Comments on: Actors gettin’ their protest on

By: Hugh

Hugh — Thu, 09 Feb 2006 09:56:14 +0000

Korean movie stars address the average Mr. and Mrs. Choi:

“Citizens! You must all pay 30% more for your food and everyday goods than you need to, because WE are big movie stars and WE want to keep our money coming and WE come first!

Your sons and daughters and maybe you could use more jobs as Korean companies expand as a result of free trade with America, but to hell with that! Think of OUR jobs! You think living in Star Towwer is easy? “

By: setnaffa

setnaffa — Wed, 08 Feb 2006 21:17:09 +0000

We send them Hollywood movies and rice while they send us steel, electronics, and appliances… who is the loser there? I’ve seen their movies… they’re way ahead…

By: Wedge

Wedge — Wed, 08 Feb 2006 14:34:27 +0000

How can you people scoff at the plight of these poor actors? Why, they have only a 60% share of the nation’s screen-days right now. They can’t afford bi-weekly trips to their beloved Cannes unless the quota is raised to 75%.

And don’t get me started on the ero actresses. They have to suffer not only poor scriptwriting, but also male actors sporting facial expressions reminiscent of someone extruding a Lombardi Trophy out his ass.

By: Robert

Robert — Wed, 08 Feb 2006 07:23:27 +0000

Snow–Actually, the ladies hit the streets to prove that they were more than just T&A, and that ero actresses cared about “the issues,” including Iraq and dodgy foodstuffs (the latter was a big issue at the time because of the “dodgy mandu” scandal). Obviously, though, the issue they were most concerned about was the screen quota and blocking access to illegal Japanese porn.

By: snow

snow — Wed, 08 Feb 2006 06:22:43 +0000

I’m sympathetic to the poor eros actresses’ problems, but why does every assorted protest try to fit in a multitude of complaints onto their protest agenda? It seems that almost every protest nowadays (here and elsewhere in the world) includes the obligatory ‘US out of Iraq’ segment. They’re protesting over the film quota, Japanese porn invading Korea, food products and, oh yeah, the War in Iraq. Leave no stone unturned, always gotta throw that in as an afterthought. To their credit, the regular stars didn’t do this-or did they and I just missed it?

By: Max Watson

Max Watson — Wed, 08 Feb 2006 03:19:13 +0000

If only every article here could be linked to porn… Please?

By: dogbertt

dogbertt — Wed, 08 Feb 2006 03:00:19 +0000

“Friends of the screen quota, aid us. The Korean flag will unfurl across the world”? What if other nations had their own measures to keep out foreign (including Korean) movies? No whiff of hypocrisy there, Mr. Typhoon heartthrob?

By: michael

michael — Wed, 08 Feb 2006 02:31:59 +0000

Korean “ero”=beige grandma panties

By: Robert

Robert — Wed, 08 Feb 2006 02:28:10 +0000

Mt. Tan, you make light of these poor girls’ plight, but as I explained before in an old post, the Korean ero industry has been taking a beating thanks to the wide availability of online Japanese porn. Heck, if there was any sector of the Korean film business that needed a screen quota (or at least a monitor quota) if it’s to survive (not that you’d want it to) without making radical transformations, ero’s it.

By: bluejives

bluejives — Wed, 08 Feb 2006 02:21:05 +0000

I’m no huge fan of Hollywood, but I think the pro-quota protestors are a bunch of whiny crybabies who are raising a big stink over relatively nothing. What are they so worried about? Is the Korean film industry so lacking in confidence that it cant deal with an extra 73 days out of the year of competition with Hollywood? With all the talk about Hallyu and Korean Wave these days, one would think they can still prosper based on merit and not on protectionism which was implemented in the 60s. The farmers have a much better cause for protest than they.