In a piece of hard-hitting investigative journalism, Brian of Cathartidae REVEALS THE TRUTH behind the “Canucks need not apply” ad.
-
English Books on Korea... and More!
-
Visit My Brother's Film Review Site
In a piece of hard-hitting investigative journalism, Brian of Cathartidae REVEALS THE TRUTH behind the “Canucks need not apply” ad.
24 Comments
I can’t believe that anyone with more than two brain cells to rub together would have ever thought it was anything other than a joke from the beginning.
I’ll cross-post here what I wrote at Cathartidae:
Hah hah, I knew it! No one could have been as on-the-mark with the anti-Canadian insults except a fellow Canucklehead. And the name was a dead giveaway. What more stereotypically stuffily Anglo-Canadian name could there be than “Bernard Carleton”?
http://www.godhatescanada.com/
The whole thing is just silly.
Who would take the ad seriously to begin with? It just didn’t pass the “smell test.”
It says more about 1) the current state of KScene 2) the mainstream Korean expat press (does that even make sense) than it does the state of the expat community.
As a Canadian, I thought the article was hilarious, because in some ways it was true. There are some socialists in Canada who fully support the idea of generous welfare with no strings attached, who have no problem with taxing the rich to the hilt (or even anybody making more than 24 grand a year), and who would rather not work hard (or at all) and would only be too happy to force others to pay more taxes so they could lounge around forever, as many in Germany and France and other over the top welfare states allow. Mind you, you’ve gotta realize I knew alot of university students and people in the arts, so socialistic thinking was common.
Jay Leno just showed this on the newspaper clipping section of the Tonight Show.
I thought I caught the tail end of that…I wonder who sent it in? (Does AFKN or one of the Korean networks show up-to-date episodes of the Tonight Show?)
Sewing, AFN Korea does show ‘The Tonight Show’, but not the current broadcast - they’re anywhere from a week to several behind.
On second thought, maybe the story got picked up stateside, sent out by one of the wire services—under the “oddball” category or whatever it’s generally called—and mailed in by a viewer here in North America. I was just thinking initially, “Gee, someone mailed this clipping in, all the way from Korea?”
Sewing, where exactly are you these days - in Daegu, the States, or Canada? No, I’m not stalking, just, er, curious
gbnhj wrote:
Sewing, AFN Korea does show ‘The Tonight Show’, but not the current broadcast - they’re anywhere from a week to several behind.
That is not correct. For the most part, the broadcast is shown about seven hours after its broadcast in the Pacific Time Zone (California). Thus, Monday night’s show in California, shown at 11:30 p.m., would be shown in Korea on Tuesday at 10:30 p.m., when it is 6:30 a.m. on Tuesday in California.
The exceptions are when California’s Friday broadcast is shown the following Monday night in Korea. Also, when the Tonight Show goes on hiatus, weeks-old reruns are shown, but this is true in the US as well, I believe.
Saturday Night Live is a different matter. 11:30 p.m. on Saturday in California would be 6:30 or 7:30 a.m. in Korea on Sunday, depending on the time of year. Rather than showing SNL on Sunday night, they choose to broadcast it the following Saturday night, so that’s almost a week old.
Kushibo:
Cool. As much as I like absorbing myself in all the old Korean movies they show on late night TV, it would have been neat to pick up a timely show or two back from this side of the ocean when I was over there.
Gbnhj:
Hah, hah. I wish I could come up with something witty, but I can’t. Live in Canada (though sometimes I feel like I have to play that down on forums like this!), watch American TV (like every other Canadian—it’s just that most of my compatriots won’t admit it ;)), and just got back from one of my periodic journeys to exotic Korea.
Sewing, I’m glad you appreciated my post. So many people think that by writing such a long explanation of what’s really going on over AFN’s airwaves, that I’m just acting as an apologist for AFN. But that’s not what it is at all; I just don’t like to see misinformation thrown around about AFN which causes people to draw inaccurate conclusions.
I’m glad you appreciated my appreciation.
Anyhow, it doesn’t matter how old an SNL episode is when it’s broadcast: it’s already stale. Just recycling the same tired old one-dimensional characters over and over again….
Well, perhaps I don’t watch enough late-night TV. To me, the few times I do watch that show, it always seems to be dated. Sorry if anyone’s been messed up by this, and please, please don’t draw any inaccurate conclusions about AFN based on what I written above. Instead, I recommend that you go to the AFN website (http://afnkorea.net/), view the material they’ve posted, and make evaluative judgements on your own.
AFN Korea is not even broadcasting SNL any longer.
AFN Korea is not even broadcasting SNL any longer.
Really? When did that happen? My cable has been acting up for over a month, so I haven’t had a chance to know that for sure.
Anyway, what I described was true when it was on recently.
Again: everyone, please - no rushes to judgement regarding AFN Korea and what it broadcasts. kushibo has merely described a scheduling condition for the channel that does not actually occur at the present time - nothing more.
Yes, please remain calm and do not riot or cut off a finger because SNL is not being shown anymore
Yes, this thread has sure taken a very strange turn. Well, it beats the usual debates ’round these parts, I suppose.
Just remember to keep OPSEC in mind.
God, one hour until lunch….
Man, and all I wanted to know is if the latest episode of Leno is available in Korea….
With apologies to Letterman…sorry, Dave, I prefer Leno these days…you just haven’t been the same since you jumped to CBS way back when.
I think Ferguson is better than both but you have to have the “why do I live here insomnia” working.