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Post by puppy on Mar 5, 2009 17:39:39 GMT -5
HOWCOME...
When a car picks up speed they show the tachometer not the speedometer?
They never drink tap water?
They drink it from a cup not a glass?
They may serve it in a glass but on a tray instead of just handing it over? (It always looks like it's going to slide off.)
They ask for it when they're upset and gulp it down?
They respond to a question or a statement with the person's name? (Hosae: I know you like me, Saebyeok. Sabby: Hosae-ssh. or, MIL: Why did you do that? Yuri: Omma.)
The women take off their shoes but fall into bed and pull the quilt over their heads in their street clothes - dress, jacket, jewlery, stockings, etc.?
Men always carry women on their backs not in their arms?
They carry food in those cloth-wrapped bundles that look like Arabian tents but give presents in shopping bags? (Miok to the family, etc.)
No girl, to my memory, has ever been kissed in this drama? (Subin, Soyeong, Sabby, Yuri, Yunhui)
I know a lot of this is custom but custom develops for a reason.
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Post by soapygrams on Mar 5, 2009 18:16:28 GMT -5
I do not have the actual knowledge regarding some of your observations, however, I would say that: Water is often given to people who are upset; feel faint, need to "catch" their breath. That happens here in the USA and elsewhere. It is used as a way for a person to concentrate their strength on something besides whatever is bothering them at the moment. It makes a person concentrate on holding the glass, sipping or some people, gulping, and then swallowing the water. In many of the K-dramas, the water is kept on the table in some sort of container; I've even seen it in what I thought was a tea pot. There also are scenes where the container is kept in the fridge. People drink from cups, glasses, or even bowls. Using a tray to carry water or any other beverage to a person is so that if the contents accidently gets spilled, the spillage will be on the tray and not on the floor or the person receiving the cup/glass. I use trays all the time in my place and I'm not Korean LOL As for carrying the woman on the back; that is a PREFERRED way to carry a person larger than a small child. It actually is easier on the back and allows the carrier to go further and faster than carrying a person in front only supported by the carrier's arms. Try carrying a 20 lb bag of potatoes in front of you, then put it into a sack and carry it on your back. You'll soon agree that the back is the correct place to carry a weight. Any soldier can tell you that LOL - Think BACK PACKThese are just my opinions and observations; and yes - there have been kisses on screen. They just do not show all the up close and sort of naked stuff you see on so many of the American shows. It seems that there is a lot more respect shown to the people by keeping the bedroom business in the bedroom with the door closed. . . Besides, that makes viewers use their imagination more creatively, don't you think so? ;D
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Post by door60 on Mar 5, 2009 18:49:58 GMT -5
Good ones, puppy!! The quirk I am very curious about is when they take the water out of that little compartment in the fridge. I don't think I've ever seen a fridge like that here -- have you ? And, I do think it's funny how they often lie in bed with all their clothes. When they come home from work, they are always so careful to change into lounge wear, and then at other times, they wrinkle all their clothes with a lie-in !!
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Post by ginnycat5 on Mar 5, 2009 20:51:52 GMT -5
As for carrying the woman on the back; that is a PREFERRED way to carry a person larger than a small child. It actually is easier on the back and allows the carrier to go further and faster than carrying a person in front only supported by the carrier's arms. Try carrying a 20 lb bag of potatoes in front of you, then put it into a sack and carry it on your back. You'll soon agree that the back is the correct place to carry a weight. Any soldier can tell you that LOL - Think BACK PACKI have experience with this. When DD was 3+, I rocked her to sleep one night, after not doing it for months (years, even?) and carried her to bed in my arms and got a ganglion in my wrist. Ouch!
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Post by ginnycat5 on Mar 5, 2009 20:58:45 GMT -5
HOWCOME... When a car picks up speed they show the tachometer not the speedometer? I think because it takes less screen time to show the action. A tachometer jumps immediately, but the speed increases much more slowly. I don't know if they're saying "You're embarrassing me" or "I don't want to talk about it" or "Yeah, you caught me" or what.
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Post by jungnam on Mar 5, 2009 21:12:27 GMT -5
I have an answer to one of your questions, Tap water in Korea is not drinkable, I mean it's not advisible.
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Post by dodgerman on Mar 6, 2009 19:34:11 GMT -5
Good post, Puppy. I was wondering about the sleeping in the clothes bit myself. Also, I love when they are driving how they just swerve to the curb when they are arguing in the car. I started a post about the kissing a while ago. You never even see any of the married couples kiss in the privacy of their rooms. There was an ep a long time ago with Subin in the car with Hosae and I was screaming at the screen--Just kiss her.
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Post by Soju on Mar 7, 2009 9:57:25 GMT -5
I have an answer to one of your questions, Tap water in Korea is not drinkable, I mean it's not advisible. This is often true in the USA, too. In Pheonix, AZ, you see bottled water EVERYWHERE. The tap water comes from the Colorado River in the Northern part of the state, and picks up a quite unpleasant taste going overland in the aqueduct. I am always extremely thankful I live next to one of the largest bodies of fresh water on the Earth.
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Post by puppy on Mar 7, 2009 16:55:04 GMT -5
Some great answers! Thanks.
It's funny, dodgerman, how kissing in public (or on TV) isn't done but drinking sure is!
Hanja and her lawyer daughter in MDU have those little doors in their fridges, too, Dorrie.
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Post by dodgerman on Mar 7, 2009 18:18:06 GMT -5
Maybe the fridge was designed at Lohas by Subin, Sabby and the 3 Stooges.
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Post by door60 on Mar 7, 2009 20:34:01 GMT -5
Most of the fridges in these shows have these little compartments that store the water picher. And also, they always leave a little tray with cups on the table. It's cute. It makes you wonder how much of this stuff is a slice of life, and how much is just television.
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Post by puppy on Mar 9, 2009 18:10:57 GMT -5
SO right about the stooges, dodgerman! That could be another K-drama quirk. Whenever there's an office, there are always one or two weird (and wired) employees (High As The Sky, etc.) who leap around and pump fists and say "Kajah!" (or whatever) a lot.
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Post by ginnycat5 on Mar 10, 2009 18:18:05 GMT -5
SO right about the stooges, dodgerman! That could be another K-drama quirk. Whenever there's an office, there are always one or two weird (and wired) employees (High As The Sky, etc.) who leap around and pump fists and say "Kajah!" (or whatever) a lot. Do they say "fighting" or maybe "hwighting"? (I'm thrilled to know that "kajah!" means "Let's go" but I don't think I could have remembered it myself.)
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Post by brooklyn on Mar 11, 2009 23:03:28 GMT -5
Oh gees, it was Kajah all this time? I kept saying Aja lol.
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Post by ginnycat5 on Mar 12, 2009 19:48:25 GMT -5
Oh gees, it was Kajah all this time? I kept saying Aja lol. 가자 is what I got from Googling. Umm, now what? 동. 가게 하다 Here's another one. still lost, I am. I hear Kajah. I don't know what it really is, though. Okay, I finally got up and looked in my pocket Korean dictionary; it's kaja. I could never hear the difference between mother and grandmother. Now that I know they're different words, sometimes I can almost hear halmoni instead of omoni.
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