generaldu
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Post by generaldu on Feb 24, 2005 20:35:00 GMT -5
sorry, guys. I'm in NY but I rent my korean videos at the local korean video shop. So I can rent AOW if I want but of course there would be no subtitles. NY has a local channel that shows dramas with subtitles and I also have dish network that features some dramas with subtitles. But I don't want to be dependent on TV to dictate to me what I want to watch. I can understand the (for the most part) modern dramas but the historical ones I would need a lot of help. Medieval Korean is very hard to understand for me. I and my family watch the local Korean language channel (Channel 17) in NYC but we have no Korean friends (nor any Korean enemies that we know off) and don't know where to rent the tapes(or dvd,vcd,etc.). Could you steer us in the right direction on this, moreshige, and give us an idea where AOW can be rented in the NYC area? My wife has visited some of the Korean shops in Manhattan, but partly due to the fact that she's Black, there is a sense of mutual bewilderment (perhaps I'm euphemising here) that interferes with communication between her and some store personnel she has encountered. We figure Flushing might be a good bet but we're not that familiar with the shopping strips over there. We would be ecstatic if we could get rentals for AOW. Leave it to a bunch of conniving 12th century Korean warriors to bring the races together!
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Post by Maalii on Feb 24, 2005 21:35:50 GMT -5
sorry, guys. I'm in NY but I rent my korean videos at the local korean video shop. So I can rent AOW if I want but of course there would be no subtitles. NY has a local channel that shows dramas with subtitles and I also have dish network that features some dramas with subtitles. But I don't want to be dependent on TV to dictate to me what I want to watch. I can understand the (for the most part) modern dramas but the historical ones I would need a lot of help. Medieval Korean is very hard to understand for me. Hmmm, I've never checked the local Korean video shops and I would suspect there are some around here in SF (I recall seeing one near the the place I get my car fixed). If there are AOW subtitled videos, I'd love to see the episodes I missed. Owing to not catching the show from the start and station problems I missed many of the early episodes and really didn't get the show regularly until a few episodes before Ui Bang's finale. Then I had another big gap late (another station crash) that cost me all of Ui Min's regime, except for his good bye in 127.
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Post by moreshige unlogged on Feb 24, 2005 23:12:18 GMT -5
I and my family watch the local Korean language channel (Channel 17) in NYC but we have no Korean friends (nor any Korean enemies that we know off) and don't know where to rent the tapes(or dvd,vcd,etc.). Could you steer us in the right direction on this, moreshige, and give us an idea where AOW can be rented in the NYC area? My wife has visited some of the Korean shops in Manhattan, but partly due to the fact that she's Black, there is a sense of mutual bewilderment (perhaps I'm euphemising here) that interferes with communication between her and some store personnel she has encountered. We figure Flushing might be a good bet but we're not that familiar with the shopping strips over there. We would be ecstatic if we could get rentals for AOW. Leave it to a bunch of conniving 12th century Korean warriors to bring the races together! As long as there is mutual repect between different cultures here in America I'm all for promoting korean drama. Well in NY, there are so many places that rent out korean videos. But for obvious reasons, korean video shops are geared towards koreans. So you won't find many that has shows with subtitles in them. The one I rent from is from Brooklyn and they don't have any subtitled dramas. These video shop owners don't know there are non-koreans who are extremely interested in korean dramas. I suggest you go to one and directly show them your interest...ie. tell them how you got interested in them in the first place. I'm sure they'd be mildy impressed. You know it's really all about supply and demand. If there is enough demand from non-korean fans then maybe these shop owners will go out of their way to provide you with subtitled dramas. But if you don't mind the absence of subtitles these rentals can be really cheap. They range from about $1 to $1.50 per tape and usually you can have them for several weeks without incurring any late fees. I guess in this case in pays to be korean because there seems to be a mutual trust system working here. Too bad you don't have any korean-american friends but I can tell you that many of the younger korean-ameicans don't watch korean dramas anyway. Some of us also face the same sort of barriers of not understanding korean. And that's why you see the many subtitled shows out there. Originally, they were intended for second generation korean-americans who don't know the language. I guess I'm the minority here in this forum since I'm korean.
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Post by seven stars on Feb 25, 2005 10:48:23 GMT -5
As long as there is mutual repect between different cultures here in America I'm all for promoting korean drama. I guess I'm the minority here in this forum since I'm korean. Yeah, that's an ironic twist isn't it? By the way Moreshige, all you have to do is rent the first few episodes of AOW, and I think you'll see what we were getting at.
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Post by moreshige unlogged on Feb 25, 2005 11:35:06 GMT -5
Yeah, that's an ironic twist isn't it? By the way Moreshige, all you have to do is rent the first few episodes of AOW, and I think you'll see what we were getting at. I think I'll try renting AOW. BTW, what I find more ironic is that my korean-american friends talk more about the latest american shows and movies than any korean production. But lately, even my overly americanized korean friends are talking about movies like "Tae guk gi" and "Old Boy". It just shows how much korean movies/dramas have come a long way.
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