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PimpofKorea
Joined: 09 Dec 2006
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 Posted: Thu Dec 21, 2006 4:32 am Post subject: Waygooks on TV |
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| I don't know if this is a new trend in Korean TV but it seems that when I am watching TV at nights they always have a 1 hr. show dedicated to some foreign guy and his daily life in Korea. Last night there was some white english teacher guy and his wife and kids. The time before that there was some Peru guy that plays guitar in the subways and before that there was this Pakistani guy that sold fruit on the streets. What the hell is so fascinating about these guys? The whole show is dedicated to following these guys around and watching them go to mundane jobs, eating dinner and what have you. Do Korean people actually enjoy watching some foreigner go through his daily routine? I wonder how these types of shows would fare back in the states or wherever. "And here we have a guatamalan guy getting ready to mow this rich white guy's lawn...stay tuned next week as we will have a double header...a guy from Morocco working the late shift at 7-11 and a mexican working at the local Taco Bell...." |
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Roch
Joined: 24 Apr 2003
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Thu Dec 21, 2006 4:39 am Post subject: Re: Waygooks on TV |
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| PimpofKorea wrote: |
| I don't know if this is a new trend in Korean TV but it seems that when I am watching TV at nights they always have a 1 hr. show dedicated to some foreign guy and his daily life in Korea. Last night there was some white english teacher guy and his wife and kids. The time before that there was some Peru guy that plays guitar in the subways and before that there was this Pakistani guy that sold fruit on the streets. What the hell is so fascinating about these guys? The whole show is dedicated to following these guys around and watching them go to mundane jobs, eating dinner and what have you. Do Korean people actually enjoy watching some foreigner go through his daily routine? I wonder how these types of shows would fare back in the states or wherever. "And here we have a guatamalan guy getting ready to mow this rich white guy's lawn...stay tuned next week as we will have a double header...a guy from Morocco working the late shift at 7-11 and a mexican working at the local Taco Bell...." |
That is funny!
A couple of years ago, there was a man from England who had quite the frank discussions with the television interviewer about his pain in the neck mother-in-law who used to nearly command him to eat and eat. The show definitely did not make one think that he had it easy being the gal's wife. |
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PimpofKorea
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| Posted: Thu Dec 21, 2006 4:47 am Post subject: Re: Waygooks on TV |
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That is funny!
A couple of years ago, there was a man from England who had quite the frank discussions with the television interviewer about his pain in the neck mother-in-law who used to nearly command him to eat and eat. The show definitely did not make one think that he had it easy being the gal's wife.[/quote]
Yeah I am sure that one is sitting in some producer's basement. Every one of these shows have these guys living the Korean dream and totally enjoying every aspect of their lives....I'd like to see one of them go..."you know what I really hate...those old Korean men that hang out outside of Family Mart..other than that I love it here" |
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jajdude
Joined: 18 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Thu Dec 21, 2006 4:59 am Post subject: |
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| Some of those shows are not so bad. It's interesting when they are in another country, like Cambodia or Philippines, showing that culture a bit. |
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Ginormousaurus
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| Posted: Thu Dec 21, 2006 5:03 am Post subject: |
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| There was a crew from KBS (I think) at Sogang today following one of the American students around. I guess he gets to be on tv too. |
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SuperHero
Joined: 10 Dec 2003
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| Posted: Thu Dec 21, 2006 5:15 am Post subject: |
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| Ginormousaurus wrote: |
| There was a crew from KBS (I think) at Sogang today following one of the American students around. I guess he gets to be on tv too. |
I saw the camera but had no idea what was going on... |
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sock
Joined: 07 Oct 2006
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| Posted: Thu Dec 21, 2006 5:39 am Post subject: |
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I think those kinds of shows are a great idea. That way, Koreans can stare all they want at those strange waygookins from the privacy of their own homes. Then when they go out in public and they see me, well, hopefully they will have already fulfilled their staring quota for the week.
In some ways I think it's good because if anything, it shows that non-Koreans are just regular people too. Of course, it's only a drop in the bucket, but hey, it's a start. |
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RACETRAITOR
Joined: 24 Oct 2005
Location: Seoul, South Korea
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| Posted: Thu Dec 21, 2006 6:33 pm Post subject: |
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| It would be hilarious to get a few conspirators and script out a bit of drama for that show. Then one of us volunteers to have cameras follow us, and suddenly we're deluged by (acting) jealous ex-girlfriends, hooligans looking for a fight, and whatever else we can come up with. |
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Newbie
Joined: 07 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Thu Dec 21, 2006 6:37 pm Post subject: |
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Like everything done in this country it can all be explained by NATIONAL PRIDE.
"ooh, oooh. Look at these foreigner trying to live in Korea. They love it here! THey want so much to be like us! Ahhh, Korea. We ARE so great. HUB OF ASIA! HUB OF ASIA! HUB OF ASIA!" |
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Mea
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| Posted: Thu Dec 21, 2006 6:54 pm Post subject: |
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| I think that's the sort of show I would like to watch... I like "slice of life" movies so why not TV too? |
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Ya-ta Boy
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| Posted: Thu Dec 21, 2006 7:53 pm Post subject: |
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| whatever else we can come up with |
I like this idea. We need to choose someone who can give a really pitiful look...and do things like show them standing in the rain as taxi after taxi passes by, getting short-changed at LG 25, stared at on the street, being told by the boss that payday has been delayed yet again, talking to 3 different Immi guys and getting 3 different answers...
Lots of room for innovation and creativity. |
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MissSeoul
Joined: 25 Oct 2006
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| Posted: Fri Dec 22, 2006 3:43 am Post subject: Re: Waygooks on TV |
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| PimpofKorea wrote: |
| The time before that there was some Peru guy that plays guitar in the subways " |
I've read his story on monthly women magazine about a year ago.
It was a story how a lovly korean girl fall in love and married with this poor guy from Peru.
He plays guitar ( also sing ) in the subways and sell his own music disks.
She gave up her well paying job and help him to sell his music disks in the subways. |
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jg
Joined: 27 May 2003
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| Posted: Fri Dec 22, 2006 7:33 am Post subject: |
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| Maybe shows like that are for the many Koreans who have no exposure to people of different ethnic or cultural backgrounds - and who might be curious. Or from another religion. If all they do is show them going about their daily routine, at least it isn't fetishizing them or making them out to be buffoons. Sounds far better than most "reality" shows - for one thing, it sounds closer to reality. |
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OCOKA Dude
Joined: 04 Oct 2004
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Sat Dec 23, 2006 9:42 am Post subject: Re: Waygooks on TV |
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| MissSeoul wrote: |
| PimpofKorea wrote: |
| The time before that there was some Peru guy that plays guitar in the subways " |
I've read his story on monthly women magazine about a year ago.
It was a story how a lovly korean girl fall in love and married with this poor guy from Peru.
He plays guitar ( also sing ) in the subways and sell his own music disks.
She gave up her well paying job and help him to sell his music disks in the subways. |
This is so hilarious. Peruvian and Guatemalan street & subway "musicians" are a dime a dozen in the urban U.S., especially in cities like Chicago and New York.
They play their little Andean flutes & guitars strumming the three same bars and chords over and over again, ad nauseum. They are not only a common fixture during evening rush hour when they set up their makeshift concerts in the subways of downtown cities, they are also completely ignored and people have become quite sick of their dumb performances over the year to the point where they are considered a public nuisance and some effort has gone into getting them removed from high traffic areas.
I started seeing these guys set up shop in Korean subway stations about five years ago, and the Koreans went bonkers for them -- like who has never heard a bunch of Peruvian street musicians before? And for some girl to get hooked up with one is so pathetic -- as they are well known for being associated with Andean drug traffickers as they usually make their income not from street performances, but as globetrotting coke mules. (Where you see these guys is where you'll find drug trafficking in coke going on behind the scenes.)
Great! Local girl hooks up with a coke trafficker! What'll Korean girls think up of next? How stupid they are! |
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Roch
Joined: 24 Apr 2003
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Sat Dec 23, 2006 12:06 pm Post subject: |
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The Nigerians are probably connected to these drug runners!
The naked guy with ties to the C.I.A. may have been offed by one of these sordid characters! |
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