You know, I have a sense of humor and all, but whoever did this song and video better hope to hell the netizens don’t get a hold of it, because if it doesn’t lead to a mass deportation of foreign English teachers from Korea, I don’t know what will.
Nice hanbok shirt on the guitarist, though.
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The same words over and over. Gonna be hearing ‘em all night.
They’d better brush up on their sincere apologies.
Thats an old one, Robert. Didnt you post this once before? (perhaps another blogger did…)
Certainly not I. I’d definitely remember this one.
As I sleep tonight I wish (pray)please let them be Americans.
PS> Dear Rob it is lot to ask for… but some silver lining.
Alas all shall be lost..
They must have been for some time. They hit so many buttons.
oh my goodness!!!!!!!!! soju mama that will fry my rice LOL
Offensive, and yet the complete opposite of funny. They failed in every way.
Pretty good video.
I loved it. Great recruiting video for future English teachers.
Robert, you are too worried. The girls look like country trashes. As long as they don’t pretend to be college coeds, it is OK. And, there are a white chick and Korean dudes in the video too.
Very integrated group. No exploitation. Everybody having fun.
I hope this video make into M-TV. Korea will be known as a country of beautiful Soju Mamas, as some lucky GIs have known for several decades.
It *might* be offensive to the adjumas who were washing the vegetables to edit them into such a video without their consent and I wonder if these guys had signed releases from the adjumas to use their likeness in their animal house-style video before posting this on the internet. I wonder what a motivated lawyer could do with this as well.
They were only one verse about shitty hagwons and fronting GIs away from total truth.
Yeah, this one has been floating around for a bit now. It’s utterly disgusting and typical of the mojority of expats over there. I’m sure you can hear this being sung in Gecko’s or Seoul Pub…. Who knows, maybe they’ll get a Saturday night spot at Nana’s. Blah….
Very integrated group. No exploitation. Everybody having fun.
Yeah, seemed relatively harmless too me…except for it being totally cheesy/dorky. You’re right about the country trash look too, hahahaha…
Dude, that was awesome. I personally loved the scene with the guy puking in the gutter and everyone huddled around him…. including the guys with guitars!!
But look at the comments on the video.. Not like I had any high expectations of the general YouTube audience anyways though.
Only thing I think they are really guilty of is poor musicianship. I can’t find anything too offensive about it. First time I have really agreed with Baduk, minus the ‘country trashes’ comment. R. Elgin, honestly, do you think Korean camera crews get releases when they go around making those gag-reel shows in the third world that take the mickey out of the natives? Not likely and western standards of ethics really don’t apply here, especially not for something that is just a silly gag on youtube.
A motivated lawyer could probably do… not a whole lot. I suppose it depends on what sorts of laws South Korea has concerning the use of someone’s image in a video, but considering the rather regular use of similar images (things like people walking down the street, people sitting around, etc…) in Korean broadcast media, I’m guessing this sort of thing is typically considered a-ok. I suppose if they didn’t sign releases and somehow this video makes its producers millions of dollars, they could sue for a piece of that, but somehow I don’t see that happening.
I get my Soju Mama to translate my bills too.
haha comedy gold: I have to concur with the folk that thought this was harmless fun, the music was not exactly revolutionary (nor particularly well played/produced) but I don’t think that was the point.
I thought it was a funny video.
Not saying the ubiquitous ‘netizens’ won’t get their collective anti-social panties in a bunch - just that I won’t really appreciate ther point of view when they do :).
peace.
I agree - harmless fun. Would have been better had the gotten the older ajumas making kimchi to dance around a little, maybe take a swig of soju.
Did one of those guys have a maple leave pin on?
The scariest part of the whole video was the girl with the sweater around her neck. Who still does that?
I demand an immediate demonstration in front of the US Embassy, a formal apology from Bushie and the girls’ hand phone numbers!
Too bad. These guys left out “dog meat” parody.
I think the guy is puking, not because of his over-drinking, but because he found out what he just ate.
An image of dead dog with “a real dog was harmed (actually killed) while making this video” caption would have been a hit.
I think there is nothing wrong with eating a dog, even though I have not had the pleasure.
A dog is smaller than a cow. It is a smaller sin to eat a dog, if it is sin at all.
You think it is more acceptable to American public if the dogmeat was all meshed into a round shape like a hamberger patty? Dogberger anyone?
I, too, enjoyed this video.
There is a sequel, “Naver Girl”, in the works. The video will feature the following:
* Girls “studying” at Starbucks and taking pictures of themselves for an hour.
* Girls wearing “Von Dutch” caps in their hagwon classes.
* Girls ascending subway stairs and reaching back to press down on their skirts to prevent the “subway wind” from revealing anything.
* Girls wearing boleros.
It will be shot in 강남, 신촌, 홍대, 이화, 숙명, 등. No release forms will be signed, distributed, or considered.
Baduk, are you … arguing … with yourself?
And Baduk, I heard those girls aren’t even really Korean. But the 아저씨 are the genuine articles.
I don’t think there will be any controversy with this one. The presence of a Korean man makes it all good.
baduk from United States Says:
July 4th, 2006 at 1:30 am
“Pretty good video.
Robert, you are too worried. The girls look like country trashes. As long as they don’t pretend to be college coeds, it is OK. And, there are a white chick and Korean dudes in the video too.
Very integrated group. No exploitation. Everybody having fun.”
Well said. What’s the big fuss?
well, except for the girls being “country trashes”. Shouldn’t matter if the girls are a little bit country, or a little bit rock n’ roll.
I think you might be onto something. After all, it can’t be more disgusting than hot dogs and Chicken McNuggets… or the Krispy Kreme hamburger, for that matter. Man, Americans eat some weird shit.
Bad music! I would imagine someone is going to take offense. Corny stuff.
Mook,
I meant “country trash” to be “the bottom of the barrel”. As long as girls look like “rejected potatoes” than it is much easier for Korean males to tolerate the video.
However, if quality Korean girls party with white dudes, then overnight candlelight vigil may erupt. Korean men get jealous. “These foreign devils are taking our women”!!!
But if the girls look like a “two-bit hooker”, then no problem. It works the other way as well. If a plain-looking white girl kisses a Korean dude, then many GIs will say “she found a match”. However, if a sexy girl kisses a Korean, these GIs will get mad. They will say, “Ching-Chong-Chang, short dick”!
Women are natural resources of a nation. Nobody wants to see “foreigners” enjoying crem-de-la-crem. If “foreigners” partake a low-grade stuff, that is tolerated.
What’s so bad about about this? This is classic rock’n roll. It hits all the stereotypes, makes fun of them all, and creates controversy, especialy here, the irony. Robert, I respect your view and decisions about editorial content, but are you really offended by this? If anything, this should be the new punk classic covered be every Korean band in Hongdae. Can you imagine a Korean punk band playing “Soju Mama”? How bout all the girls, being westerner girls, who can’t handle their alcohol, being those mamas? Would that make it more PC?
Baduk….
“Rejected potatoes”!
LOL. I love that phrase. I hope you don’t mind if I use it with my Korean friends.
This is a GREAT video. Reminds me of my weekends the first 2 years I lived in Korea. My soju mama never stops putting on the makeup too.
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