Here’s a sneak peak at the new promotional vignette for Seoul. It will be featured on CNN later this month.
CNN Vignette | Seoul City Promo
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Anyone heard about the story of the musician Yu Jin Bak , who was beaten and exploited by a Korean ‘entertainment’ company? I’d like some detail if anyone has any.
Infinitely Yours. Infinitely better than “Sparkling.” How much did Korea’s tourism board may that European guy for that Sparkling bull crap any ways?
With all due respect to Rain, although Koreans like him like to show prospective tourists all the modern trappings of a developed country, etc. I have to ask myself if tourists want to come to Korea to see Manhattan-like buildings when they could see Manhattan-like buildings in, uh… Manhattan.
*pay* not *may*
I think GK Chesterton said something to the effect of , narrow minded people — that is, most people — will only get more narrowminded during their travels outside what is familiar to them. Better stick to what is familiar, then.
Much much better than ‘Sparkling Korea’ or ‘Hi Seoul’.
I like the production, though it might have helped to accentuate the contrasts a little more, with some shots of Insadong, for example.
How well is Rain known outside of Korea (aside from Steven Colbert’s hilarious jabs at him)?
Yeah, but think about it… you are trying to get Mr. and Mrs. Peoria to travel 8-10k miles and brave a 8-15 hour flight and all you can show are skyscrapers and other assorted night time cityscapes? On top of that you make them read subtitles!?!?! Whitey is notorious throughout the world for not liking to read subtitles.
I mean, hell… this is meant for CNN, right?
Okay, what do white people in North America associate with Asia?
1) Megapolis… yes… but I don’t think they would go all the way there to see that.
2) Tradition… yes but there is none in that vignette. I think you show shots of the megapolis only to show prospective tourists that it is in fact modern, safe and convenient, but that’s not the main draw! There are no images of pagodas, hansiks, temples, pavilions, etc.
3) Hot asian girls. Hell throw a few in there instead of a dancing Rain. I know Mr. Peoria will appreciate it! Ms. Peoria thinks Rain is too skinny…
This is clearly aimed at Singaporeans, Hong Kongers and other Asians, i.e. people who like Rain. It won’t do jack in the U.S. if they run it there.
Um Wedge, it won’t do jack no matter what they do.
@7
“This is clearly aimed at Singaporeans, Hong Kongers and other Asians, i.e. people who like Rain. It won’t do jack in the U.S. if they run it there.”
The above is true. This focus on Asians who watch k-dramas and listen to k-pop.
Why is so difficult to Korea to learn from “Malaysia truly Asia” and “India, incredible India” ? Hell, we know how these countries really are, but the ads are darn powerful!!!
Well, if they would pay attention to those above, they may come up with “Koreeeeaaaa, SpaKlin Koree-eea…”
Whitey?
This from the champion of “cultural sensitivity”. Oh, I forgot, that only applies to hantrodden.
Again…. where is your freakin’ sense of humor?
# 7,
But it’s meant for CNN!
@11:
“Did you hear the one about the gook who went to the doctor and complained that he was too smart…”
What, it’s not funny; because it uses a racial slur and is based on a racial stereotype?
Yeah, I thought so…
@12 CNN sells ads regionally, so it’s possibly to just target Asia. I’m also not sure that this will run solely on CNN; it might run on some of the regional news stations like Channel News Asia, based in Singapore.
Sperwer,
No, I’ve never heard that one… is it funny?
Man, you have no sense of imagination… You do know that I wrote this comment before I wrote #6 in this present thread, right? That can also be interpreted as racial, but I think you can figure out that it’s not. We shouldn’t be serious all the time. It makes life bland.
But seriously, you being some type of acrid shadow to all my comments while looking for some sort of inconsistency to latch onto is a tad childish don’t you think?
“when they could see Manhattan-like buildings in, uh… Manhattan.”
or infinitely more in Hong Kong, Shanghai……place name of city here…etc
“where is your freakin’ sense of humour”
Did the notion that “whiteys” aren’t allowed a sense of humour pass you by. Why should we have to accept double standards without comment.
Wangkon…you said: “Yeah, but think about it… you are trying to get Mr. and Mrs. Peoria to travel 8-10k miles and brave a 8-15 hour flight and all you can show are skyscrapers and other assorted night time cityscapes?”
I lived in Peoria for quite a while and you might be surprised how many of those folk would like to see skyscrapers. Of course, they can drive 3 hours to Chicago and see them:)
Sorry Wangkon (or Sperwer, if he was trying to prove some point) I found Sperwer’s joke funny. Maybe a C+ funny, but I found it additionally funny coming from Sperwer in order to prove that the whitey joke was unfunny to him so it got bumped up to a B- on the funny scale. I am a twisted person.
What?! No break dancing?!
Thanks Arghaeri, WangKon’s wilful obtuseness and subaltern bad faith is getting tiresome.
Arghaeri and Sperwer,
I meant no racial overtones. Besides, the word “whitey” is more of a humor device on TMH any ways, at least that’s how I understood it:
http://www.rjkoehler.com/2009/04/08/koreas-english-pandemic-and-those-damn-whitey-loosers/
http://www.rjkoehler.com/2009/03/30/its-all-whiteys-fault/
http://www.rjkoehler.com/2006/05/24/so-whitey-was-the-nice-imperialist-eh/
# 18,
My point exactly…
WangKon… I took no offense to your “Whitey” comment, and I think your assessment is spot on.
I think the best way to lure Mr. and Mrs. Peoria to visit is get their daughter to teach English over here a year or two. They’ll miss her and will be curious what kind of place she’s living in. I’ve had so many visitors come to Korea over the past few years that I think I should fly free on Korean Air in exchange for all the business I’ve drummed up for them.
Thanks.
However, being the amateur economist that I am, I have to disagree with your solution. It’s still a net trade deficit. Let’s say Mr. and Mrs. Peoria send Ms. Peoria to Korea to teach English. She gets paid $25-35k a year to teach and that’s a gross trade loss. Her parents maybe come once to visit her. They spend (plus airfare if they use Korean Air or Asiana) $5k tops for a week’s stay. So it’s a net trade loss of $20-30k!
You can make the argument that Ms. Peoria’s presence in Korea adds to the wealth of Korea by bringing the possible acquisition of additional skills that can make Koreans more profitable… but let’s just say I’m not that optimistic.
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