If not, here is the link to my post on her.
After enjoying the Japanese drama she starred in recently (I thought it was really sweet and funny) I was quietly wondering about the All is Quiet (lack of popularity) on the Western Front with regards to her popularity foray into Japan.
Well, she’s got (metaphorically) tamago on the face, as they have had to cancel a promotion event of some cosmetics company that she was set to appear in on the grounds of her safety. The netizens there have been virulently attacking the company that hired her for the promotion, leaving comments on the website, and the company is considering not airing the commercial. Where is the bodyguard when you need him? (Story from the drama) oh, yes, he is starring in another drama at the moment called “Strawberry Night”.
I think she should fold her ambition to become a peaceful go-between and come back home.
We have our very own Japanese go-between angel Sayuri, who is very popular in Korea at the moment. She was one of the Misuda girls, and was known for her 4차원 ways. I laughed my arse off watching her clips. She has gained a lot of popularity with her heavenly weird but very smart straight talking, and is appearing in a lot of programs, especially the ones where she goes on food-tasting trips around and outside Korea, and says things like “맛없어요” ^^. She has also been in the news recently for various reasons including disclosing that she has been having a really hard, scary time from a Japanese anti-fan who emails her to “Stop appearing on Korean TV pretending to be a Japanese when she is actually a zainichi (she is not)” and threatens “she will be killed”..
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Who is she? Is she suppose to be important?
Japanese should just give up bashing Korea. They’ve got serious problems that need tending.
This article was a tad incoherent…
Another favorite Japanese actress in Korea is Yoomin (Yuko Fueki) who first launched her career in Korea 12 years ago. She’s now acting in Japan.
I hear that actor Jang Geun Seok and even KARA are under attack in Japan, with vicious rumor mongering pertaining to their Korean nationalities.
cm- the japanese seem to be making a habit out of bashing Korea or anything coming out of Korea. Why they would do this? I heard that they could be jealous of Korea seeing their country has gotten nowhere within the last 20 years. But I am not sure why though.
Japan is a strange country.
I have a hunch that since Japan is going through hard times these days, they need someone to beat up on again. And that someone seems to be Korea, again.
Japan is not going through excessively hard times, comparing to large chunks of the West (read Europe and 90% of America) they do just fine and it’s only a few hikikomori nutcases who fuel these internet flame wars. Most Japanese people have absolutely no opinion or a mildly positive opinion of Korea.
Right wing extremism in Japan is by far a less relevant and threatening phenomenon comparing to say Germany or the UK.
East Asia is fine truly…peaceful. civilised, mild-mannered area
YB,
Is there right-wing extremism in the U.K. too?
jk a lot of it everywhere in Europe, it’s the ghost that never goes away. Eastern Europe suffers the worst problems
YB,
Hmm, that’s interesting. Didn’t know it existed in Western Europe.
jk i hope this helps:
http://www.skcentral.com/news.php?readmore=4949
http://mobile.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/europe/italy/111214/florence-attack-racist-author-gianluca-casseri-kills-senegalese
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/nov/15/germany-neo-nazi-terror-cell-doner-killings
YB,
Thanks for the links.
Wow, that’s scary. Sweden, of all places..
I thought Sweden was a sort of utopia. I guess not.
Sayuri is one of my all-time fave TV crushes. It’s true she’s very funny. Very, dare I say, SASSY.
In the cooking clip you posted, she looks older. But that makes sense. Sayuri is in her 30s, maybe late 30s, and the last time I saw anything relating to her was 2008? 2009?
It’s been years since Misuda (geez, time flies!), and I haven’t watched K TV in a loooong time, save for all the music related stuff. But I’m glad to see that Sayuri is still around and kicking. And still pretty.
Also MIA: Bronwyn (That S. African girl). She twitters and seems to be in Korea still. I wonder if she ever found her dog “Coco” after Abigaile (another former Misuda panelist) lost her.
I’ve seen Abigaile in a brief clip of some sort relating to a drama. So she seems still seems to be in Korea and doing fine. I remember Abigaile’s mother — a Hispanic lady who speaks 100% fluent Korean.
And I also know about Annabelle who got married recently and still lives in Korea. What’s Eva and Luvada up to?
Sayuri is not Zainichi. I remember Misuda did an episode that featured her mother, who, like Sayuri, seemed to be a very zany character. And I believe I’ve seen pics of her brother, who looks like Choi Shi Won or something.
This is a funny (recent?) video of Sayuri interviewing actor Choi Min Su.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUg8lwTl-3c
I remember Choi Min Su in that Bae Yong Jun fantasy period drama. Good actor. His villainous acting made the show, IMO.
#12 Also mine. She looks like my best friend in Japan. Her mother is also like the mother of my best friend, completely eccentric and young-minded. You can find other youtube clips if you hunt around.
I also like Taru a lot.
Eva and Brownwyn and Taru etc recently were in a funny TV program where they go on a Templestay experience. Depsite all the rap that program got, it’s nice to see some of the nice girls seem to have found good places for themselves within the country by marriage etc.
Here’s Sayuri and Abi visiting Sayuri’s family in Japan.
Thanks for the clips. I see Bianco in the video. I remember her too. She’s half-Korean. Her sister was on the program one time and she also speaks fluent Korean — but doesn’t look very Korean.
What’s odd is that the running joke on the Misuda show, and what everyone seem to sense is that Bianca and Abigaile sort of look alike and that Bianca’s rise in popularity sort of displaced Abigaile and made the latter redundant. Abigaile would joke about that herself. The really odd thing is, Abigaile’s mom looks similar to Bianca’s sister. Maybe that’s just me.
– Bianca is looking good. Eva and Bronwyn haven’t changed.
^16, Bianca got married in a secret sudden surprise marriage to a Korean guy who was her boyfriend.
Why? Was their Korean nationality ever a matter of dispute? And what Jang said (or was accused of saying) was funny. I mean, really, who amoungst us has never made lewd comments about Sora Aoi?
YOu mad japan?
I think you mad.
#18 – Jang was accused of buying his support from Japanese crowd who were paid off to greet him in the airport. And of course, that comment you just talked about. KARA is accused of being a front for the North Koreans because one of their Japanese managers look like a guy who showed up for the protests by North Korean association in Japan.
I find those accusations really funny and odd.
YB, japan may not be going to excessively hard times but some people in the financial world are predicting that it could blow up within the next 10 years. Greece has a debt that is 160% of GDP without a competitive industry to help it earn money while Japan has 220% debt over their 3rd largest GDP in the world. They are kept afloat from a increasing hollowing out industry that is very competitive and high savings rates which is now pretty much all tied up to their debts. Pretty soon you might hear that they may have trouble financing their debt. All this debt due to ineffectual stimulus packages that continue to add debt.
more surprise would have been marriage to a guy who was not her boyfriend.
japan’s got nothing to worry about since they can always print yen out of thin air. or just add a bunch of zeroes to their digital balance sheet. problem solved!
ps. sayuri is really pretty. kinda flat chested but still very attractive overall.
Didn’t know where to post this but check this out. http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2012/02/113_105432.html
Its about Korean consul requesting Sydney councils for information on Korean nationals working as prostitutes.
Just wanted to put this out there and hear others opinions on this.
I live in Sydney and I can tell you that a significant number of prostitutes in Australia are Korean these days. I’ve read a Korean investigative article on the rise of these Korean “Full Shop” style brothels in Sydney since the early 2000s.
Well I can tell you that I dare say over 50% of prostitutes in Australian major cities are Korean.
Many attribute this to the rising crack down on prostitutes in Korea. But I don’t believe that’s the reason.
Compared to say Vietnam, Thailand, Phillipines or even China its very easy for Koreans to visit Australia and especially with the infamous “Working Holiday visa”. So what you get is a mass exodus of Korean sex workers working in Australia.
But what the worst thing is many of these girls arn’t full time sex workers from Korea but young Korean women (many students) that come here to “learn english” or thats what they tell their family and friends and come here and make over $100 an hr commonly even over $1000 a day.
Also alot of true blue exchange students are starting to work in these places first at massage parlours which don’t sell sex but do provide a “happy ending” and is a full nude massage. Then of course with their rising living standards they work up the chain to full shops for more money. Most probably due to Overseas Koreans clumping together so word gets around the community about these easy money jobs. FYI the local Korean community newspapers and magazines are PEPPERED with advertisements for both men and women with captions like ‘make over $10,000 a week’.
What i’ve always wondered is this. SOOOOOO many of these girls come here whore themselves out make good money then eventually go back to Korea and act like nothing happened. Probably get married and etc. My mums even told me that this scenario was an episode on the Korean Divorce TV Show ‘사랑과 전쟁’.
So if I was a Korean guy living in Korea I would be scared to find out that a girl has been to Australia. Thats whats happeneing. And I personally know plenty of quality hard working Korean exchange students, that will go back to Korea and have to face such suspicions because of these whores.
Another issue is that these girls arn’t some South East Asian peasant farmers daughters. They come from a rich country and don’t want to work at Maccas for 20$ an hr so they whore themselves out in secret.
Even my self was disheartened a long time ago when I uttered “theres no such thing as a Korean prostitute” because of course my knowledge of Korea is that of a kyopo shaped from my parents stories and the tv shows that are on at home, to be proven wrong with “bro like all the whores here are from Korea”.
Sorry for the long rant but just as many of the comments on the original link i posted say, these women are really putting up a bad image of Korea and even for people like me Australian Koreans. It was long ago when overseas prostitutes would be stereotyped as Thai or Filipina. Now they are white skinned Big Sunglasses wearing high heels black straight hair with a cap on innocent looking Koreans that dominate the market here.
Rant out…Just wanted to get this out there…
Just to continue on even in the clubbing scene here in Australia, these whores off duty stick out like dogs balls. The quintessential Korean fashion style of tight jeans and white shirts (LOL sorry for the stereotype obviously not always like this but) and obvious plastic surgeries.
It’s embarassing to go out and see my friends point them out and say “LOL your people”.
rant out…
Japs are angry that Korea is doing much better.
Haters gonna hate.
XD
PeteDU:
I moved to the US when i wasn’t even 23, i found what looked at the time like a fantastic, almost fairy-tale like, job as a currency trader in an internet broker start-up that was lookin’ to hire eurotrash, i ended up living there for 6 years (i had an h1b visa initially).
All of a sudden i found myself nettin’ after taxes 200 grands a year, a sum of money that at the time was for me, a lower class wopper, sheer luxury. Mind you we’re talking about the almighty dollar of the 1990′s, not the banana bucks of today.
Well all of a sudden i also found myself relatively popular with the local females, despite my shitty English, my less than stellar looks and my not-so-social personality.
Instead of taking advantage of the situation i entered a time of severe depression, where basically i spent all my money stupidly in booze and drugs.
One night i was in this bar downtown, i ended up chattin’ to this older Irish-American businessman (think he was in something related to real estate). He asked me what i thought of American women and i replied bitterly they looked to me like a bunch of whores…notice i didn’t mean it as promiscuous but as business oriented.
He smiled and replied to me “Man this an extremely capitalistic society”.
Now Pete think about these Korean girls: they grew up in one of the fastest growing, most capitalistic societies in the world. One where traditional values have been shattered so quickly. Now in modern society everywhere only money and beauty count, sex has been (right or wrong) completely detached from morals. There’s way more stigma in being poor and ugly than in being a hooker.
So you wanna blame those girls for wantin’ to ride on the Hallyu insanity, bring home some won/aussie $ carry trade profits and generally make a quick dime, instead of slaving for peanut shit, serving a bunch of dumb hicks all day ?
I wouldn’t
First of all, I highly doubt Korean women make up 50% of Australia’s 30,000+ prostitutes. I remember an article estimating about 1000, to 4000 Korean women working in Australia. Second of all, prostitution is perfectly legal in Australia, so there’s nothing illegal about Korean girls getting a working holiday visa and going over there to work in a legally recognized job.
The Korean government has asked the Australian government, the Korean names of those who are in the industry, because Korea sees prostitution illegal, and they are planning to prosecute those who come back to Korea.
This is making the Australian government uncomfortable, because according to Australian standards, those girls are doing nothing wrong.
#23,
causing inflation isn’t a good solution or rather trying to take advantage of an inflation tax.
#24,
wouldn’t that be sort of impinging on Australian sovereignty. If Australian law which I am not familiar with were a bit more permissive towards such activity why should they inform the Korean Consul? Also I think the press may also be exaggerating. Even if this is what a lot of Koreans engage in it is only a matter of time for people back in Korea to think that people that go to Australia tend to engage in such things.
YangachiBastardo thanks for your input. Thats the kind of discussions i wanna hear.
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