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[waggo]

Did I Imagine it!!
I saw a trailer on MBC last night where they were previewing all the disaster movies they will be showing to Commemorate SEPT 11.

The Poseidon Adventure,Earthquake and the Towering inferno.All these were mixed with clips of the real thing!!!!

What on earth are these people thinking?

[canuckistan]

Nothing like death and destruction to commemorate death and destruction.

[masuro]

A few days after the Sept. 11th terrorist attacks there were video stores with special displays of all their terrorist movies and many stores had 'Terror Explosion Sales'. Very poor taste.
MBC showing those movies is not surprising to me. Businesses (and some people) seem to be very insensitive to things that might offend Westerners (the Nazi bars in Seoul, for example).

[JackSarang]

In North America, in the days after 9/11 the video rentals of any and all movies having to do with terrorism skyrocketed. Its not just here in Korea.

[Plastic B]

ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
9/11 = hilarious
ask 500 million muslims

[Gwangjuboy]

Maybe they should have done the 63 building instead. Might have made Seoul's skyline look a bit more attractive.

[Seoultrader]

Classics I've always wanted to see again. Finally somehting good to come out of that mess.

[katydid]

[Holyjoe]

It's not really on the same scale... but the day the war in Iraq began, AFKN showed "Saving Private Ryan".

Wonder if that was coincidental

[Gord]

[HardyandTiny]

Koreans have very little of their own to celebrate. Their entertainment has little history. In the future it will be worse. They will eventually have to accept that thier perception of history is flawed and they will become even more violent. Korean people will try to kill everyone that is not Korean. They will.....Kim JeeHad!

[Homer]

Scary but...good point Gord...

The Nov 11th War movie marathon...ah yes..all war..all day..and of course to pay respect to fallen veterans of both world wars.
The rental thing after 9-11 is true, most stores back home were all out of any and all disastermovies for a while after 9-11.
This week, NBC is playing a TV movie about the hero-passengers of one of the flights.
There are 6 more TV movies in the pipeline. They will milk it to death.
Perhaps the Korean approach to it, i.e. mixing real footage with movie previews, lacks tact but its the same idea different method.
Lets not get too hot under the collar here.

[HardyandTiny]

[VanIslander]

"What on earth were they thinking?" waggo asks. It's likely more about what they aren't thinking.

It's easier to convince a pig farmer in Canada of the significance of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Centre and Pentagon than it is to impress an everpresent threat on some overseas nations whose only sense of danger arising from 9/11 is generated by a televised image.

Specifically, The Middle East is the Too Far West for Koreans to feel scared about. And the magnitude of the destruction pales in comparison to the millions of civilians who died in the Korean war. A Korean student told me he was scared when he learned of the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, because the cities were so close to this eastern Korean city.

The logic of terrorism in the Irish and Islamic contexts is lost on a people that can only identify with the fear by proxy: earthquakes and fires.

Perhaps one can fault the Korean t.v. station MBC for being insensitive to the sensibilities of relatively few of its viewers. But to expect Koreans to have a special, reverent empathy for that particular tragedy is... well, stretching it. Maybe you think they should be thinking about it in a certain way. Or maybe you're just going with your gut reaction as a foreigner.

[whatthefunk]

I saw the add for this last night. I was shocked. Mixing the real footage of the towers collapsing with footage from the movies is just not a good idea.