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[Len8]

Is there anything in the play that can be related back to Korea? I have seen sometthing about an Asian version of the play with Gwendollen being cast as an orphan from Korea and her mother being a wealthy philanthropist trying to secure a better life for her adopted daughter.

Maybe the fact that Cecily and Gwendollen are in love with a name could be compared with the Korean tendency to fall in like over something because every one else is doing the same thing.

Any other analogies that anyone can think of

[bobbyhanlon]

perhaps ernest could have been found in a fake louis vuitton handbag, having been switched with a 발라드 cd of unusually revolting sentimentality...

[Medic]

Korea's materialistic like other countries. Lady Fairfax changing her mind about Cecily's availability after hearing of her dowery or whatever is pretty much typical of the Korean mentality.

The dandy Algernon is typical of a lot of women hunting Korean students. Geeze you see it a lot with some guys who just can't stand to be without a woman. They don't do us normal guys proud.

The whole hypocricy thing is Korea too. Everything is wonderful and full of roses. No admittance of the real worldly behaviour of the masses.

[Len8]

Algernon and Mr Worthing have other lives that they attend to to get away from their daily humdrum. At the time it was the fashion for the aristocracy to use all kinds of excuses to visit the red light districts in the west end. One such excuse was ,like in Wildes play, to invent an important person he or she had to visit.

Similar behaviour to half of the Korean female population it seems.