Not the most sophisticated fare around, but I’d still warch it over Korean shows like “Love Story in Harvard”, “I’m Sorry I Love You” or “Brain Survivor”, plus most of the sit-coms or reality shows from the States…
Candu, Be honest, why villify only sit-coms or reality shows from the states? They both generally suck and that goes equally for the Korean imitations of the American originals.
Actually, there have been a few decent Korean sit-com efforts, such as “Non-Stop” when it first came out, before it got so childish and insipid.
The main Korean fare is what I call “Serial Soaps” - like Winter Sonata, and they are basically unimaginative, sappy, pretty much undistiguishable from one another and, without exception, insulting to human intelligence.
Compare k-drama to american soaps like the OC and “Desparate housewives” I think I lost 50 IQ points watching these shows.
There are numerous fan boards devoted to k-drama started and maintained by NON-koreans in america and elsewhere who would really disagree with you. And as for Winter Sonata or Winter Love Song, thousands of female fans from Japan, singapore, indonesia, hong kong, china, taiwan, the philipines, malaysia and even egypt would disagee with you.
Well, nobody’s going to read this comment on such an old thread, but what, pray tell, is wrong with “Love Story in Harvard” or “Brain Survivor”? I enjoyed LSIH precisely because half of it was in English, shot on location, with American actors (i.e., not English teachers, some of whom may be good teachers but are generally lousy TV actors). As for “Brain Survivor,” I’ve actually learned the odd thing or two from that show, not that I can recall any of it now!
…Geez, on LSIH, the law professor even had the Harvard accent downpat (assuming he was not actually a Harvard professor); considering that many Korean viewers probably wouldn’t pick up on the accent (since accent differentiation seems to come more naturally to first-language speakers of a language than second-language speakers), it was a subtle but notable detail.
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I think they need this:
http://people.brandeis.edu/~glenbae/Octopus.wmv (NOT work safe)
Was that filmed in an abortion clinic, or is that just some new type of epidural replacement?
Not the most sophisticated fare around, but I’d still warch it over Korean shows like “Love Story in Harvard”, “I’m Sorry I Love You” or “Brain Survivor”, plus most of the sit-coms or reality shows from the States…
Ah, Japanese TV… Is there no depth you wont plunge to in order to try and entertain us? You’re like all of Fox’s reality shows rolled into one.
God bless you.
That octopus clip has got to be by far the grossest thing I have ever seen in my entire life.
I’m with JP - even I’m stunned by the clip. Good work!
personally, I would never see any of this in my TV…
Candu, Be honest, why villify only sit-coms or reality shows from the states? They both generally suck and that goes equally for the Korean imitations of the American originals.
Actually, there have been a few decent Korean sit-com efforts, such as “Non-Stop” when it first came out, before it got so childish and insipid.
The main Korean fare is what I call “Serial Soaps” - like Winter Sonata, and they are basically unimaginative, sappy, pretty much undistiguishable from one another and, without exception, insulting to human intelligence.
?橫Love Story in Harvard?? ……………stupid soap.
what the frig was that octopus thing????
That is one of the craziest things I’ve seen..how did it get up there in the first place???
So was this one of the Japanese outtakes from 1983’s James Bond: Octopussy movie?
To mizarv:
Compare k-drama to american soaps like the OC and “Desparate housewives” I think I lost 50 IQ points watching these shows.
There are numerous fan boards devoted to k-drama started and maintained by NON-koreans in america and elsewhere who would really disagree with you. And as for Winter Sonata or Winter Love Song, thousands of female fans from Japan, singapore, indonesia, hong kong, china, taiwan, the philipines, malaysia and even egypt would disagee with you.
Well, nobody’s going to read this comment on such an old thread, but what, pray tell, is wrong with “Love Story in Harvard” or “Brain Survivor”? I enjoyed LSIH precisely because half of it was in English, shot on location, with American actors (i.e., not English teachers, some of whom may be good teachers but are generally lousy TV actors). As for “Brain Survivor,” I’ve actually learned the odd thing or two from that show, not that I can recall any of it now!
…Geez, on LSIH, the law professor even had the Harvard accent downpat (assuming he was not actually a Harvard professor); considering that many Korean viewers probably wouldn’t pick up on the accent (since accent differentiation seems to come more naturally to first-language speakers of a language than second-language speakers), it was a subtle but notable detail.
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