KBS says don’t run down the street or your music video won’t get played, fool!
Whatever happened to the good old days of bands on TV?
Much thanks to k-popped! for this classic example of media/social screwiness.
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Well, running across the street in Korea is a bit dangerous and kids do try to imitate what they see on TV…
When did Korea start having traffic laws? (I left in 2004)
Whilst living there I drove like a mad taxi driver. The only time I was ever stopped by the police was for jaywalking.
BTW, the broadcasters still have the prohibition of outlandish hairstyles? It’s what stymied my budding k-pop career.
Could this be based on a rule that was set up before South Korea became democratic? It’s seems almost as if it’s a pretext, as if the censors fear kids will interpret this as a political message.
It didn’t and hasn’t – at least in the sense of legislation that is actually enforced in any sort of coherent, reasonably even-handed fashion and isn’t susceptible to systematic subversion by anyone with a advantageously placed hyungnim or other affine; but, of course, the latter point holds true across the board, not just in terms of traffic regs.
The only reason jaywalking is the only road offense that gets ticketed is because those are the only people the lazy-arsed police can motivate themselves to go after.
It’s a bit like Britain where you will get arrested for taking a photograph in public but you can stab and kill someone on the street with impunity.
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