Seems North Korea entered the TV advertisement age last month when Taedong Beer, Koryo Ginseng and famous Pyongyang naengmyeon joint Ongnyugwan ran spots on Korea Central TV.
Beats Big Bang’s Hite Beer ad. Probably a better beer, too.
Dude, the ginseng root was flying. That’s so rad.
Pure. Classic. Gold. If this doesn’t get me a link from Boing Boing, I don’t know what will.
Can’t wait for next year’s Arirang Games to roll around so we can see North Korea’s version of the Super Bowl ads.
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Third video… opening scene. Is that dog running away from those North Koreans? Hahaha…. okay, sorry but I couldn’t help it.
It’s OK, we all thought the same thing. “Boy, that dog better be fucking running…”
Very disappointed there was no super-sexy North Korean hanbok team in the Taedong Beer advert.
Only North Korea could be a country cruel enough to make 2 minute comercials! I love the last one with the chefs scoping out the women practicing for the mass games.
I fully agree with Madar – those are some long commercials…….
I love how the entire Korean peninsula is bright red in the second ad.
Has that kinda 80′s vibe to it.
Because nothing says quality like assembly line foodmaking, with no gloves and only occasional masks.
NK never came across a fancy fadeout or an echo effect that they didn’t like, it seems.
Ah, the ubiquitous echo effect. Not a lot of choices when your equipment consists of a Chinese karaoke machine. But there is always the Applause button.
A whole 2 minutes of entertainment for the masses, who are drooling for these items.
I noticed that Joe McPherson had a trackback to this posting. I check out his mug on the Korean Herald’s article titled “Dinner decisions with less stress” and Joe looks bigger than I had thought… which is fine. The best food critics are bigger, like Jonathan Gold…
I iz very confused . . . why do the Norks have commercials?
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