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Smee
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 Posted: Fri Sep 29, 2006 8:17 am Post subject: LG Sweats Over Phone Ads Plagarism |
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| LG Electronics has suffered from a lot of bad publicity this week, with the leak of personal information of job applicants on Tuesday and with controversy over its TV commercial�s originality. |
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The commercial, known as ``Folder-era,�� shows a young couple hanging out in an empty school playground of a rural village. The woman, played by actress Kim Tae-hee, folds her body flat on a horizontal bar as her boyfriend watches. Then the image overlaps with LG�s folder-type mobile phone, Cyon.
A number of Internet users say that the characters and the scenery in the commercial are too similar to those of a newspaper advertisement by Mitsubishi Motors. On Friday, LG said that it has stopped airing the commercial, though that does not mean the company admits it was planned plagiarism.
``The commercial was not a copy. So there is nothing more to talk about,�� a company spokesperson said on the phone.
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http://times.hankooki.com/lpage/200609/kt2006092921383912070.htm |
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Guri Guy
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| Posted: Fri Sep 29, 2006 7:39 pm Post subject: |
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Check out http://www.occidentalism.org
They have an article in their archives about Koreans copying things.. Funny stuff.
Dead or Alive Xtreme Beach Volleyball copied by Korean games maker
Posted in Scams, Technology at 7:18 am by Matt
Dead or Alive Xtreme Beach Volleyball (DOAX) is the latest in the line of Japanese products to �inspire� Koreans to make their own versions. The Korean version (let us be kind and not call it a rip-off) is called Girl Spike, and uses the same concept as DOAX - meaning big breasted girls playing volleyball.
Here is a side by side comparison of the two. DOAX is on the left, Girl Spike on the right. I still think the original is graphically better, even though it was released in 2003.
Here is the link for the article. Scroll down the page to see it.
http://www.occidentalism.org/?cat=8 |
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Hollywoodaction
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| Posted: Fri Sep 29, 2006 8:30 pm Post subject: |
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| Plagiarism in advertisement is big in Korea. I've been to several shootings of print and TV commercials and the photographer or directors always had cut outs or videos of foreign adds (never Korean) that they were trying to replicate. |
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Hosub
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| Posted: Fri Sep 29, 2006 8:41 pm Post subject: |
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| The hell is Starpreya Coffee? |
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dogbert
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| Posted: Fri Sep 29, 2006 8:54 pm Post subject: |
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| The hell is Starpreya Coffee? |
One step below "Prowstar" |
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rothkowitz
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| Posted: Fri Sep 29, 2006 9:17 pm Post subject: |
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The Korean public rarely see anything foreign and people overseas have little or no interest in Korea in general.
Hallyu is a bit of a joke.....just a few soap operas ans singers.Whipdedoo.
Hence,they can generally get away with ripping off stuff,or,at least make enough before pulling it. |
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Hollywoodaction
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| Posted: Sat Sep 30, 2006 1:50 am Post subject: |
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| rothkowitz wrote: |
The Korean public rarely see anything foreign and people overseas have little or no interest in Korea in general.
Hallyu is a bit of a joke.....just a few soap operas ans singers.Whipdedoo.
Hence,they can generally get away with ripping off stuff,or,at least make enough before pulling it. |
No, what's funny about Halyu is that the few Korean movies that do get international recognition (and these are pretty good ones too) hardly get noticed in Korea. Just look at what they picked to submit to the Oscars this year.
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Smee
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| Posted: Sat Sep 30, 2006 1:50 am Post subject: |
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A few days ago I posted a story about Hankook Tire�s clever ad that stretched the bounds of Korea�s sexual mores. It turns out that it was a �worn� idea. (Badabing!)
The company has pulled the ad under threat of plagiarism. Goodyear Canada had already used the �tire as condom� concept in 2004 for it�s Dunlop brand and in fact won an award for it. According to the story in the Chosun Ilbo, an insider with the company said Hankook was �unable to ascertain whether the ad was plagiarized.�
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Korea�s no. 1 tire firm Hankook Tire stands accused of blatant plagiarism in its latest ad campaign. The advert unveiled at the end of March offended some sensibilities here ahead of its launch with an image of a tire peeking out of a condom wrapper and the legend, "Enjoy driving� -- a suggestion that a Hankook tire is to safe driving what a condom is to safe sex.
That extra publicity may have been its downfall. Netizens point out that the ad, which is pictured on all major portal sites, essentially replicates one for Goodyear Canada, which won a prize at the New York Festival in 2004. The condom wrappers are in slightly different colors, but in every other way they are much the same.
The gaffe coincides with another plagiarism controversy here surrounding Lee Hyo-lee�s song �Get Ya�, which is uncomfortably close to Britney Spears� �Do Something.� Hankook Tire has withdrawn the ad, although an insider with the company said Hankook was �unable to ascertain whether the ad was plagiarized.�
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Smee
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| Posted: Sat Sep 30, 2006 1:58 am Post subject: |
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The Korean public rarely see anything foreign and people overseas have little or no interest in Korea in general.
Hallyu is a bit of a joke.....just a few soap operas ans singers.Whipdedoo.
Hence,they can generally get away with ripping off stuff,or,at least make enough before pulling it. |
No, what's funny about Halyu is that the few Korean movies that do get international recognition hardly get noticed in Korea. |
Flipping through Korea-related academic journals, most of them have an issue devoted entirely to Hallyu. Korean "scholars" recognizing the Korean Wave as a chance to (1) promote Korea's international image, and (2) export Korean culture around the world. Most of the writers concluded that the Korean Wave is so successful in Asia b/c the Asian values represented in the dramas are closer culturally to these markets than are American movies and shows.
While they bemoan the influence of the damned Americans and the cultural genocide taking place, they turn around and inflict Korean entertainment on Japan, China, and their darker Asian brothers.
The big disconnect here, and the one none of the writeres mentioned, is that Korea still trends toward being a cultural importer. And when you look at the (much of) the music, movies, shows, and advertisements, all you see is poorly imitated knock-offs. The reasons Asians view plagiarism differently is a whole 'nother issue, but I'd love for the smaller voices doing stuff in Korea to get heard. But that's not an image Korea wants to project to the world. |
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Hollywoodaction
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| Like I said, I've witnessed first-hand on several occasions photographers and directors plagiarizing foreign ads and pictures. The reason they plagiarize foreign ideas only is because Korean law states that plagiarism will only be investigated if the orginal artist files a complaint. The odds are pretty slim that a foreign ad agencies gets word of the plagiarism because the Korean adds are only viewed by the local market. The same goes on with music. Two very popular Korean rock songs from the mid 90's (still in use in TV ads and movies) that were supposedly 'written' by the same singer appear to have been stolen. One of the songs has the exact melody and arrangement than a song by a French folk-rock group of the early 90's, Soldat Louis. The other song strongly resembles a song that was previously recorded by Canadian artist, Richard Seguin. |
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Qinella
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| Posted: Sat Sep 30, 2006 2:08 am Post subject: |
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| No, what's funny about Halyu is that the few Korean movies that do get international recognition (and these are pretty good ones too) hardly get noticed in Korea. Just look at what they picked to submit to the Oscars this year. |
http://film.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,1877594,00.html
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South Korea has picked a low-budget, gay-themed film to be its official submission for the best foreign language film Oscar at the 79th annual Academy Awards.
The King and the Clown, Lee Jun-Ik's film about an effeminate male clown caught between the affections of a 16th-century tyrannical king and the love of a fellow performer, became the unexpected all-time highest-grossing film in the republic early this year - it was reported that one in four South Koreans saw it in cinemas. The film only lost that position this month to The Host, a thriller about a family's fight against a mutant monster. |
왕의 남자 hardly got noticed in Korea? |
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rothkowitz
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| Posted: Sat Sep 30, 2006 2:26 am Post subject: |
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Koreans go nuts for gay themes in pop culture.Just look at TV.They find it uproariously funny.
Anyway,to me Korean pop songs and soap operas represent a "Korean wave" as much as Home ans Away and neighbours represented an "Aussie wave".
Could it merely be that countries buy these programmes cos its just cheaper and look a little betterthan making their own?
Who cares about the ruddy Oscars?
Kim Ki Duk would have been a better choice.Haven't seen Time yet though. |
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Smee
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| Posted: Sat Sep 30, 2006 2:28 am Post subject: |
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Are there any new developments in the Brittney Spears vs. Lee Hyori case?
Anyway, I don't even know if movies are considered at the forefront of the Korean Wave. (I can't believe I'm thinking about Hallyu.) I think dramas are first, followed by music. You see posters of Moo Gun-yeong, BoA, and the Engrish speaker from JSA all over the place in different Asian countries, and it's real easy to find Korean dramas on TV throughout Asia.
When we're talking about not being internationally known, we're mostly talking about known in the West. North America and Europe still shape what's going on. In the US at least, a big problem is distribution deals. They have a hard time even getting big-budget Chinese movies shown in the US, let alone some movie with Lee Jun-gi. |
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Hollywoodaction
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| Posted: Sat Sep 30, 2006 8:46 pm Post subject: |
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| No, what's funny about Halyu is that the few Korean movies that do get international recognition (and these are pretty good ones too) hardly get noticed in Korea. Just look at what they picked to submit to the Oscars this year. |
http://film.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,1877594,00.html
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South Korea has picked a low-budget, gay-themed film to be its official submission for the best foreign language film Oscar at the 79th annual Academy Awards.
The King and the Clown, Lee Jun-Ik's film about an effeminate male clown caught between the affections of a 16th-century tyrannical king and the love of a fellow performer, became the unexpected all-time highest-grossing film in the republic early this year - it was reported that one in four South Koreans saw it in cinemas. The film only lost that position this month to The Host, a thriller about a family's fight against a mutant monster. |
왕의 남자 hardly got noticed in Korea? |
A low budget movie by foreign standards, Wang-ui Namja was a rather large production for a Korean movie. I don't buy the 'unexpected success' story, either. Countless TV shows and webpages (internet marketing?) hyped the movie to the point that even my mother-in-law (a conservative church-going little old lady) went to see it...and she didn't even see the Passion of Christ (she hated Wang-ui Namja, by the way). They chose the most popular movie, not the best one (that and they think that the homosexual undertones of the movie might give it a chance at an award). Oh, and don't kid yourself. Most people went to see that movie because they were fascinated by the androgenous good looks of one of the main actors (don't forget that it came out just as the term 'metrosexual' became the new buzz-word in Korea). |
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blaseblasphemener
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| dogbert wrote: |
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| The hell is Starpreya Coffee? |
One step below "Prowstar" |
so, one step above what was in my toilet this morning. |
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