Captain Crunch made a surprise trip the Mid-Atlantic region, bringing a very strange Korean rice beer, and regaling Pigweed and Crowhill with tales of her travels in Korea.
What’s different over there? Shopping. Weather. Living arrangements. Technology. Driving. Trash. Having a wacko neighbor to the north. Snack foods.
Listen in and hear all about it.
I had a Korean-American friend in London who could go on for hours about how everything cool in Japan was stolen from Korea. Thought it was the usual complaint between neighbours and rivals until I read about the Imjin Wars..
The area of Large Canadian City I live in is sometimes nicknamed North Korea because of its location and its large Korean population. So there are a lot of Korean-language movies playing at our local theatre, or at least there were in the Before Time, and I enjoyed them a lot. Some were really good (e.g. Assassination, the Fortress), others were mediocre, but what was so refreshing was that they were *different*: the story beats weren’t the same as American movies, so not everything fit into a three-act Save the Cat framework.
Somewhat related tidbit. The podcast “Real Dictators” did a few episodes on Kim Jong-il. That guy had some weird obsession with movies, and even kidnapped an actress to force her to perform in some of his own movies.