Comments on: Run DMZ

By: boshintang

boshintang — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 01:37:41 +0000

So you’re saying, pull America out and Korea goes back in time 2 decades?

By: bulgasari

bulgasari — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 05:20:12 +0000

Isn’t this the movie studio set that was used in JSA?

I assumed so - it would be well beyond the budget of some b-boys to build a set like that of their own…

By: Uri Onara

Uri Onara — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 22:55:57 +0000

Did anyone get a glimpse of the Southern side’s facilities? Not an entirely accurate set up. But the mock border buildings are pretty convincing. Isn’t this the movie studio set that was used in JSA?

By: Sambek_ZX

Sambek_ZX — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 15:02:49 +0000

I love Drifterz videos.

By: bulgasari

bulgasari — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 12:21:47 +0000

mateomiguel:

The video you speak of is here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QM1avYwLC6I

Some of the looks on the North Korean audience’s faces are well worth the psychic toll listening to Shinhwa for 3 minutes will take.

That, at least, could be one of the benefits for South Korean pop culture if reunification comes: North Koreans who haven’t been brainwashed by decades of corporate tv saying in droves, “What is this utter shit you’re listening to?”

By: Brendon Carr

Brendon Carr — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 11:54:25 +0000

Breakdancing is big in Asia these days.

One night last year I was down in a Kangnam “Sexy Bar” (one of these places where the serving girls work in their underwear in order to make the bottle of whiskey worth W150,000) and the entertainment at 11:00 was a team of very athletic breakdancers. It seemed to befuddle the ajoshis in the bar, but wow, what a performance. I left shortly thereafter, which is too bad because I later heard they had some kind of stripper come in. Still, to top those b-boys she would have had to put on one heck of a show.

In Macau last March for a conference (it’s a really nice town, actually — like Hong Kong but quiet) I stumbled across some Chinese b-boys breaking it out in some kind of dance-off at the community center. Not a public performance per se, just showing off for each other and for the surprisingly few girls who had turned out.

By: iwshim

iwshim — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 11:12:32 +0000

Brilliant! I always joked to my wife (who loves Gambler of B-boy fame) that they would be able to provide a special talent to ROK forces. Gambler is an international force but they like other Korean talents will have to joint the army. As the affection was not shared for Gambler I would prefer they were involved in some kind of mine clearing unit (watch the video they would be perfect) I would tap dance through a sieve cleared by these Rodeo Clowns. If anyone tried this at the DMZ I am sure that be there next posting

By: otoritakeo

otoritakeo — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 11:05:06 +0000

LOL

By: relayer77

relayer77 — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 10:41:44 +0000

That was great. But does it please the Dear Leader??

By: mateomiguel

mateomiguel — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 09:13:30 +0000

has anyone ever seen the video of a South Korean boy band performing in Pyongyang to a crowd of entirely silent, mystified comrades? There was no clapping, no singing, no movement at all.

I wish this could happen, but North Koreans definitely got no play.