With the caption:
Girls dressed as Paris Hilton celebrate the Korean airing of MTV reality show "Paris Hilton's My New Best Friends Forever" in Myeong-dong, Seoul on Thursday.
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Unfortunately, Korean TV routinely airs some of the worst the US has to offer. I'm reminded of something Western Confucian wrote recently in a comment to one of his posts:
Am I supposed to feel proud to see McDonald's and rap music here in Korea? Instead, I'm doubly ashamed, for my countrymen who export this garbage and for the Koreans who eat it up.
Couldn't agree more. I'm disappointed in both the culture that produces this crap and the one that feels compelled to imitate it.
"우리는 패리스 힐튼" the headline says:
Really? Well, I'm very sorry to hear that.
One interesting thing to note, and I'm sure the pop culture bloggers will be more informative in this area than me, is that while Korean celebrities are held to pretty high moral standards, you have a woman like Paris Hilton regularly on TV and endorsing Fila Korea.
If you haven't yet seen it, go see what South Park has to say in their episode "Stupid Spoiled Whore Video Playset."
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As long as they don't get neck-lengthening surgery to look like Paris, then I don't really care.
Is the show really called "Paris Hilton's My New Best Friends Forever"?
It's not as big as the movie 10억's English name fail, but definitely a "you've been so-called practising this whole English plural/singular thing since you were young enough to walk to the hagwon" fail.
The series is "Paris Hilton's My New BFF":
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_Hilton%27s_My_New_BFF
I guess the confusion is b/c BFF is usually Best FriendS Forever. So far as I can tell Korean MTV also just uses BFF, but I guess the paper wanted to try and write it out.
http://www.mtv.co.kr/tv/parishilton/
"우리는 패리스 힐튼"??
'Scuse me while I go get my camcorder.
The one thing that Korea had long before Americans arrived in Korea was the stupid spoiled whore.
STILL denigrating McDonald's? Jesus Fucking Christ, open your mind!
They all look alike to me.
:)
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