07-05-2007, 07:13 PM
<!--QuoteBegin-Husky+Jul 5 2007, 06:19 PM-->QUOTE(Husky @ Jul 5 2007, 06:19 PM)<!--QuoteEBegin-->....Autumn, Winter... and Spring[/url] by "devoutly Catholic director" Kim Ki-Duk - a darling of western reviewers and cinearts - which carefully twists and darkens Buddhism and gives a corrupted view.
(But it's not as overt as in the HK action film "So Close" where the eye-catching accessories tell their own story: the heroines wear crosses around their neck and have a whole sin-salvation thing going in the plot; meanwhile, the main villain(s) we're supposed to be booing at, have a Buddha statue in the background. Nice try.)
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True. South Korean movies and soaps covertly promote christianity .
The south korean soaps are very popular in north korea (a CNN documentary on this was recently shown). Although the south korean programs/ series are officially banned in north korea, they somehow find their way into the homes of north koreans through an underground network. The nroth koreans are hooked on to the oppulence and wealthy and glitter and glamour of the capitalistic south korea, all to be found in the soaps serials. In many of these soaps, the south korean actresses are shown wearing crosses around their neck, and very often the camera closes in on the cross.
The christians in south korean soaps are always shown as the nice guys, and the non-christian korean as the villain. THis is akin to the Indian movies in the past (and perhaps even today) that always showed the christian character/ padre as the nice, compassionate guy and the hindu as the villain, possibly of the worst kind. The same strategy is used in south korea to paint the traditional character as superstitious, backward, and mean spirited, and the christian character as most rational, compassionate, generous, etc.
The north koreans are not just given a dose of capitalism through exposure to south korean soaps, but also a strong message of christian-ism - that is the wealth and opulence (and all that glitter and glamour) of south korea can be attributed ALL to christianity. That is, if the south korean society can emerge from era of superstition and darkness into the light, and become a wealthy nation, by adopting christianity, so can, and should, the north koreans.
(But it's not as overt as in the HK action film "So Close" where the eye-catching accessories tell their own story: the heroines wear crosses around their neck and have a whole sin-salvation thing going in the plot; meanwhile, the main villain(s) we're supposed to be booing at, have a Buddha statue in the background. Nice try.)
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True. South Korean movies and soaps covertly promote christianity .
The south korean soaps are very popular in north korea (a CNN documentary on this was recently shown). Although the south korean programs/ series are officially banned in north korea, they somehow find their way into the homes of north koreans through an underground network. The nroth koreans are hooked on to the oppulence and wealthy and glitter and glamour of the capitalistic south korea, all to be found in the soaps serials. In many of these soaps, the south korean actresses are shown wearing crosses around their neck, and very often the camera closes in on the cross.
The christians in south korean soaps are always shown as the nice guys, and the non-christian korean as the villain. THis is akin to the Indian movies in the past (and perhaps even today) that always showed the christian character/ padre as the nice, compassionate guy and the hindu as the villain, possibly of the worst kind. The same strategy is used in south korea to paint the traditional character as superstitious, backward, and mean spirited, and the christian character as most rational, compassionate, generous, etc.
The north koreans are not just given a dose of capitalism through exposure to south korean soaps, but also a strong message of christian-ism - that is the wealth and opulence (and all that glitter and glamour) of south korea can be attributed ALL to christianity. That is, if the south korean society can emerge from era of superstition and darkness into the light, and become a wealthy nation, by adopting christianity, so can, and should, the north koreans.