Comments on: Asian nations cautioning women about marrying Korean men: Maeil Gyeongje

By: sewing

sewing — Wed, 03 May 2006 05:59:56 +0000

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By: random guy

random guy — Wed, 03 May 2006 04:51:56 +0000

What’s the Korean title of this movie?

By: jodi

jodi — Wed, 03 May 2006 04:09:48 +0000

There’s a graphic vomit scene in there.

By: sewing

sewing — Wed, 03 May 2006 01:51:41 +0000

Um, I’m trying to place that scene, but I can’t recall one like that….

By: R. Elgin

R. Elgin — Wed, 03 May 2006 01:40:19 +0000

Is that the movie where the ajoshi falls down and starts spinning around in the floor after drinking too much or am I thinking of the Three Stoogies . . . ?

By: sewing

sewing — Wed, 03 May 2006 00:34:42 +0000

(What Jodi mentioned—the closing down of the matchmaking agency—is not a spoiler, as that’s not the end of the movie….)

By: sewing

sewing — Wed, 03 May 2006 00:33:08 +0000

That was a great movie, full of plausibly realistic and dramatic (not melodramatic) details—while still managing to be a romantic comedy. And I can’t say too much without giving away the ending, the story’s resolution involves another issue that is presumably unfashionable to discuss in Uri Party circles. It won’t disappoint, and it definitely goes against the grain of some other contemporary movies such as JSA and Welcome to Dongmakgol. (Whoops, I’m giving away too much already!)

(As a bonus, there’s a great scene of a woman who appears to be ethnically Russian, speaking in broad Gyeongsang dialect.)

By: jodi

jodi — Wed, 03 May 2006 00:19:08 +0000

By coincidence, last night a co-worker lent me her copy of the DVD “My Wedding Campaign” in which two rural guys go off to Uzbekistan looking for wives via a Korean match making service.

It’s a romance-comedy film so it’d be dangerous to assume it portrays reality although I was surprised one part of it did include a barrage of complaints from female Uzbek escapees who claimed they were mislead by the match making company regarding the men they married.

In the end, the Uzbek government forces the Korean agency to close down and gives the Koreans currently there for the agency’s services 48 hours to leave the country as the whole matchmaking thing was described as being a “disturbance to Uzbek society” or something like that.

Anyway, it was just interesting and I was surprised the movie included such a twist.

By: Brendon Carr

Brendon Carr — Wed, 03 May 2006 00:01:14 +0000

Notice no mention is made of rights or protections for foreign husbands…

By: Iceberg

Iceberg — Tue, 02 May 2006 23:51:12 +0000

I’m looking forward to Nulji’s comments.