As you’ve no doubt noticed, I’ve had the Byuntees banner up at the top of Ye Olde Blog for the last month.
Well, their website is finally up, and has been duly linked!
Byuntees is a T-shirt company producing clever hangeul T-shirts aimed at you, the barbarian or barbarian sympathizer. From their website:
Byuntees, a play on words of Byuntae (meaning Pervert) and Tees (meaning t-shirt) is a simply shirt company that tries its hardest to be funny without being overly vulgar.
The point of a good t-shirt is one that gets you noticed and that is exactly what Byuntees shirts do, get you noticed in a positivly rather than negatively through vulgarity.
The shirts we use are of the highest quality and are 100% cotton. One main variation we have over our competitors is our wide variety of colors and the details that go into our prints.
Our shirts are not photo-shopped words slapped onto cotton. Lots of time and effort is put into our shirts. Yes, some shirts are more expensive than our competitors, but how many of their shirts have the quality and quantity of colors in their pictures.
All seriousness aside, it is a hoot when you are riding on the subway with a Byuntees shirt on and the two girls across from you are giggling at your Tee. What better time to practice your pathetic Korean and seal the deal on a date for tonight!
Quality T-shirts that’ll get you laid. Can’t ask for more, can you?
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These shirts will just confirm every negative stereotype Koreans have about Westerners.
I like the Soju Ramyon shirt. The rest, blah.
cute slogans, but poooooorly designed. if you can make a macaroni picture frame, you’re in the same league as these ‘designers’.
“Lots of time and effort is put into our shirts.”
haha. you’ve gotta be kidding me. lots of time if it’s their first day with photoshop. or a computer.
Byuntees, a play on words of Byuntae (meaning Pervert) and Tees (meaning t-shirt) is a simply shirt company that tries its hardest to be funny without being overly vulgar.
The name and the goal seem incompatible.
“I’m bored, let’s kiss” and “I’m with stupid” are not all that funny even in English and will leave Korean speakers scratching their head (and not because they are dumb) or getting offended. I agree with FD.
I’m glad the “sure beats bundaegi” banner ad is gone. That connection (byuntee and bundegi is sophomoric. The owner sounds like he’s new to the country or new to the language.
It’s FUBU for ESL work staff in the original meaning: for us, by us.
Too clever by half. I wasn’t ever going to say anything but since you started a post about it I thought it was OK.
There. Drunk Ajjeosi has put in his two cents.
Is that Brendon Carr in the “free delivery” picture?
http://www.rjkoehler.com/2008/.....ent-198165
Wow. Someone is putting their hard-earned basket weaving degree to use here. I wish I could make some money selling lame shirts to fools with no game also.
Byuntees is a lame pun, the shirt slogans all suck, and the masthead screws up my ability to refresh the MH page, sending me to the byuntee site.
can’t log in or see a damn thing
..and now the marmot’s hole banner links me to byuntees
This is the link to the guy who might be Brendon (#5).
http://www.byuntees.com/media/delivery.jpg
U-81, I doubt it.
Eyes are too big… nose too small… shirt screams white salary man who bought it off the street, not lawyer who likes to mention that he makes a six fig income.
Hey, I’m always glad to see foreigners getting of their asses and DOING something constructive. However, I have a bad feeling that the proprietors here are going to learn a very harsh lesson in the perils of capitalism.
Still, good luck to the folks at Byuntees. HWAITING!
Hey… let’s all be supportive here y’all.
Stuff like byuntees probably helps Rob justify time spent on this site to Mrs. Koehler.
Oh sorry the for the double post, but I’ve always wanted to say this:
Why is it that if a foreigner wants a shirt with lovely Hanguel script on it, the best place to find it is foreigner-run websites? For people with immense pride in their alphabet, Koreans don’t seem to like wearing it. The only Korean made clothing I’ve ever seen with Hanguel have the name of either a university or a dojan on them (plus the seasonal “Dokdo,” of course).
Does the KTO know that foreigners would buy tasteful Hanguel apparel? Have they just not thought of that?
“Quality T-shirts that’ll get you laid. Can’t ask for more, can you?”
Yes I can freak’in ask for more!
In this economic climate, how about a T-shirt that will help someone get a job! You gotta eat before you rumble…
Granfalloon,
I think it’s similar to what Michael Breen said about how Koreans treat their historical buildings. Instead of putting huge flood lights on them for all foreigners to see, they put them in the most dimly lit places.
I think Koreans have a love/hate relationship with their culture. Openly they extoll it as the best thing since sliced bread, but inwardly they are very insecure about it. Koreans probably don’t think foreigners care about such things that appear mundane to them.
Apparently, Dolce and Gabbana thinks hangul is alrite (at least back in 2005)…
I could be wrong, but that sounds like like Shelton’s work.
All seriousness aside, it is a hoot when you are riding on the subway with a Byuntees shirt on and the two girls across from you are giggling at your Tee. What better time to practice your pathetic Korean and seal the deal on a date for tonight!
I could be wrong, but that sounds like Shelton’s work.
Ouch! Nose too small?! Good Lord. And I don’t confirm earnings figures anywhere. All I can ever say is that I am comfortable, and in the larger scheme of things blessed by good fortune. I’m rich, like Joe the Plumber.
Shirts from Brooks Brothers. The street vendors don’t have my size.
Brendon,
I remember you fretting someplace about the AMT tax. Only ppl making six figs worry about the AMT tax.
Well, it is possible that someone concerned with general concepts of fairness would be concerned with the Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT), you know. Not all political stands are entirely self-interested. I’m concerned about the soaring cost of housing for regular Korean folks, even though I’ve got mine already. I’m in favor of letting gay folks get married, even though I’m not a homosexual myself. Anyway, with the Korean won as it is, I’m a millionaire many times over… A won millionaire, with plebeian tastes suited for a Dollar Menunaire.
Puah!
You just don’t want your plebeian expat friends hitting you up for cash when you go to lunch with them you cheap bastard!..
No way that could be Mr. Carr, if it were he’d be issuing forth a Dick Cheney-esque “bah”, telling you the fundamentals of the economy were sound and assuring you that Mrs Palin has all her cows in the top paddock. Aside from that, he’d doubtless eschew anything that had the smell of desperate English teacher types.
And when all is said and done, Byuntees is a poor imitator. This has been done before, using real humour.
http://www.baboshirts.com/Korea/Shop/Tshirts.html
#23,
Real humor? LOL
#7, #9 — Is the whole banner actually linking to Byuntee’s? My banner image (the dancheong colored thing) still links home.
I’m looking at in IE7 now, and the whole banner (yours plus the ad) links to byuntees-dot-com.
My other t-shirt is a cool Japanese t-shirt.
Anyway, can’t wait for the bumper stickers.
“Anyway, can’t wait for the bumper stickers.”
Ummm… how many expats own cars?
“Ummm… how many expats own cars?”
Many.
Remember, not all expats are ESL types. Every contractor I have ever known in Korea either owns a car (or 2) and/or has a company car. Add in the new lax rules for GIs stationed over here, and we will see even MORE foreignors with their own cars.
FYI – the new “lax rules” I am refering to is that basically ANY military types can have a vehicle now. Before it was very limited to command sponsored types or those of considerable rank/need.
“Ummm… how many expats own cars?”
About 25% of the expats that I know.
Link issue fixed.
I’d buy one.
No wait. I wouldn’t.
Lame lame lame.
It is a hoot when you are riding on the subway with a Byuntees shirt on and the two girls across from you are thinking “i’d never buy a shirt that ridiculous”.
Has byuntees finally gone broke?
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