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Just found another favorite sitcom!

There aren’t very many sitcoms in Korea so I’m very excited when I find one.  I’m still watching Unstoppable High Kick (unbelievably funny and a must see) on my iPod (at episode 72 out if 166ish … yeah, it’ll take a while).  I decided to start watching another sitcom I found a while ago on the computer since I finished watching X-Files.  After digging through my collection I decided on watching Hello Franceska (안녕! 프란체스카).  After watching 8 episodes I can firmly say this is another most-see incredibly funny sitcom.  The best thing is that English subtitles are available.  It’s about a whacked-out family of vampires on their way to Japan who accidentally settle in Seoul, Korea.  As you can imagine, they and those around them find themselves in very uncomfortable situations.  I guess you could think of this as Korea’s The Munsters.

Anyways, head over here to watch the copy with English subtitles! (Here’s another source in case the first goes down)

Korean Movies

I’ve been wanting to put together all the info on movies I’ve seen or will see in the future so here it is.  All ratings are subject to change and some are off what I remember from a long time ago so may change if I remember that it was a better film … There’s a lot of films here so only the most recent / most liked / most hated are pretty certain.  This list will change as I add more to the list or watch old ones again.

Recommendations

X = I didn’t find it worthwhile in any way

XX = It has a few parts which make it worth watching, but overall not that great

XXX = Worth watching if you’ve watched the other good stuff

XXXX = Great movie, definitely worth watching

XXXXX = Absolutely.   Freaking.  Awesome.

Pre-Korean War

Korean title English title Year Seen? Recommend?
군용열차 Military Train 1937
병정님 Dear Soldier 1944 X X
자유만세 Hurrah! For Freedom 1946 X X

South Korean

Korean title English title Year Seen? Recommend?
피아골 Piagol 1955
지옥화 The Flower in Hell 1956 X XXXX
자유부인 Madame Freedom 1956
시집가는 날 The Wedding Day 1956
하녀 The Housemaid 1960 X XXXX
오발탄 Stray Bullet / Aimless Bullet 1960
사랑방 손님과 어머니 Mother and a Guest 1961
서울의 지붕밑 Under the Sky of Seoul 1961 X X
돌아오지 않는 해병 The Marines Who Never Returned 1963
비무장지대 The DMZ 1965
월하의 공동묘지 The Public Cemetery under the Moon 1967
충녀 The Insect Woman 1972
소나기 The Shower 1978
미미와 철수의 청춘스케치 Youth Sketch 1987
칠수와 만수 Chilsu and Mansu 1988
남부군 North Korean Partisan in South Korea 1990
화엄경 Hwaomkyung 1993
서편제 Seopyeonje 1993 X XXXX
태백산맥 Taebaek Mountains 1994 X XXXXX
학생부군신위 Farewell, My Darling 1996 X XX
축제 Festival 1996 X XXX
공동경비구역JSA Joint Security Area (JSA) 2000 X XXXX
춘향뎐 Chunhyang 2000 X XXXX
엽기적인 그녀 My Sassy Girl 2001 X XXXXX
달마야 놀자 Hi Dharma 2001 X XX
클래식 Classic 2002 X XXXXX
오구 Ogu 2003
남남북녀 Love of South and North 2003 X X
동갑내기 과외하기 My Tutor Friend 2003 X XX
실미도 Silmido 2003
살인의 추억 Memories Of Murder 2003 X XXXX
올드보이 Oldboy 2003 X XXXXX
동해물과 백두산이 North Korean Guys 2003
그때 그사람들 The Presidents Last Bang 2004 X XX
여선생 vs 여제자 Lovely Rivals 2004 X XXXX
돌려차기 Spin Kick 2004 X X
태극기 휘날리며 Tae Guk Gi 2004 X XXXXX
빈집 3-Iron 2004 X XXXXX
시실리 2Km To Catch a Virgin Ghost 2004 X X
키다리 아저씨 Daddy Long Legs 2004 X XXX
귀신이 산다 Ghost House 2004 X XX
내 사랑 싸가지 100 Days With Mr. Arrogant 2004 X XXXX
달콤한인생 A Bittersweet Life 2005
천군 Heaven’s Soldiers 2005 X X
야수와 미녀 The Beast And The Beauty 2005 X X
새드무비 Sad Movie 2005 X XXXX
웰컴 투 동막골 Welcome to Dongmakgol 2005 X XXX
무도리 Moodori 2006 X X
생, 날선생 Mr. Wacky 2006 X X
마이 캡틴 김대출 My Captain Mr. Underground 2006 X X
달콤, 살벌한 연인 My Scary Girl 2006 X X
구세주 Oh! My God 2006 X X
국경의 남쪽 South of the Border 2006 X X
괴물 The Host 2006 X XX
소녀X소녀 Girl x Girl 2006
싸이보그지만 괜찮아 I’m a Cyborg, but That’s OK 2006 X XXXX
미녀는 괴로워 200 Pound Beauty 2006 X XXX
기다리다 미쳐 Crazy For Wait 2007
좋지 아니한가 Skeletons In The Closet 2007
두 얼굴의 여친 Two Faces of My Girlfriend 2007 X X
동갑내기 과외하기 레슨 II My Tutor Friend 2 2007 X XX
무림여대생 My Mighty Princess 2007 X XXX
화려한 휴가 May 18 2007 X XXXX
용의주도 미스 신 Miss Gold Digger 2007 X XXXX
바보 Miracle of Giving Fool 2008 X XXXXX
1724 기방난동사건 1724 Hero 2008
순정만화 Hello Schoolgirl 2008 X X
아기와 나 Baby And I 2008 X XX
추격자 Chaser 2008
크로싱 Crossing 2008 X XXXX
미쓰 홍당무 Crush and Blush 2008
쉿! 그녀에겐 비밀이예요 Secret To Her 2008 X
원스 어폰 어 타임 Once Upon a Time 2008 X XX
좋은 놈, 나쁜 놈, 이상한 놈 The Good The Bad The Weird 2008 X XXXX
달콤한 거짓말 Sweet Lie 2008 X XX
과속스캔들 Speedy Scandal 2008 X XXXX
잘못된 만남 Santamaria 2008
불꽃처럼 나비처럼 The Sword With No Name 2009
그림자 살인 Private Eye 2009 X XX
이태원 살인사건 The Case Of Itaewon Homicide 2009 X X
7급 공무원 My Girlfriend Is An Agent 2009 X XXX
반두비 Bandhobi 2009 X X
정승필 실종사건 Jeong Seung Pil Mystery 2009
킬 미 Kiss Me Kill Me 2009 X XXX
부산 City Of Fathers 2009
청담보살 Fortune Salon 2009 X XXX
걸프렌즈 Girl Friends 2009
슬픔보다 더 슬픈 이야기 More Than Blue 2009
구르믈 버서난 달처럼 Blades of Blood 2010
육혈포 강도단 Grandma Gangsters 2010
의형제 The Secret Reunion 2010 X XXX
하녀 (2010) Housewife (2010) 2010 X X
꿈은 이루어진다 Dreams Come True 2010 X X

North Korean (조선영화)

Korean title Year Seen? Recommend?
백두산 B&W
과점을 바로 가기자 B&W
나무에 걸린 신호 B&W
천보산의 용사 B&W
북극성 B&W X X
그들의 교훈 B&W
기관사의 아들 B&W
느이집믄제 B&W
숨길 수 없는 정체 B&W
싸움의 한길에서 B&W
축보가 오른다 B&W
잊지못할 전우 B&W
관점을 바로 가지자 B&W
철길우에서 B&W
포병의 아들 B&W
혁명의 승리가 보인다 B&W
은빛날게 118호 B&W
그는 우리와 우리와 함께 있다 B&W
삼복더위 B&W
Bulgasari 1985 (C) X X
나의 아버지 C
가야 한 길 C
광주는 부른다 C
군당지도원 C
군인선서 C
그가 걷는 길 C
그는 대좌였다 C
금강의 세동서 C
금희와 은희의 운명 C
내 나라 C
만병초 C
명줄 C
비행사 길영조 C
빛나는 아침 (전,후편) C
사랑의 노래 C
사랑의 물소리 C
숲은 설레인다 C
여단정치위원 (전,후편) C
영생 (전, 후편) C
우리 새세대 C
잊을수 없는 나날에 C
전선길 (후편) C
철령의 대대장 C
평양 날파람 C
한 생명을 위하여 천리 C
해은동의 두가정 C
성새 (전,후편) C
영원한 청춘 C
더 높은 곳으로 C
참된 심정 C
혁명의 승리를 확신할때 C

Chinese hackers planning to wage war on K-pop?

All text below was lifted from here for convenience; go over and read the comments if you’re interested.  I will just say right now that I haven’t done any research on this but thought that it might be interesting to pass this along to the k-blogger community … Here’s an article about the situation.

Misc. I’m not among those hacking groups.

It’s been called 69 Crusade (June 9 Sacred War) ever since it was planned. A wide range of Chinese netizens have been profoundly angered by frenzy teen girls who are crazily after Korean pop culture(think Twilight, Miley Cyrus, Justin Bieber, whichever teen star you don’t like-Yeah a similar feeling), including moron hackers.

There’s news of stampede during Shanghai Expo on May 30 when around ten thousand fanatics of the Korean group Super Junior and singer BOA gathered to pick up some free tickets. According to their inside source on Tieba Baidu(think reddit slash , or facebook groups) there were five thousand free tickets. This was never confirmed and very soon the Expo Korean Pavilion had no more to deliver and a riot just happened.

here is a media coverage There are far more startling photos shared on renren.com(think Facebook). on shanghaiist, an editorial

Most netizens think of it as a disgrace, including the moron group on Tieba WOW(yeah there is a place for WOW, which has merely a hundred and eighty thousand registered users, making it the biggest Tieba of Baidu. There’s a culture surrounding it. But more on that later)

Because of the nationwide University Entrance Exam(think June SATs) would be held from June 6-8 the Crusade was planned on June 9. WOWers invited hackers who had once helped Baidu to hack back in Jan when it was hacked by an reportedly Iranian hacking group.(think google)

The story is kinda long and there’s no valid translation available yet. And I’m too lazy to act as the lousy translator here. The news should be up soon. I want redditors’ view on the organized illegal Hacking, which even spread to a neighbouring country. Reportedly(btw here ‘reportedly’ means reported by some non-governmental, authority not the state media), three thousand South Korean-based servers were hacked. Not even over night. Before dawn almost. There’s far more damage than I can articulate, some I have nevi heard of. Here’s an official quote from a hacking group which was posted before the fan site was hacked

本盟受WOW吧的同志委托,黑掉sj的韩国官网以及所谓音源官网
本盟与贵吧并无过节,但贵吧网友声称“有本事就去黑掉官网”
本盟对此技术性的挑战无理由不做个回应,6月9日后请拭目以待

I don’t really know anything about how music sites work in Korea but apparently they are said to determine a singer’s popularity. So that site had to be hacked. The official Korean Super Junior site was also hacked.

Basically the quote acted like a declaration. Because some fanatics challenged the hackers, claiming “only if they had the guts to hack the official sites”. The hackers felt obliged to prove their technical proficiency (understandable right?) so they did.

It was startling how many were involved in the incident. Some other mainstream, more decent(less moron-like) Chinese websites also joined the crusade, which was itself phenomenal(remember I said a culture around WOW Tieba, not subculture?) I’m personally thrilled to witness such things. However, I don’t feel I’m ethically correct, not this time.

*******Edit: there’s a paragraph missing in the original post. More on the stampede:

To those who were not on the scene it was quite mysterious as if it just happened spontaneously. It was most likely true that when a police officer blocked a girl’s way to run into the site, the desperate teen took off her tshirt and with only her bra yelled “Rape” to the police officer in order to get in.
They reportedly left a mess behind(face-losing or as they say), many severely injured. Many sources say a girl was killed on the scene; she was seen fallen down(there were so many ppl she was just pushed to the verge? Unimaginable) as thousands of people were busy getting in, thus causing the panic. Most netizens think of it as a disgrace, including the moron group on Tieba WOW(yeah there is a place for WOW, which has merely a hundred and eighty thousand registered users, making it the biggest

****** a link to Google news search hack super junior Well well well at least it is happening. The state media will be very slow…as usual

C.N. Blue – Love (사랑)

One of the songs I heard from Dream Concert which was pretty good …

10cm – 오늘밤은 어둠이 무서워요 (Tonight the darkness is scary)

Found another great song!

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