The Segye Ilbo reports that SBS won’t play Tei’s latest music video, starring superfly Australian model Jessica Gomes.
KBS and MBC, meanwhile, gave the video an “Ages 15 and Up” rating.
Tei’s people were perplexed — it’s not like Jessica gets totally naked, they said. They plan to run the video as is on cable and send an edited version to the broadcast stations.
UPDATE: Cute email from a friend of mine:
So why can’t you cover Jessica Gomes like you did Myeongdong Cathedral? She has a great high-vaulted Apse. And her ambulatory looks pretty good, too.
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Jessica Gomes… [Homer Simpson-like drooling] Mmmmmmm…
I’m sorry, I don’t get it. Here is an adult supposedly acting no less suggestively than I Hyo Ri when from an early age girls are encouraged to act flirtatiously and suggestively. I still do not understand how it is acceptable to encourage prepubescent Korean girls on shows like “Star Search” (a show I usually enjoy) to dance suggestively to songs like “Omana” which is pretty clearly written from the perspective of a Salon hostess.
I don’t condemn Asian cultures for having such a pervasive sex industry and extramarital sex. I just find it odd that a thing like this would be considered too suggestive when the apparant sexualization of children is looked upon as something “cute”.
Might just be a publicity stunt…Then again…Ten years ago, someone came up with the bright idea of trying to prevent boy bands from wearing sunglasses on TV by fear that it would encourage juvenile delinquency.
“I don’t condemn Asian cultures for having such a pervasive sex industry and extramarital sex.”
Mizar. It’s lines like that that have people thinking that you are faking being Korean. It’s a little odd that you refer to “Asian cultures” in the third person.
Anyway. Asians view sexuality differently than Westerners. Overt sexuality in an open setting is frowned upon but subtle sexuality is okay. Something to do with being not that far removed from an agrarian society and Confucian norms I suppose. Westerners were just as prudish 50 to 70 years ago.
Case in point. Back when I went to Korean clubs in L.A. frequently a couple years ago, there was this girl wearing a skin tight black spandex outfit and high heels that left very little for the imagination out on the dance floor and she really didn’t attract much attention. I mean that girl really made that outfit work for her but she really didn’t attract a lot of attention. However, when bare back halter tops were in fashion (are they still in fashion?) a Korean girl wouldn’t be caught dead in one in a Korean club but would happily wear it to an American club. She knows that she would get a lot of disapproving glances if she wore it to a Korean club.
In my bi-Western eyes, the spandex outfit was in some respects MORE revealing that the halter top, but for Asians its a matter of revealing skin. The outline of the body is okay, but showing skin is not.
So Hyori may be moving her body like a stripper in a typical Korean commercial, but she’s NOT doing it in a bikini and that makes all the difference.
The skin thing has changed considerably. Today, young Korean girls generally show more skin than Western women – bare midrifs, short skirts – the exception is low-cut clothes. I can remember a time when a man could not go out in public with a tank top, and women would not show their bare feet.
I understand it can be argued that girls can wear these outfits as they are not overtly sexual – as long as innocence is projected rather than wanton sexual advances.
What I am specifically questioning is the apparant sexualization of pre-pubescent girls.
LOL. He’s confusing other Asian countries with Korean ones.
Can’t go out with a wife beater?
Ha, ha ha. I can tell you plenty who went to the dambae gagae that way.
You’re exposed.
ssangnom
wjk,
Memory is a little blurry here, but wasn’t it your family who was originally from Cheolla-do?
I might have known! A Cheolla Do sangnom by his own admission…
Take it from a Kyeong San Do mundungi…
whoa, let’s not go down this road here folks. I’m a proud Jeollado man and I don’t take kindly to affronts against my region.
I’ll roll up my sleeves while wjk removes his wife beater…
Just evening up the odds TK.
my father and his father and his father and his father and his father is
from Choongchungdo.
you can re-check, triple check that one for consistency.
go ahead.
My mother is from Choongchung namdo.
My mother’s from Levittown.
Marmot’s Law is definitely playing out here.
Ok hold on. I recall somebody saying to me that Mizar5 was definitely a fake gyopo, and now Wangkon says he isn’t but people think they are, and Mizar5 says like he has Gyeongsang-do roots (but can’t spell it in romanization).
What is the reality here?
Your family can be from Choongchung-do, but I’m afraid wjk is from Mungchung-do.
What is the reality here?
The reality is that Mizar5 is about as “Kyeong San Do mundungi” as I am.
My mother really is from Levittown, though.
I find this article funny when I remember what SBS was like when they just started out, they once showed nude photobook pics of a Japanese model at the end of a news program. Everything was exposed except for her fur. Luckily I was sick that day and didn’t go to school. Looks like SBS has lost it’s way over the years, they should return to their original mindset and “show more naked babes!”
I never said that he wasn’t a fake gyopo. I am actually neutral on the subject. The scenario I brought up about him possibility being an adoptee is unlikely, but not impossible.
Ooh… called out!
Actually, Mizar’s romanization skills are about consistent with someone who left Korea around third grade or so. Mixing up ㅇ 받침 (e.g. 상 and 산) is a classic mistake by gyopo children learning Korean. But then again, it’s a classic mistake by any non-Korean studied Korean.
studying*. I had a few beer tonight.
TK, no worries. The ‘hole is best enjoyed after pounding a few brews.
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Sad commentary! We begin with the delicious Miss Gomes and end the thread worrying about what province you are from. I have been warned that you can’t trust the Jeollanam-do province people.
“I’m a proud Jeollado man and I don’t take kindly to affronts against my region.”
I love the place. My father-in-law is from there… I visit from time to time. Lots of very nice and laid back people (never seen as many jaywalkers as when I drive in Kwangju, though. It was quite unnerving at first).
From the perspective of Kyeong Sang Do-ers (the comments about my typo were quite fun), there is plenty of good food and drink to be had in Jeolla Do. My US background helped me put the rivalry between the regions in perspective. I view it as something that roughly parallels the North-South divide in the U.S.
It’s not as though there is mutual hatred, but there is lingering mistrust from past political and cultural distinctions. The regional distinctions notably manifest as left-right political differences. Left-wing Jeolla Do-ans remind me of those right-wing Southerners who fly Confederate flags while right-wing Kyeong Sang Do-ers remind me a bit of well-landed Yankee liberals.
I no longer thing you guys have 2 heads. In fact, politically, I often wonder if you guys have heads at all…
Alrighty then. Can I bother you for an elaboration?
Numerous examples of devisive politics abound. As I had friends hunkered down during the Kwangju massacre, I sympathized with their democratic stance and decried the violence against them. However, radicalism that grew out of this has been divisive. Witchhunts against ancient Japanese collaborators, the U.S. occupation, etc. seem regressive, much like Confederate flag flying.
Kyeong Sang Do, on the other hand, benefited disproportionally from Pak Cheong Hee, while Jeolla Do was largely ignored, which was also divisive and is reminiscent of Northern carpetbaggers in the Reconstruction era who became wealthy landowners and businessowners.
Mizar5, you got it in reverse order.
You’re just trying to lump people you don’t like in one group.
almost all of Korean liberal stuff took place under Kim Daejung and Noh Moohyun. Yuhsungboo, etc.
And, you’re not Korean.
Do me a favor. Shit, and eat it.
wjk: “Mizar5, you got it in reverse order.You’re just trying to lump people you don’t like in one group. almost all of Korean liberal stuff took place under Kim Daejung and Noh Moohyun. Yuhsungboo, etc.”
No I’m not, and, yes, I was alluding to those guys. How could you have missed that?
wjk:”And, you’re not Korean.”
You play into my hands so well, my little sock puppet.
Victor Hugo wrote: “Don’t say the lady came into the room, saw a mouse and screamed. Bring her in the room, bring out the mouse, make her scream.”
As Mizar, I do Hugo one better. I make my sock puppets actually jump up and down to prove my point about small-minded people who are desperate to reduce people to a race or nationality or some other strawman with a red herring tucked away in his pants – or, in your case, that would be an anchovie…
you still have it in reverse order.
furthermore, my gochu is 6 inches by tape measure, 6 inches wrapped around, 5.5 with a straight ruler.
that’s a decent gochu.
i think you’re just retarded.
ssangnom-ah.
This is getting ugly…
I wish I had administrative right in this thread…
I really did not need to know that. Damn IE at work that doesn’t have greasemonkey.
“that’s a decent gochu.”
Better keep it to yourself lest you get yourself arrested for decent exposure.
#35,
“ssangnom-ah.”
You really need to study Korean.
All this without pawi’s help. Amazing!
“Westerners were just as prudish 50 to 70 years ago.”
Prudish or in deep denial?
Alfred Kinsey’s first data, collected in the 1930′s, revealed that 85% of American men had engaged in premarital intercourse. According to his data, 37% of men had homosexual interaction, and that 10% had been exclusively homosexual during the last 4 years.
University of Sussex researchers collected similar data from British men and women in the 1940′s.
PS. Speaking of turning teen girls into sex objects…You’d have to be incredibly naive to think that this song is about anything but sex.
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=6q_srJGOkFE
Here’s a rough translation of the lyrics.
http://www.oftenwrong.net/2007/03/22/france-gall-les-sucettes/
(“Les sucettes a l’anis”…”Les sucettes a l’Annie” get it? “Annie’s little blowjobs”…Pour quelques (for a few ) penny…”(sounds like ‘penes’, the Latin plural of penis).
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