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Korean Sociological Image #20: Sex Sells

Wed, 10/14/2009 - 07:17 — James Turnbull

Yahoo Korea Cheoum Cheorom Cool UEE

Pity the hapless commentator on hidden themes in advertising. Not only is he or she often accused of overanalysis, but men in particular can be labeled as positively perverted in seeing sexual symbols in otherwise inanimate objects.

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“Korean Women are Sexually Conservative”

Fri, 10/09/2009 - 22:39 — James Turnbull
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Sex, Sensibility and the Bottom Line: Evolving Images of Women in Korean Soju Advertising

Mon, 09/14/2009 - 19:05 — James Turnbull

Cheoum Cheoreom Cool Breasts Buttocks 168

Watching one of Lotte’s commercials for its new Cheoum Cheoreom Cool (처음처럼 쿨) soju dozens of times…as one does…then many thoughts come to mind, but that it is being effectively marketed towards women isn’t one of them. Yet weren’t they the main reason low-alcohol soju brands were launched in the first place?

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Korean Sociological Image #18: Sexualizing Caucasian Women

Sun, 09/13/2009 - 20:21 — James Turnbull

Sexist Korean advertisment caucasian women(Source: Busan Metro, 02/09/09)

An image that simply begs commentary. But what is noteworthy about it exactly?

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No Skin Required: Healthy Images of Couples in the Korean Media

Sat, 09/05/2009 - 11:36 — James Turnbull

Han Ji-hye So Ji-sub Bang BangMuch as I’d like to always present a sophisticated and hard-hitting persona on the blog, I’d have to admit that the following two commercials from Bang Bang (뱅뱅) are very sweet and endearing, and put big smiles on my wife’s and my faces.

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Kim Daul in the Nude: An Unlikely Feminist Icon (NSFW)

Mon, 08/31/2009 - 22:35 — James Turnbull
( Source ) No, I’d never heard of her before tonight either. But the following statement from Korean supermodel Kim Daul (김다을), posted on her blog the day after she posted a picture from a recent nude photoshoot for British fashion magazine i-D, is making big waves at the moment: seriously korean ppl stop bullying me because u know what i [...]
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Korean Sociological Image #17: Deconstructing the Ass Dance

Sat, 08/29/2009 - 23:09 — James Turnbull
A both compelling and rather confusing marketing campaign from Samsung, difficult to avoid on the Korean internet at the moment: The dancer is actress Han Hyo-joo (한효주), very popular because of her role in the drama Shining Inheritance (찬란한 유산), which finished last month with record ratings. The products being advertised are the VLUU Wink, which [...]
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Korean Gender Reader

Sun, 08/23/2009 - 20:51 — James Turnbull
( Source: Ningin) 1) If You’ve Got it, Flaunt it? The Potential Mainstreaming of Assertive Female Sexuality in Korea As the live performance below demonstrates, even sans the sex scene of the music video, the dance routine for the Brown Eyed Girls’ (브라운아이드걸스) Abracadabra (아브라카다브라) remains compelling viewing. Spoken from the perspective of a heterosexual male of [...]
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Giving the Korean Consumer What She Wants?

Tue, 08/18/2009 - 12:32 — James Turnbull
No attempt at analysis this time: most readers are probably well aware of why I would choose to highlight this photoshoot of Shin Min-a (신민아) and Jamie Dornan from the September edition of Elle Korea here! If not, then see here for starters, but if you’re looking for something more academic, then consider this post [...]
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Everything You’ve Ever Wanted to Know About Korean LGBT Issues…

Thu, 08/13/2009 - 14:50 — James Turnbull
Being at 8:30am on Sunday morning, then my presentation at the ICAS 6 Conference in Daejeon last weekend wasn’t exactly well attended, but at least I did get to meet Professor Douglas Sanders of the University of British Colombia, a noted author on human rights and LGBT issues, and as it happens also the first [...]
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Tamna: A Radical New Korean Drama?

Tue, 08/11/2009 - 23:13 — James Turnbull
With thanks to reader Ezra de Leon for passing the news on, a new Korean drama called Tamna the Island (탐나는도다) appeared over the weekend, and for readers of this blog especially it is noteworthy in many important respects. The most obvious is for having a foreigner in the lead role, a 24-year-old French model named [...]
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Korean Sociological Image #13: The Kiss

Wed, 07/29/2009 - 10:46 — James Turnbull
It’s amazing how quickly things can change in Korea sometimes. Granted, you’re unlikely to see an eye-catching kiss akin to the above on primetime TV at the moment, but at the rate things are going then it won’t be too much longer. It was only at the end of May that Shin Min-a (신민아) for instance, [...]
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