To prove he’s more influential than Rain, Stephen Colbert does his own Korean music video [Comedy Central]. Painful. Very painful. At the same time, it does show Korea’s rising cultural profile—just a couple a years ago, no one would be making jokes like this (HT to Tony)
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Hot Lips and Hawkeye?!
Call the ambassador.
This just shows that the list is a joke.
Colbert: “I’ve battled this guy on the Korean pop charts for years . . .
:o)
LOL. That was good.
#4 cm, I second that.
Hopefully, the die hard Rain fans won’t get their hands on the Steve Colbert video, because they will certainly do some things that will ruin all the fun.
“I’m gonna be all over you like an egg on a bowl of bibimbap”
LOL
That is hella funny.
Koehler: do you mean “painful like a Korean R&B video?” That clip had me in tears.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t the picture of “Rain” actually Lee Jun-ki?
That’s what my daughter says too. I know it’s not Rain — his slightly retarded-looking visage is unmistakable to me — but have no idea who it is.
I sense a lawsuit coming…
We can eat some Kim Che… Wait for the “backlash”
ROFL! That has got to be the most hilarious music video I’ve ever seen. “Singing in Korean”, heh!
I wonder if they deliberately used a picture of the wrong person to add insult to injury…
I can see people who’s not familiar with Colbert Report and its structure be offended by it. As a hardcore Colbert fan… LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ouch, but dang that was good!!!!!!!!!!!
I don’t care much for his show, but that was hilarious, can’t deny it.
“Get into my Hyundai…We can eat some kimchi”.
LOL.
Best Korean pop video I’ve ever seen.
LOL “What else is Korean?”
His Korean pronunciation is better than mine
And the joke is missed.
Go get him, thin-skinned VANKers.
The reporter missed the joke, but netizens got it. They all chided the reporter for being thin-skinned about the comedy skit.
Sonagi,
Not “all” the netizens chided the reporter. Read deeper.
That picture is 비. It’s just not a very good picture.
Pissing off Koreans is always funny.
I always thought my singing room pronunciation was much better than my everyday butchery of the language. Colbert seems to bear this out. His spoken Korean sounded a little bit like Chinese to me.
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