behind the strict censoring of both images and dialoge. There are Korean (legitimate) artists in prison now for their off-color works. Playboy is illegal here. Various news and intelectual informations have been blocked.

Don't blame the kids, blame the technocrats who treat the populus like kids.

mindmetoo · Joined: 02 Feb 2004

Swearing in English is okay as they rarely translate the swearing in subtitles. "Get yo' b&t&h ass outta here before i shove this mutha f&&&&&&g gun up your stinky c&&t and blow your mutha f&&&&&&g brains out the muth f&&&&&&g hard way, b&&&h" usually gets translated as "leave now".

But wow editing out a horse's hose... was the horse using it?

It used to bother me living in Seattle how American TV would edit out all the perfectly good and useful nudity and swearing that Canadian TV would let be. What I thought was really funny, during an American airing of True Lies, there's the scene with the french guy taping the romantic undressing script. He comments "who wrote this? It's s&&t!" and then follows up with "c'est merde". Of course they edited out the s-word but left in the French equivalent.

ajgeddes · Joined: 28 Apr 2004 Location: Yongsan

I was actually quite surprised when I went home last summer to Ontario, and I was watching TV at about 10AM on a Saturday, and I was flipping through the channels and there was a show on with full nudity. This was just cable TV. I kind of laughed and thought about all the young teens at home at the moment who probably love Saturday morning TV.

That is one thing I like about TV in Canada. Things aren't as censored as much as in other countries on TV. I'm always amused by how American TV allows the most brutal and gruesome scenes go without censorship, but then would not dare let a pair of breasts go without censoring them. They are just nipples, we all have them (reminds me of that Seinfeld episode.)

jazblanc77 · Joined: 22 Feb 2004

Censorship? Shotty reporting? Propaganda? In Korea? NO!

dulouz · Joined: 04 Feb 2003 Location: Uranus

I get tired of korea when I rent videos and DVD's and they are censored. i just sigh and do more downloading.

mindmetoo · Joined: 02 Feb 2004

hogwonguy1979 · Joined: 22 Dec 2003 Location: the racoon den

Gorgias · Joined: 27 Aug 2005

Apparently Playboy magazine is banned. However, I noticed in the paper yesterday that Playboy will be in Seoul shortly to do some recruiting.

Css · Joined: 27 Sep 2004 Location: South of the river

Good...goddamn horses always making me feel inadequate.

uberscheisse · Joined: 02 Dec 2003 Location: japan is better than korea.

i had a student who owned - owned the nightmare before christmas when she lived in the states. while owning it she watched it about 200 times, as kids are prone to do with favorite movies.

she returns to korea. she sees the nightmare before christmas in the video store. of course, being a kid, she wants to watch it again.

in korea it's rated "14". her mom won't let her watch it, though she's seen it 200 times.

now is this the fact that her mom doesn't want to endure it a 201st time, or is it because she has some subconscious need to adhere to dumbass authority?

i'm stuck.

chiaa · Joined: 23 Aug 2003

Hater Depot · Joined: 29 Mar 2005

There is also a more pernicious form of censorship.

http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200602/200602050001.html

igotthisguitar · Posted: Mon Feb 06, 2006 12:02 am Post subject:

What's up with randomly CENSORING of various brand & company names?

Does someone fear monkey seeing monkey buying?

Was watching the English "reality" cooking show "Hell's Kitchen" at around 11am couple months back.
Man, you wouldn't believe the language! Could hear it all clear as a bell.

Why the state censors didn't bleep it out ... i have noooooooo idea.