tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6196408116686002095.post787668594065015121..comments2023-07-17T11:58:00.816-03:00Comments on What the kimchi???: What the ... fuck you?!?!?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6196408116686002095.post-63692071056370882592010-10-13T18:39:49.006-03:002010-10-13T18:39:49.006-03:00Stig
I never saw that episode of FG.
The panda,...Stig<br /><br />I never saw that episode of FG. <br /><br />The panda, dolphin, and unicorn bits made me chuckle.Flinthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00751432023350206246noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6196408116686002095.post-839173897647006772010-10-13T18:15:08.130-03:002010-10-13T18:15:08.130-03:00I didn't think the opening was funny as such. ...I didn't think the opening was funny as such. It certainly could be taken as a "generic" kind of statement about sweat shops, but not necessarily about Koreans specifically. I thought of it as more about Chinese than Koreans. It just didn't have a punch line to it, so I was left with a kind of flat, mystified feeling after it was over.<br />It reminded me of a "Family Guy" sweat shop gag, where Stewie is sewing shoes together. He sews his hand to one shoe and asks to go to the hospital. The guard brings in a pregnant woman who immediately delivers a child that is used to replace Stewie.<br />I wonder what Bobby would have to say about that?Stighttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17000294250268453164noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6196408116686002095.post-31209925322573336522010-10-12T23:03:37.518-03:002010-10-12T23:03:37.518-03:00Well said. Promote it for what it is not what you ...Well said. Promote it for what it is not what you wish it was.Flinthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00751432023350206246noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6196408116686002095.post-66768865362331373612010-10-12T22:44:54.776-03:002010-10-12T22:44:54.776-03:00Hey, the something is something joke is just made ...Hey, the something is something joke is just made better when in the Korean context. In a way it is a joke just for us despite the fact that it probably wasn't intended for us. <br /><br />My first time in Korea, I lived in a dorm for six weeks with a bunch of Korean highschool kids. We took a trip to some islands off the coast of Mokpo. Everybody told me that we were going to the Korean Caribbean. The place that we ended up was certainly nice, but I don't think that it was anything like the Caribbean. If I went to the Bahamas or Jamaica, I would probably be disappointed if I had to sleep on the floor, or swim in cold water. They could have called it the Korean Cuba without the exciting music scene or mojitos, but even that might have been a stretch. <br /><br />The fact remains that they should try to think of other ways of explaining places like that, because if you say something is the Korean something else, you just set someone up for disappointment, when there are a lot of really awesome places to go in Korea like Jirisan. Don't tell me that it is the Korean Mt. Everest, tell me that it is the Korean mountain of wisdom, which is what Jiri means.3gyupsalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05221321128938672113noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6196408116686002095.post-60149242460803975862010-10-12T20:57:53.612-03:002010-10-12T20:57:53.612-03:003gyupsal
You are spot on. It wasn't obvious. ...3gyupsal<br /><br />You are spot on. It wasn't obvious. I was trying to be facetious and appear as illogical as saying the opening was aimed at South Korea. And I failed. :( Next time .... I will definitely probably maybe make it work. ;)<br /><br />I haven't really watched 30 Rock. :( <br /><br />Hell, the McGill comment was aimed directly at Canada. I wonder if I should be offended? Naw, it was pretty funny. :)Flinthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00751432023350206246noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6196408116686002095.post-48541088673573532462010-10-12T20:52:15.532-03:002010-10-12T20:52:15.532-03:00I wouldn't say that the "something of the...I wouldn't say that the "something of the something else," was an obvious did at Korea. You have to be familiar with Korea first for that joke to take on that connotation. <br /><br />Actually 30 rock takes a lot more shots at Korea and Koreans than The Simpsons does. But I agree with you, I didn't see anything blatantly offensive about the opening sequence. I watched it with my Korean wife, and she thought it was funny, she didn't seem to think that it had anything to do with Korea either. <br /><br />Just more sweatshops and china. Only a portion of the opening sequence dealt with the cartoons being drawn in a sweatshop, the rest was about the merchandise...which actually probably does come from a Chinese sweatshop.3gyupsalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05221321128938672113noreply@blogger.com