A couple of our favorite sports dailies (OK, Yonhap ain’t a sports paper) have picked up on half-honkie, half-Korean actress Moon Bloodgood, who will be appearing in the ABC series “Day Break.”
The Chosun Ilbo, of course, regales us with tales of her hardworking mother (Korean version—along the a cute pic and a first paragraph reference that’s she’ll be playing the girlfriend of a black guy—here).
Oh, nice flag:
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First Moon Unit Zappa, now her. WTF? Your link says she’s Dutch, Irish, Korean and Native American — insert multiple stereotypes here — and she probably has a good career ahead in Hollywood as the token “ethnic” girl.
I wonder what was going through the reporter’s mind when he/she wrote that she plays the girlfriend of a black guy.
I haven’t seen the show, so I hope it was mentioned because it’s relevant to the storyline in one way or another.
So, the show is a TV version of the movie “Groundhog’s Day” (with Bill Murray - it ROCKED!)?
I dunno. It’s “been done.”
I just want to know how the Chosun can say she is 30 years old and then in the next paragraph say she was born in 1973.
Must be that great math education they get here.
Wow…the KJ-style gyopos of the world are going to have a field day with this, and hopefully the Metropoliticians will be right there to return fire.
Look for KBS2 to broadcast “Day Break” after they finish broadcasting “Lost Season 2″
I note that they’ve picked up “Grey’s Anatomy” now too, despite near-universal Korean opinion that Sandra Oh is too ugly to be an actress.
Yeah, but the Korean press is idolizing her after she won the Emmy for Best Supporting Actress.
Excuse me, my mistake, the Golden Globe
Holy recessive genes Batman! I would never have guess that she was half Korean.
What flag?
Sandra Oh is an eye sore. I guess she reinforces the some Americans’ bias that Korean women are ugly. Get her off the air.
Average Korean women are better looking than her.
Magaret Cho used to be OK when she played “All American Girl” but she drank too much after she got allegedly “raped” by a TV executive. I think she just became Azumma and let herself go.
We need beautiful Korean girls to appear in Hollywood movies and TV shows. This will mesmerize American youth. They will poo-poo white beauties and go for exotic Korean beauties. And, Korean wave can sweep movies, music and athletics.
Just wait and see. Koreans are coming!
Q.E.D.
You lost me here.
What do you think of Grace Park and Yunjin Kim?
If I want a poster pin-up girl, I’ll buy a poster. When I watch fictional programs, I like people who can actually act.
If you hire nothing but pretty mannequins, you’ll get, well, Korean TV programs. And last I checked, the chubby, dorky Grissom has not hurt CSI’s ratings.
Whoa, crazy cat, didn’t you just say all the Koreans are doomed to nuclear destruction, Chinese conquest, and North Korean gulags.
So these Koreans who are coming, are they boat people?
Dokdo Riders rule man!
Is Sandra Oh ugly?
Yeah, she is ugly as sin. If someone were to give me a truckload of Sandra Ohs as my concubines, I will decline.
A truckload of Yunjin Kims I will gladly accept. The same goes to Hoyri, Yujin, Um jeongHwa…
so you lthink heavy(excuse me “big boned”) hideous and obnoxious is “OK”?
..though I will admit, that sitcom title was right on the money…
Sandra Oh is so foul-mouthed it’s a turn-off. When she gives interviews, it’s f-this and f-that.
Baduk:
Um JeongHwa has had so much plastic surgery she’s starting to look really weird.
Yeah, but until the FTA is completed, do you know what the taxes would be like on a truckload of Yunjin Kims? I mean, I’m not exactly sure what the tarriffs are like on plastics these days, but they’ve got to be fairly high.
Is Sandra Oh ugly?
It’s relative. She’s not uglier than say…Soon Yi-Previn. But next to say…Rosanne Barr, she’s eminently do-able.
Many of my fellow gyopo peers, males and females alike, have some misgivings about Sandra Oh, not to mention head-scratchingly puzzled at how a chick with such a unphotogenically busted face and an average acting ability can manage to snag roles in Hollywood movies and prime-time TV. To me, it’s supremely obvious. Ever since her coming-out in the indie film Double Happiness, a story about a young Asian-American woman going through some “identity crisis” and a rebellious phase against her stereotypically overbearing Asian mother (the usual basic Asian-American chick flick cliche formula), she discovered that there’s this thing called “Asian fetish”, which is rampant in the American entertainment-media complex as well, so she, like so many no-name, struggling, waitress-by-day, auditioning-at-night, actresses striving for that big break, got where she is right now by bedding with agents, directors, and producers. That’s how “networking” works in the entertainment business. If you’re an Asian chick, that’s a plus that more than makes up for certain fuglyness.
So yes, Sandra Oh is a role model of sorts, giving all kinds of hope to young Asian-American women with acting ambitions everywhere that despite being ugly, that, yes, they too can have a decent shot at stardom. Only in America, Land of Opportunity!
Well…I do not need a truckload of them..I will eagerly accept and just need one of them for a date.
Bluejives, this shows how much you know about Sandra Oh.
Born to Korean parents in the Ottawa suburb of Nepean, Ontario, CANADA. Her father and mother, who were married in Seoul, South Korea, both attended graduate school at the University of Toronto. She began her career as a ballet dancer and eventually studied drama at the National Theatre School in Montreal. She then starred in a London (Ontario) stage production of David Mamet’s “Oleanna” and appeared as the title character in the Canadian television production The Diary of Evelyn Lau (1993) (TV), beating out over 1,000 applicants. Her list of awards includes the FIPA d’Or for Best Actress at the 1994 Festival International de Programmes Audiovisuels at Cannes, France, two Genie Awards (the Canadian Oscar), a Cable Ace Award, a Theatre World Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award. In 2003, she married writer-director Alexander Payne and their first film together was the Oscar-winning Sideways (2004).
Sideways was hardly her “coming out” and she seems to have worked and studied pretty hard to get where she is today.
I guess she’ll have to start wearing her Canada backpack around if you and the Chosun Ilbo are ever to understand that she’s Korean Canadian, not Korean American.
The american film and tv landscape isn’t populated only by pretty, talentless people. That’s Korea.
Even that guy from “The Commish” won an Emmy, and he’s no looker.
Imagine, rising to the top without having to butcher your face and mounting every sojo stained casting couch around. It can be done. Just not here.
I’m sure if Jesus himself appeared floating above the Cheonggyecheon in the form of an average looking Korean, the local headlines would read “Despite his small eyes and wide nose…”
I guess she’ll have to start wearing her Canada backpack around if you and the Chosun Ilbo are ever to understand that she’s Korean Canadian, not Korean American.
I understand that Canucks are somewhat sensitive about being mistaken for American, despite the fact that truckloads of Canadian entertainers have a demonstrated tendency border-hop towards the direction of less snow for better opportunities in Ho-wood. But the last time I checked on a map, Canada does sit somewhere on a land mass called North America, which in turn is part of the overall Americas, and besides, Canadiens are effectively Americans anyways, they just happen to have a funny accent and enjoy universal healthcare (which we dont), so if one is not a Canadian, one does not really give a crap about that.
Imagine, rising to the top without having to butcher your face and mounting every sojo stained casting couch around. It can be done. Just not here.
Well, what can I say? I guess Koreans are realists. In America, there is a thriving industry in self-deception. It goes by different names: self-help books, Oprah, psychiatry, self-esteem boost motivational seminars, you get the drift. Retarded kids are encouraged to think they’re smart, when they’re not. Poor people of all sorts are encouraged to think that they too have what it takes to start their own business making hundreds of thousands of dollars, they just need to make a little mental “paradigm shift”. This is also where all the catchy, truth-warping phrases come from: like, blue is the new black, fat is the new skinny, 30s is the new 20s, 20s is the new teens, teens is the new ones, ones is the new zeros, etc.
In Korea, fat is still fat, 30s is still 30s, skinny is skinny, beautiful is still beautiful and ugly is ugly.
Now art reflects life and vice versa, no? No one forces many thousand of South Korean women to butcher their faces. They willingly shell out big money to have those stupid double-eyelid surgeries done and whatever, in order to conform to what the media/fashion people/magazines/society says is beautiful. It’s a huge industry. It’s so bad that even some men are doing it also. Media is only offering a reflection of society. You cant really blame this on male privilege because legions of women are consciously choosing to do it to themselves and thereby reinforcing a larger, darwinian vicious cycle. If thousands of SK women woke up one day and said, “hey! I’m tired of all this bullshit. Why the hell should I…”, then it can all be different. But Korean women make poor feminists and the average Korean woman is not much of an independent thinker anyhow, by Western standards anyway, so the lemmings do what they will.
Does anyone really believe that Hollywood actors/actresses don’t visit the doctors office for little nips and tucks? If you believe that, I got a bridge over San Francisco that I can sell you.
Every day brings a new realm of human endeavor in which bluejives is FULL OF SHIT about but not shy about sharing “wisdom”: North Korea, neocons, Hollywood, American society…
He could have just conceded that, OK, Sandra Oh might indeed have gotten where she is by dint of talent, in the absence of the glamor and looks we conventionally associate with entertainment success. Instead, we get yellow fever fetishes (for ugly women, no less), pointless crap about Oprah and self-help….
With all due respect, what may be therapeutic to bluejives looks a hell of a lot like masturbatory trolling to me.
With all due respect, Slim, I realize that I may be wrong or maybe I’m not. But just because certain things do not comfortably sit well with your own acceptable worldview does not necessarily mean it’s wrong, just different. I say a lot of controversial things, yes. The world is a funny place. The difference between me and a polite person is that I’m more than willing to openly discuss taboos, upturn sacred cows, and expose things that others are afraid to touch.
I also know that when a dissenting voice has to rely more on knee-jerk ad hominem smear (such as you) rather than actually offering a counterpoint backed by substantial reasoning, informed opinion, and generally acknowledged observation, then I know that whatever I said is valid because it’s touching some raw nerves and only truth can do that.
“she married writer-director Alexander Payne and their first film together was the Oscar-winning Sideways (2004)”
That explains it. I was watching the movie and wondering how she got the role that is plainly written for a white female. Sandra Oh can act but the role was not her.
“They willingly shell out big money to have those stupid double-eyelid surgeries done and whatever”
Even the president of Korea, pres. Rho, got the surgery with a flimsy excuse that his eyelids were drooping. The funny thing was that his wife got the surgery at the same time. She said, “I will look out of place when only my hubby has a double eyelid (and look good)”. This shows where she is at, and blows her hubby’s excuse right out of water.
Pres. Rho will be remembered as the president who got the cometic surgery in the office while screwing up everything a president was supposed to do.
everybody know pure thin light-skin good-manner korea lady never go round in lousy old car with white blond-hair fail actor and his jew-looking balding pork-bellied friend. everybody know dat!
Is it just me, or does Moon Bloodgood look like a different person in every picture you’ve linked? On thing for sure, she looks an awful lot better with makeup and dark hair than without any make up with blonde hair.
I also know that when a dissenting voice has to rely more on knee-jerk ad hominem smear (such as you) rather than actually offering a counterpoint backed by substantial reasoning, informed opinion, and generally acknowledged observation, then I know that whatever I said is valid because it’s touching some raw nerves and only truth can do that.
You spew off-topic gibberish and insults and demand ” substantial reasoning, informed opinion, and generally acknowledged observation”? You are worse than I give you credit for.
Sorry Baduk….but when the Koreans get here, they’ll find the Filipinos have already taken over. Every other young “ethnic” artist or actress that comes out seems to be half or one-fourth Filipino.
One of them already got to me…
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