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Here’s how you advertise in Korea

Mr. Dew — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 10:55:00 +0000

A Korean ice cream commercial. Its pretty insane but neat at the same time.

Super Cool Korean Ice Cream Commercial CF

Funny: Korean man sings Mariah Carey’s “Touch My Body”

Mr. Dew — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 11:28:15 +0000

Put me on the floor, play with me some more. Korean native Dong-won Kim singing Mariah Carey’s song “TOUCH MY BODY”

Touch Dong’s Body – Rendition of Mariah Carey’s “Touch My Body”

Oh man, I can’t finish the video.

Mixing James Bond theme with Mozart

Mr. Dew — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 16:43:14 +0000

Igudesman & Joo performs theme of James Bond and mixed with Mozart. I say it’s brilliant!

Mozart Bond

Here’s another performance by the same duo:

I will survive

To see upcoming performances of Igudesman & Joo “A Little Nightmare Music” visit their website. Great humor.

What happens when you rise late?

Mr. Dew — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 00:28:02 +0000

This appears to be an advertisement for Dutch insurer Delta Lloyd Groep. It mocks North Korea a little. Quite funny:

A late riser in North Korea

Funny: Korea’s Rain dances with Colbert

Mr. Dew — Fri, 09 May 2008 15:01:28 +0000

Rain shows up at the studio for an after hours dance-off with Stephen. Colbert says, “Hey Rain, let me know when Korea lifts the embargo on balls.”

Kim Jong Il: I’m an Internet Expert

Mr. Dew — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 09:05:50 +0000

Now Kim Jong Il calls himself an internet expert. Funny chap. I believe he is the only one who can afford and is using the internet in North Korea. And it certainly brings whole new meaning to what they call “dedicated access”.

(Our Dear Leader Kim Jong Il!)

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Il called himself an ”Internet expert” during summit talks with South Korea’s president this week, a news report said Friday.

The reclusive leader made the remark after South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun asked that South Korean companies operating at an industrial park in the North Korean city of Kaesong be allowed to use the Internet, Yonhap news agency reported, without citing any source.

”I’m an Internet expert too. It’s all right to wire the industrial zone only, but there are many problems if other regions of the North are wired,” Kim told Roh, according to Yonhap.

Kim reportedly asked former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright for her e-mail address when she visited Pyongyang in 2000. A North Korean general cracked a joke about President Bush during high-level military talks with the South earlier this year, saying he read it on the Internet.

The North’s leader is also a big fan of South Korean movies and TV dramas, and Roh gave him a bookcase of South Korean DVDs as a gift this week.

Source: New York Times

Internet is so useful these days. Sure it has many side effects but the advantages outweighs them.

Kim Jong Il is know to drink US$650,000 worth of Hennessy and Cognac in just a year.

[via Digg, Image source: The Rad Report]

New MMORPG – Lunia, Record of the Lunia War

Mr. Dew — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 11:23:36 +0000

Ahh, there’s a new MMORPG for everyone. Lunia, Record of the Lunia War starts its open beta today. I looked at the videos, browsed through some screenshots. The games looks attractive and promising. The difference with this MMORPG is that it is kinda action arcade style which is something new in MMORPG. Everything that’s new always welcomed.

So if you’re feeling a little adventurous, you can give this game a try. Check out the in game video. Below is a screenshot of the game:

You can download the game here.

I am afraid that I don’t have time to venture into an MMORPG at the moment. I’ll just post it and perhaps someone would find it fun to play.

World leader in GunBound kidnapped; didn’t surrender his mobile

Mr. Dew — Sun, 22 Jul 2007 02:39:31 +0000

World leader in GunBound kidnapped and he is not surrenderring his user account. How strong willed. Maybe he knows the kidnappers are just a bunch of childish kids – which they are by the way.

Gang Kidnaps Gamer to Get Password Using Fake Orkut Date

An armed gang of four kidnapped one of the world’s top RPG gamers after one criminal’s girlfriend lured him into a fake date using Orkut, Google’s social network. After sequestering him in Sao Paulo, they held a gun against the victim’s head for five hours to get his password, which they wanted to sell for $8,000.

The group leader had a gun against his head all that time but the guy didn’t say a word. At that point, the crooks gave up and decided to let him go. The brazilian police then caught the four suspects, aged 19 to 27.

According to the police, the captive is the world leader in GunBound, a turn-based RPG-style multiplayer online game. Developed in South Korea, in this artillery game you get more experience points, offensive and defensive capabilities depending on your skills during battle, as well as money to buy more weapons, armor and all kinds of gear for your multiple avatars. You can only play with one of your avatars each time, but all of them belong to a single account.

The game looks to be quite popular, so the four gangsters decided they could make some quick cash if they kidnapped him to steal his user. Their plan: use one of the criminal’s girlfriends, called Tamires, to get him into a date using Google’s online social network Orkut, which is also extremely popular in Brazil. After contacting and seducing him, she told the GunBound wizard to meet her in a shopping mall.

But she never appeared.

Translated source via Gizmodo

Gunbound is a game that is somewhat like Worms 2 where you aim and shoot in a 2D environment at your enemies. It’s quite popular in Singapore back then but most people moved on to play games like MapleStory and others already. The game has Korean origins as do most online games. I used to played a little and I didn’t fare too well in it. I use the Mammoth I think… Or was it.

Super Kim

Mr. Dew — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 10:40:58 +0000

This is a parody of Kim Jong Il.

Extra 3 – Super Kim

I’m not sure what language is this. It sounds like German language. A translation would be great. But from what I can understand, Kim love Cognac. Everyone’s hungry and he seems blissfully unaware. Then he trades nuclear weapon for Cognac. Great work Kim!

Strange toilet sign found in Korea

Mr. Dew — Sat, 07 Jul 2007 06:27:53 +0000

Saw this at Flickr – a really strange toilet sign found in Korea.

The sign is spotted in Seoul, Korea. Ahh, we all know that the guy is merely doing some chin ups, nothing wrong with that.

Have you guys noticed that Singapore’s toilet signs are getting more and more creative? The toilets are too. They’re all trying to be unconventional and I just can’t wait to see those Plaza Singapura toilets installed in our neighborhood hawker centers.

YouTube and LG partner to roll out phones

Mr. Dew — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 08:58:19 +0000

YouTube and LG decides to partner to come out with phone, not sure if it would be successful. I’m not really fond of LG phones.

Youtube, SKorea’s LG agree to develop mobile phone

SEOUL (AFP) – South Korea’s LG Electronics said Tuesday it has signed an agrement with YouTube, the world’s biggest video-sharing website, to develop a mobile phone which can operate the service.

LG Electronics said the proposed model will enable users to upload, view and share video clips or user-created content (UCC) online freely without using computers.

“LG Electronics will unveil the mobile handset that fully supports the YouTube service for the first time in Europe in the second half of this year,” the South Korean firm said in a statement.

LG Electronics, the world’s fifth-largest mobile phone manufacturer, is also stepping up its partnership with Google, the world’s largest Internet serach engine which owns YouTube.

It began selling third-generation (3G) handsets called “Google phones” with software installed for directly using the Google service, in Europe last month.

Source: Yahoo! News

If they really do come out with this YouTube LG phones, I will mock at it for 1 week at least. Anyway, the market is just not ready for videos being served via mobile phones I think. Phones need to be a lot cheaper and the phone subscription need to be made cheaper too. That way, all the new-generation kids would go get cheated and purchase these YouTube phones. The students would find it fun… If they have the money.

And Daryl and I were talking about the LG logo, we don’t like it a lot.

…

Me: LG has a frigging smiley that doesn’t look like its smiling. it looks like it’s winking at you but it really is just a terrible attempt to put alphabets ‘L’ and ‘G’ into a logo

D: i always think it’s freaky. bcos i imagine a real person w an LG head. but i always imagine freaky things.

Me: i don’t wish to imagine that, it’s nightmarish

The LG logo is the one with the red colored head.

Stephen Colbert does Korean music video

Mr. Dew — Fri, 11 May 2007 18:57:20 +0000

Stephen Colbert is the newest Korean sensation. Rain got nothing on him.

Stephen Colbert Korean Music Video

Lyrics for Stephen Colbert’s new Korean song

You know you’re my girl
So get into my Hyundai
You know you’re my girl
We can eat some Kim Chi

We can get together
Like Haweye
And Hot Lips
He’s singin’ in Korean
He’s singin’ in Korean
He’s singin’ in Korean
He’s singin’… in Korean

And then
we’ll do something else
What else is Korean

He’s singin’ in Korean
He’s singin’ in Korean
He’s singin’ in Korean
He’s singin’… in Korean

Stephen Colbert bust out some Korean dance moves. It’s very hilarious.

Warrant reveals no games in Cho Seung Hui’s posession

Mr. Dew — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 17:44:22 +0000

Cho Seung Hui (Ã¬Â¡Â°Ã¬?Â¹ÃÂÂ¬), the troubled young man whose nightmarish assault on his fellow students will most likely be studied for years to come, doesn’t seem to have been someone who had any involvement with video games in his recent history.

The claim of video games causing Cho to commit this massacre is thereby inaccurate. Everytime such thing happens, someone would just blame computer games. I always thought that it’s something that the big media companies thought up since they are not producing or publishing any games.

Cho killed 33 students in Virginia Tech, including himself. Most of the people I know can’t pronounce ‘virginia’ correctly and it sounded like some other word in the dictionary.

Funny Kissing commercial

Mr. Dew — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 17:52:18 +0000

Here’s a funny one from Korea.

DHL – Kiss

Would you dare to sign your “package” before you find out what’s coming with it now? Or of course, you can always send via UPS.

An advertisement every Tuesday

007 in North Korea

Mr. Dew — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 07:44:58 +0000

North Korea’s 007, a currently very popular short movie by some Chinese netizens, mocks Kim Jong Il and his secret agent buying Hennessy XO wine from Chinese black market.

*North Korea’s 007 (part 1)*

You can watch all the episodes with this YouTube playlist.

Watch out for part 3 where the Chinese Mafia sings and dance to the tune of Michael Jackson’s Beat It.

[via BoingBoing]

*North Korea’s 007 (part 3) – Chinese Mafia dancing*

Review: Gwoemul [The Host] (2006)

Mr. Dew — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 09:46:01 +0000

I just watch The Host (Korean title: Gwoemul), a Korean film that involves all the actors and directors I don’t know. It’s directed by Joon-ho Bong. I do not watch much Korean films but this one is said to be really good.

(Poster for The Host or Gwoemul.)

So I sat through the 2-hour movie wishing it was just an hour. The Host attempts to incorporate several genres. It has action, comedy, science fiction, thriller and possibly more. The actors are quite good, but I am not really comfortable with their facial expressions sometimes, they seem too exaggerated in a couple of scenes.

The plot is almost terrible. The Host is based on an actual event, I shall quote directly from IMDB.

Did you know?

The event described in the beginning of Gwoemul is based on an actual event. In February 2000 in a US military facility located in the center of Seoul, US military civilian employee Mr. McFarland ordered to dispose formaldehyde into the sewer system leading to Han River despite the objection of a Korean subordinate. Korean government attempted to prosecute Mr. McFarland in Korean court but US military refused to hand over the custody of Mr. McFarland to the Korean legal system. Later, a Korean judge convicted Mr. McFarland in absentia. Public enraged at the Korean government’s inability to enforce its law on its own soil. In 2005, nearly five years after the original incident, Mr. McFarland was finally found guilty in Korean court in his presence. He never served the actual prison sentence, however. No sighting of mutant creature has been reported in Han River, yet.

Source: IMDB

The chemicals caused a mutant and led to this gigantic mudskipper-kinda creature. It’s huge and it grabs the main character’s daughter. Believing that his daughter is still alive, the family went to look for her in hopes of saving her.

What is commendable is the computer graphics. It is one of the better ones in an Asian film and it actually didn’t look that fake. It is overhyped, and I have to admit that I’m disappointed. For bad plot and surprising graphical achievements, I rate the movie 3 out of 5 stars.

Korean sexy noodle commercial

Mr. Dew — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 09:37:25 +0000

Misleading but clever! You have to see it to understand why.

I heard that Taiwan has really nice instant noodles, hahaa…

An advertisement every Tuesday

snake//burger

Mr. Dew — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 15:32:35 +0000

This looks freaky. The Koreans love the Burger King Triple Whopper. The burger looks kinda too big for me. Not my kind.

*Burger King – Eat like snake!*

[Direct link]

An advertisement every Tuesday

Colbert sucks up to North Korean dictator Kim Jong il

Mr. Dew — Tue, 17 Oct 2006 02:28:00 +0000

In order to lessen a chance for a nuclear attack on United States – or rather Stephen Colbert himself – Colbert tries to be nice to Kim Jong il. I’m sure Kim would be most pleased.

[Direct link]

mouse//click

Mr. Dew — Mon, 09 Oct 2006 19:33:23 +0000

*Trabajolico/Workoholic*

[Direct Link]

Poor girl! Click click! Antidote for workaholics. That’s in Korean I think.

An advertisement every Tuesday