It’s not everyday that “Inter-Korean issues” meet “Korean tabloid crap.”
Anyway, get ready for Samsung Anycall’s “Lee Hyo-ri meets Cho Myong-ae” commercials, which should hit South Korean airwaves starting June 11. Cho, of course, is a 23-year-old dancer who’s a member of North Korea’s Mansudae Art Troupe based in Pyongyang. The four part series will feature the two artists meeting and sympathizing with one another through — you guessed it — Samsung’s Anycall cell phone. According to Herald Live News:
The general storyline tells the tale of Cho and Lee meeting for the first time during a joint North-South performance, feeling curiosity and goodwill toward one another and sympathy as young people from North and South Korea.
Personally, I think the “Cho and Lee meet and express curiosity in one another” part has potential.
The first two episodes — “Cho Myong-ae” and “Lee Hyo-ri” — will air simultaneously. The “Cho Myong-ae” episode features Cho doing the “water jar dance” as Lee watches her through her satellite DMB phone. You never see Lee, yet she says, “I see you for the first time, yet you do not seem unfamiliar.”
Hmm… I think I can get into this whole intra-Korean reconciliation thing.
The “Lee Hyo-ri” episode features Cho watching Lee on stage. The development on their interest in one another is expressed when Cho says, “The moment I first saw Hyo-ri, I thought, ‘She is really quite beautiful.’ As a woman like me, I want to meet her.”
Yes! Yes!
The other two episodes appear less interesting, with the two finally meeting in the hallway (but not speaking, or speaking while not speaking) and Lee sending Cho as a present a Samsung satellite DMB phone that Cho immediately turns over to her KWP commissar to be disassembled for missile guidance parts.
UPDATE: Chosun runs English article on the commercial.
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Hey Marmot, one question. Whats with the pothead? Don’t tell me thats some korean cultural thing? Looks kind of goofy to me, you know cause balancing a pot on your head is such a pedestrian task.
What I am wondering is when we will all get to see Miss Cho dressed and made up like Lee Hyo-ri? Not that the hanbok doesn’t do her justice but…
Hah hah, good one, Marmot! You got a little carried away on this one: a little innuendo, a little politics….
Cho Myong-ae looks white to me. She must have a lot of Russian blood in her. She does not look Oriental at all.
You’re right baduk. We should stone her to death, you know she’s a heathen too.
The only potheads here are the ad guys who thought up this idiotic fantasy.
Now if we could just add topless photos on the phones of Canadian-Korean wrestler GAIL KIM that would get me to watch those commercials!
Who is Cho’s agent? Is Dear Leader managing this himself? I wonder what type of tax is levied on a North Korean’s paycheck from Samsung.
Where will this lead? If it all goes well maybe Cho could be the Juche party candidate for the South Korean presidency in 2007.
Cho is probably mixed Korean and Russian.
As for Jing’s question about the pot on her head. That is actually how women in old Korea used to carry stuff like pot of water to transport, right up to 1970’s and 80’s. If you think about it, it’s amazing how they are able to balance the heavy weight, then walk with that on their heads for miles.
Cho looks severely constipated. Maybe carrying that pot around on her noggin has something to do with it. Gotta hand it to the ad guys though, like during the Dokdo Dustup, they know that Product+Hypernationalism=$$$$
We should have a Korean gangster and he will be very old fashioned, he says….
“The North Korean looks like a South Korean about to get married the South Korean looks like an American”
cut cut cut cut cut clips of the girls….
then some super skinny girl in a bathing suit is standing in a kitchen cokking, she’s repeating the same motion and saying over and over “neh neh neh neh neh
cut to home shopping and a man having hair sprayed on his head
cut to a young man lying on a bed repeating “ajumma ajumma ajumma ajumma ajumma”
interweave more hair spray shots and then
the camera goes down the stairs closer to a voice screaming up “Oppa Oppa Oppa…
etc…
the north korean girl lacks of liveliness in her and reminds me of russian wooden doll called “Ма???€Ð???ка” except she doesn’t have the “баб????ка” scarf and she certainly is not round shaped.
I used to play with it when I was 6 years old. It’s kind of nested doll, there’s always a smaller and smaller doll inside of the bigger dolls and the last one would be the tiniest wooden doll you would ever see. I used to love it.
In English I believe it is known as matrioshka.
And the nesting dolls, “babushka” dolls, right?
Babushka means grandmother as in the well known children’s story Babushka Babayaga but I think you did read the crylic correctly.
Matrioshka is the name of the doll.
Yeah, okay, matrioshka dolls wearing babushka scarves….
yep babushka dolls, traditional russian dress is painted on the wooden doll big flowered scarf,skirt. Nowadays only grandmothers wear those big flowered scarves. Baba-yaga is a witch.
Yes, “babushka dolls” is the name learned when I was a kid. In the late 80s during glaznost and perestroika, if I recall correctly, the western media loved interviewing babushkas for their comments on Soviet life….
You fucking loosers whining about races and shit…
I’m thinking about the threesome with these two chicks. That hyon chic is da bomb. This cho girl is, too.
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I like hardandtiny’s idea best.
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