"You are a doggy poo."

Koreans are obsessed with poop and rear ends, everyone knows that. Give ten of your students a wad of clay and eleven of them will make an poop swirley cone. Not sure why you'd go around giving out clay, but whatever, poop is in the news again after a local newspaper broke it down by nationality, and created a nice illustration to show which people poop the most.



In Korea, African is a nationality, and all of them wear loin cloths and chuck spears. Zen Kimchi has compiled some examples of poop obsession, but if we're going to broaden to asses in general I might suggest the Turtles video for "Sing la la." Pretty tame compared to what you'll find on BET, now that I think about it.



It's also necessary to direct your attention to the greatest example of all, a short animated film called "Doggy Poo" (강아지똥). It's based on a book with the following plot:

After being "created" by a dog, Doggy Poo meets various living and inanimate things. No one wants to be his friend, and Doggy Poo becomes sad because he believes he is worthless and has no purpose. However, after a plant grows out of the ground and tells him that she needs him to grow into a flower, Doggy Poo realizes his purpose and he becomes absorbed by the flower. After being absorbed by the flower, Doggy Poo lives "a happy life".

I've made a few half-assedhearted attempts to find the book, but haven't come up with anything. It seems like a nice story, though, one I'm sure Confucius would enjoy. One of my old schools had each of the pages painted onto the wall outside the library, so I had a chance to read through some of it. It really is a cute little story. I'm sure you can find the full-length film on the internet somewhere, but for the time being here are a couple of clips. The first one is of the main character being born:



And this one is a music video with a nice little song played over it.