In town to promote his new film, actor Nicolas Cage apparently caused quite a stir by starting off a press conference Monday by greeting the audience in Korea. The problem — due to the boisterous venue and Cage’s apparently poor pronunciation, the Korean reporters had no idea what the hell he said. Post tape analysis, however, confirmed that the actor said, “Annyeong hashimnikka?” (Hello), “Bangapseumnida” (Nice to meet you)” and “hanguk keombaek” (Korea come back — don’t ask me what the hell that means).
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So we are to gather he learned that Korean from the girl he met at that bar in Korea Town? Good for him man, I’ve always felt that language acquisition is the best side-effect of fetishizing other cultures.
The real question that begs to be asked is this: has Nicholas Cage endured a family dinner with overbearing, stuffy Korean in-laws yet, replete with unfamiliar, Caucasian olfactory sense offending Korean cuisine like daeng-jang chigae, kimchi chigae, kalchi (WITH all the little fish bones) and trying to explain things like ‘The Declaration of Indenpedence’ in highly bastard Korean-English?
About eight years ago (or nine) I was sitting at the bar in Musso and Franks on Hollywood Blvd., next to Cage and his friend, a blonde with really big…eyes. She kept bumming cigarettes off me, so the three of us ended up talking until my friend showed up. If only I had a time machine to go back and tell him that later we would both be married to Korean women…maybe I could have warned him! (Just kidding, love the missus, really.)
That’s hilarious. I’m just glad he didn’t use any of the cheesy pick-up lines he’s learned at the Korean Clubs here in L.A. like “nuh e-pu dah” or “nah benz tah” or the ever popular “Nuh oht buh suh.”
wangkon – yours was hilarious. My favorite part of foreigners learning Korean is when they only learn from their girlfriends/wives and learn the often used female phrases. Nothing stranger than a large American using phrases that middle school girls use.
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Hey, Nick Cage in a Hanbok!
Good for him. Perhaps one of his agents told him that naive, low international-IQ having Korean people tend get a real kick out of seeing waeguk-in, esp Caucasians, doing mundane Korean things like eating kimchi, wearing hanbok, or speaking Korean, no matter how bad it sounds. But I’d prefer to think that Cage is doing all this out of genuine love for his wife and to gain a real appreciation of Korean culture. BTW, I wonder if he was also told that it is also a time honored Korean wedding tradition for the men on the bride’s side to tie the groom, hold him upside down, strip his feet bare, and take turns vigorously smacking the soles of his feet with a sturdy wooden club?
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