And in what must be the best news of the year, EDaily reports that Penthouse Media Group will be entering the Korean market.
There was much rejoicing.
Penthouse apparently signed a deal with Korea’s very own N’tree Media Group in September; detailed investment and cooperation plans will be released by the end of the year.
A word of warning, though — those looking forward to “hair nudes” or Sunny Leone — Aria Giovanni-esque lesbian videos (not even remotely work safe, see also here) shouldn’t hold their breath. Said Han Sang-eun, the VP of N’Tree Media, “We’ll merge Penthouse’s elegant adult entertainment business know-how, built up over 40 years of conducting various projects, with Korean values to establish a healthy and fun adult culture and take a dominant position in the rapidly growing Asian entertainment market.”
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HA!
I cannot wait to read the Forum letters.
The possibility of Penthouse coming to Korea has been floating around since my days in college, so I’m going to take this news with a grain of salt. Besides even if it does come, it will be heavily watered down to the point where it will be at the same level as the other men’s magazines here. So, I don’t mean to dampen the mood here, but as Robert said, don’t hold your breath.
Here is the first Forum letter:
As a college student, I have little time to surf online for sex, let alone learn how to do it, what with all the drinking games I have to learn and anti- protests that I have to attend.
However, I did find myself in a situation last weekend when I was alone with a junior female at the end of an MT weekend. She called me “오빠” and we drank soju from each other’s cups. Needless to say, I was hoping something would happen.
Not knowing how to lay a chick, I texted my senior. He promised to come right away and help. Well, to make a long story short, he arrived and banged the chick while I went outside for a smoke.
Later my friends asked me if I was angry. “He and I went to the same high school,” I said, “What could I do?”
‘A healthy and fun adult culture’?
Doesn’t the Korean market already have that? I mean, what’s going on up in Miari?
#4.
A typical Korean college boy in that situation would have gone for it, instead of calling his senior.
Now that I remember, one of my juniors complained bitterly that his junior didn’t call him before he banged a pretty freshman.
#4: That was funny. You showing up tonight?
#4
Hilarious!
But the more likely scenario is:
“Got her so drunk on soju, she was putty(sp?) in my
hands. She just couldn’t resist!”
Maybe because she was unconcious!
A common tactic for young locals in attempting to score is
attempting to get the girl so wasted that she can’t really
resist.
A long time ago, my girlfriend’s “friend” was trying to do this
to her right in front of me. He thought he could steal her away
by getting her loaded and, while continuing to order tequila shots,
starts in with his “powers of persuasion”. I said “That’s it!” and
took her right out of there. It took a while to convince her that
this dude was not really her friend.
Oh, and the guy was married with kids!
Yes, but I’ve apologized for that again and again. I was wrong — I’m sorry. Let it go.
Wedge,
No, I can’t make it tonight. I’ll be doing something illegal instead.
Best of luck.
Touche, Brendon!
Anyway, Penthouse is famous for being more explicit than Playboy. For example, spread eagle shots and soft-core action shots. However, it’s not as raunchy as say Hustler.
In Korea, where they can’t show beaver and they already have Playboy, what’s the point?
i think “healthy and fun adult culture” is the point. the nimrods responsible for this are thinking that G-rated Penthouse mags on the stands will steer people away from getting their porn on the net like real men do. i’d have to assume that in addition to shaving out all the beavers, the explicit cartoons would be absent as well. Penthouse (Korea) will look a lot like Maxim (Korea) except with boob pics.
as for the implications of “healthy and fun adult culture” actually means, that’s just a polite way of saying that what exists currently is really fucking perverted and abnormal.
Very good. But you forgot the textbook opening sentence: I always read these letters thinking they were made up, until one day…
“as for the implications of “healthy and fun adult culture” actually means, that’s just a polite way of saying that what exists currently is really fucking perverted and abnormal.”
Good point, foobat!
A clean-shaved cooch is all the rage nowadays with the younger generation. Does that get Penthouse around the “hair nudes” prohibition? If so, where do I subscribe?
What that’s, you say? There are “hair nudes” on teh Internets. For free!?
Penthouse in Korea? Wow, now that will be something to see (or not see as the case may be). I suspect that the most it will be is a collection of topless babes and a bunch of articles on how Korean guys can get Korean girls to put out. I agree that it will be interesting to see the Forum section.
Is that what them kids call hair? Ain’t nothing like the old days, where the French to any Eastern European female would make even a Korean man look like kid (hair wise..)
You know porno magazine business does not need special technology or any kind of special good will. It borrows only name, and for this it gets high priced license from western foreign companies. Starbusks, Hooters, Outback, T.G.I. Bibs, Baskin Roinns, etc. Numberless.
Korean son of ritch sucks America. Or it seems that they enjoy sucking America, for it pays. That is, Korean sons of ritch study in America with fabulously high school fees and donation to the higher education institutions in America and proudly return to Korea only to do these no-pain-but-huge-gain businesses.
(I don’t check out who did it, but it’ll be one of them as the prior cases.)
And affected common Koreans love America, too. One-sided love. Yesp, Korea loves America so much, It drives out law education in undergraduate course and starts law school as a graduate course.
Koreans shoudn’t learn law in undergraduate universities.
Before this turmoil, Korea sucked Germany and Japan. Constituion star professor once said, ‘어찌할 수 없는 향수에 슬픈 모가지를 하고’, “My scholarship birthplace, Germany” at an interview. Gosh.
I hesitate to say this, but all these problems arise from small-dick complex of Korean males. My hope that Korea will restore its self-esteem is innately impossible to be achieved. Operation by American like this, http://www.rjkoehler.com/2007/.....er-at-fss/ ? Can’t be.
But, I agree there’s some respectable Americans, like the Nierings and http://mrkai.wordpress.com/200.....el-shuman/ .
Somebody call the house translator!
WTH was #19 smoking? It smells like KJI droppings… ¡y eso apenas correcto!
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[...] Friday, October 26, 2007Toil in deariness, thou Expat, Korea weeps at your humor; the other expats are laughing too hard to “work”. Anything to strife the next 138 days, 21 hours, and 13 minutes of this trite job where I “teach” when I am not chuckling after reading the snide remarks of crackers who’ve chewed through countless moments of Korean charm: As a college student, I have little time to surf online for sex, let alone learn how to do it, what with all the drinking games I have to learn and anti-protests that I have to attend. However, I did find myself in a situation last weekend when I was alone with a junior female at the end of an MT weekend. She called me “오빠” and we drank soju from each other’s cups. Needless to say, I was hoping something would happen. Not knowing how to lay a chick, I texted my senior. He promised to come right away and help. Well, to make a long story short, he arrived and banged the chick while I went outside for a smoke. Later my friends asked me if I was angry. “He and I went to the same high school,” I said, “What could I do?” —via The Marmot’s Hole [...]