Wednesday, June 24, 2009
everyone's getting so worked up over korean stars, korean everything.
screaming their frantic heads off at the 4-lettered word. (i mean DBSK XD)
but i'm convinced that this is just a small wave that'll wash away in no time. Yes. in no time, maybe a span of months or weeks or even days, people will grow to realise:
"why do all my korean idols look the same?"
"they went to the same surgeon."
i'm okay with korean stuff. but i dont see why people must go CRAZY over them. people who desperately yearn to learn Korean and find a handsome korean guy(which sadly, doesnt really exist in Korea besides all the actors), force themselves to eat kimchi even when they dont like it...then when the craze dies down, they quit korean lessons. they throw their kimchi away.
you should only learn something for the sake of nurturing a pure interest in that subject without external dependent factors like "because my favourite actor is korean so i will learn korean. when he is old and ugly, i will stop learning korean." If you're not that type, then i strongly encourage you to go crazy over the language, and the part of the country(unless you love North Korea as well)
i'm sure this probably angers alot of avid korean fans, who will nevertheless rebutt me with:
"Then why're you so crazy over Japan? Its the same thing."
i'm not crazy over Japan either. I have a pure interest of the language and I think that most japanese guys look like women. I dont want to stay in japan because the competition there is harsh. People are allowed to pee on the streets. Kids slit each other's thighs and one of them even chopped his mother's head off, planted it into a flower pot and brought it to the police station. The girls there aren't very pretty but they put on lots of makeup so they're gorgeously pretty. When i went to Japan, there wasn't a single ugly girl. Even overweight girls look super "moeeee!" kawaii due to the layers and layers of make-up they put on. Despite all of this, I LOVE JAPAN. its not because of the entertainment industry or the food or anything, but because i like the language and the culture. Would you, a blind korean enthusiast be able to say the same thing about your interest? I think when the wave is over, i'll see alot of korean junk piled in trash cans. And i'm sure Koreans would be cursing such people for doing such a thing to their culture. If Korea didn't have an entertainment industry in their country, would you still like korea? or would you just treat it like some other patch on the globe. I would still like Japan. Even if nothing is left in that country one day, i would still go there to fish.
I think i'm one of the only girls in my school who hasnt watched the Korean Version of "Boys before Flowers". Its not because i hate korea(which i dont, because i love the food and the place), but simply because i dont have the time to and i only support originals. Almost all of Taiwan's dramas are taken from Japanese Manga, anime or dramas. Now that Korea's also doing the same, i feel that supporting the originals aka the japanese versions, would be very helpful to the people who created the very ideas. Japan can't sue Korea or Taiwan for ripping their shows due to reasons like 1)they changed the name of the show and called it their own 2)it helps to spread the show around the globe, regardless of whether it is the original.
but then again, Korea and Taiwan are not dumb in doing so, after you watch failure series again and again from Mediacorp. I dont see people going crazy over Mediacorp actresses and actors or shows. The Little Nonya craze is .__. gone.
People should open their eyes when they do things.
screaming their frantic heads off at the 4-lettered word. (i mean DBSK XD)
but i'm convinced that this is just a small wave that'll wash away in no time. Yes. in no time, maybe a span of months or weeks or even days, people will grow to realise:
"why do all my korean idols look the same?"
"they went to the same surgeon."
i'm okay with korean stuff. but i dont see why people must go CRAZY over them. people who desperately yearn to learn Korean and find a handsome korean guy(which sadly, doesnt really exist in Korea besides all the actors), force themselves to eat kimchi even when they dont like it...then when the craze dies down, they quit korean lessons. they throw their kimchi away.
you should only learn something for the sake of nurturing a pure interest in that subject without external dependent factors like "because my favourite actor is korean so i will learn korean. when he is old and ugly, i will stop learning korean." If you're not that type, then i strongly encourage you to go crazy over the language, and the part of the country(unless you love North Korea as well)
i'm sure this probably angers alot of avid korean fans, who will nevertheless rebutt me with:
"Then why're you so crazy over Japan? Its the same thing."
i'm not crazy over Japan either. I have a pure interest of the language and I think that most japanese guys look like women. I dont want to stay in japan because the competition there is harsh. People are allowed to pee on the streets. Kids slit each other's thighs and one of them even chopped his mother's head off, planted it into a flower pot and brought it to the police station. The girls there aren't very pretty but they put on lots of makeup so they're gorgeously pretty. When i went to Japan, there wasn't a single ugly girl. Even overweight girls look super "moeeee!" kawaii due to the layers and layers of make-up they put on. Despite all of this, I LOVE JAPAN. its not because of the entertainment industry or the food or anything, but because i like the language and the culture. Would you, a blind korean enthusiast be able to say the same thing about your interest? I think when the wave is over, i'll see alot of korean junk piled in trash cans. And i'm sure Koreans would be cursing such people for doing such a thing to their culture. If Korea didn't have an entertainment industry in their country, would you still like korea? or would you just treat it like some other patch on the globe. I would still like Japan. Even if nothing is left in that country one day, i would still go there to fish.
I think i'm one of the only girls in my school who hasnt watched the Korean Version of "Boys before Flowers". Its not because i hate korea(which i dont, because i love the food and the place), but simply because i dont have the time to and i only support originals. Almost all of Taiwan's dramas are taken from Japanese Manga, anime or dramas. Now that Korea's also doing the same, i feel that supporting the originals aka the japanese versions, would be very helpful to the people who created the very ideas. Japan can't sue Korea or Taiwan for ripping their shows due to reasons like 1)they changed the name of the show and called it their own 2)it helps to spread the show around the globe, regardless of whether it is the original.
but then again, Korea and Taiwan are not dumb in doing so, after you watch failure series again and again from Mediacorp. I dont see people going crazy over Mediacorp actresses and actors or shows. The Little Nonya craze is .__. gone.
People should open their eyes when they do things.
何時も同じな空の下で笑えるからさ, 2:43 pm.
