There was a new Korean drama series, Joseon Exorcist, similar to The Kingdom - zombie theme set in historical Korea. Apparently had some PRC funding. And sounds like some PRC influences in the storyline that were unbecoming beloved aspects of Korean history. They turned a beloved king into a tyrant. And food and other aspects were clearly Chinese.

ALL advertisers pulled support after 2 shows. Thousands petitioned to have the show cancelled (produced and aired by a major network). Korean academia critical of the show. Show was cancelled and no funding source wants to touch it.

Fuck you PRC. And good for Koreans for standing up for their history and culture. I wish we would do that here as well.

Hear, hear!

Hear! Hear! Indeed!

Excellent news, my friend.

Not trying to be disrespectful but other than Koreans, who the fuck is watching Korean television? Nothing sucks worse than subtitles on top of voiceovers and neither of them match the other. When Netflix started putting foreign shit in their feed without even attempting to warn you that the show is in Turkish I believe is when my brain tumor started growing. Fuck.

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Not trying to be disrespectful but other than Koreans, who the fuck is watching Korean television? Nothing sucks worse than subtitles on top of voiceovers and neither of them match the other. When Netflix started putting foreign shit in their feed without even attempting to warn you that the show is in Turkish I believe is when my brain tumor started growing. Fuck.

My wife discovered korean shows during Covid lockdown. She and other friends and family of hers. And, yes, I think they moved on to other country shows also.

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Originally posted by pedropcola:
Not trying to be disrespectful but other than Koreans, who the fuck is watching Korean television? Nothing sucks worse than subtitles on top of voiceovers and neither of them match the other. When Netflix started putting foreign shit in their feed without even attempting to warn you that the show is in Turkish I believe is when my brain tumor started growing. Fuck.

My wife discovered korean shows during Covid lockdown. She and other friends and family of hers. And, yes, I think they moved on to other country shows also.

KMPC AM, 1540, L.A. is all Korean language radio. Strong 10K signal.

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Not trying to be disrespectful but other than Koreans, who the fuck is watching Korean television?

Not Korean, and I don't watch their television shows, but there's quite a few fantastic films that come out of Korea. Especially if you like action flicks. Wacth "The Man From Nowhere" and see what you think.

Nope. Never seen an action flick from Korea. Don’t plan on it either. Last foreign sci fi I watched was some Japanese movie, Battleship Yamato or some such shit. Set in space. Battleship. Fucking horrible.

I suspect you guys probably might like anime as well. Different strokes.

COVID has allowed a lot of shitty entertainment to be viewed. Under normal conditions I don’t think some of these shows would ever see daylight.

So, just because, if you were going to recommend the single best Korean action flick to a nonbeliever, what would it be?

Sidebar. Do people still listen to AM radio? And second sidebar, does anyone on this thread speak Korean?

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Last foreign sci fi I watched was some Japanese movie, Battleship Yamato or some such shit. Set in space. Battleship. Fucking horrible.

It sounds fucking horrible, and that's why I've never seen it. I'm sorry you decided to sit through that.

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I suspect you guys probably might like anime as well. Different strokes.

Not at all, speaking for myself.

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So, just because, if you were going to recommend the single best Korean action flick to a nonbeliever, what would it be?

I'm far from some sort of connoisseur, but you might start with the one I suggested. I'm sure other folks would recommend Old Boy, among others.

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Sidebar. Do people still listen to AM radio?

I'm sure people do all kinds of things you find disagreeable.

Jackie Chan Hong Kong movies have always been worth seeing, even if they are subtitled or even voiced over.

Every Asian girl I know watches Korean soap operas and I swear they get their ideas of how relationships are supposed to happen from them. Never having seen a Korean soap opera I was still able to summarize the standard plot line to a T, so much so that a Chinese woman asked how I knew!

If you don't know, they contain a lot of female "drama" - jealousy, breakup tests, etc. And yes, you get to experience it for real when you date an Asian girl who grew up in Asia.

I saw Iron Man 3 in China with a Chinese female friend and they changed the subplot of the black doctors fixing Tony's heart so he didn't need the chest implant to Chinese doctors speaking Mandarin, with very obvious Chinese product placement. Otherwise the movie was in English with Chinese subtitles. I had to ask my friend what they were saying during those parts. Perhaps that part was changed to local language/doctors in other countries too, but I had to rewatch it in the US to see how it was intended to be.

China does not allow any nudity or anything that would get an R rating, so everything has to be PG-13. Even the painting scene in Titanic had to be edited to avoid the bare nipple. As such, Marvel movies and other PG-13 action movies are very big there, and the studios will modify content to ensure wide distribution in China. Not sure what they did to Black Panther in China though, can't really change everyone to Chinese in that one...

China also does not permit nudity onstage in clubs, just go-go dancers in bikinis. But, I have been told that in some private Karaoke club rooms, with girls that you pay the club for their "company" singing, anything goes depending on how much you pay. But of course, every massage parlor is a front for prostitution, even the otherwise legitimate ones, and hookers will commonly approach you in and around hotels. So much for sanitizing movies to improve "morality".

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Sidebar. Do people still listen to AM radio? And second sidebar, does anyone on this thread speak Korean?

I'm pretty sure there's more than a few men on this forum with Korean wives who still speak the language.

Now, back to our regular program.

So no then. I only ask because an AM Korean radio station was thrown out there like anybody on this thread could listen to a Korean radio station and make heads or tails out of it. Seemed like an odd suggestion unless someone here spoke the language.


So man from nowhere is the money. Ok, I shall try it. I know The Parasite won best movie Oscar, it’s Korean, and it sucked. Maybe action is their forte.

I shouldn’t have sat through it (Yamato) but like I said, COVID has allowed a lot of tv to be seen that under normal circumstances should never be seen. Unless you like sci fi, battleship in space drama, with bad voiceovers and non matching subtitles, then it would be perfect.

Been watching a couple of the Korean action series on Netflix and like them. Got into Korean movies via "The Man From Nowhere" and several other Korean movies made around that same time ("Oldboy", "I Saw The Devil", and others).

The mainstream rom-com korean tv can be pretty sappy. But many are pretty enjoyable and sweetly innocent. It's not all about sex and getting laid asap like US TV.

I didn't like Parasite either - some of it was good and funny. As the ending approached, it got dumb and weird.

In terms of movies, not sure what genre you want to try out. Train to Busan was pretty good. War of Arrows was also good. Memories of the Sword was decent. Coin Locker Girl was disturbing. The Beauty Inside was interesting for a rom-com with a variation of a theme. Scandal Makers was sweetly funny, as was My Sassy Girl.

There are a lot of Korean movies I've enjoyed but can't think of names.

For Japanese, I enjoyed Okuribito.

For Chinese, I enjoyed King of Masks.

I'm sure there is a synopsis of each available online somewhere. And it occurs to me that some familiarity with Korean, Chinese and/or Japanese culture may make the movies, characters and behaviors more understandable and relatable.

But anyway, if you don't like movies w/ subtitles, your choice. I find there is richness in foreign movies. Life is Beautiful is one of my all time favorites in any language. As is Cinema Paradiso. And perhaps Amelie.

ETA: thought of a couple of (Korean) others: Masquerade, A Taxi Driver, Miss Baek, Always, No Tears for the Dead

Excellent Korean films:

The Host
Parasite
Snowpiercer
Oldboy
Mother
etc.

Also, when viewing foriegn language films with English subtitles the key is to do your best to ignore the subtitles and just pay attention to context, glancing occasionally at the subtitles to help.

It's not an interview, every word isn't that important.. it's a movie, with humans, much will make sense.

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Also, when viewing foriegn language films with English subtitles the key is...

Yes, very much so. In addition to that, I try not to get too hung up on awkward wording in translations, which can be pretty common. Not everything in language translates perfectly and the person doing the translating can be a limiting factor, but as you say, the performance of a human being is the important part to focus on.

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Sidebar. Do people still listen to AM radio? And second sidebar, does anyone on this thread speak Korean?

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I don't watch Korean dramas that much but their action movies are quite good.

Like most everything, folks like different things.

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So, just because, if you were going to recommend the single best Korean action flick to a nonbeliever, what would it be?

War of the Arrows is a great period film.

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So, just because, if you were going to recommend the single best Korean action flick to a nonbeliever, what would it be?

Luck Key. (Leokkei)
It’s an action comedy. It’s subtitled. It’s a great movie. I’ve been married to a Korean woman so long, subtitles are just part of TV. Not a big deal to me.

Luck Key is pretty good. It’s a remake of a Japanese movie called Key of Life (I think).