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Brainwashed by soaps

2014-02-23 11:54:34

(China Daily) By Matt Hodges

 

Lee Min-ho, The Heirs Kim Soo-hyun, My Love From the Star Zo In-sung, That Winter, The Wind Blows

For the record, this guy is not handsome. From his face to his fashion sense, it's just all wrong. And Chinese women can't get enough of him.

According to a press release issued by Ctrip on Feb 10, South Korea has been the No 1 destination for outbound travelers from Shanghai for the past three months. No one knows how many of these were "medical tourists", but Chinese immigration officers are apparently having a harder time matching returnees' faces to their passport photos.

I can't even head to Family Mart anymore for some respite from this Korea worship because the stores have all transformed into overseas colonies of Koreana: Soju, prawn crackers, seaweed, banana milk, yakult, fried kimchi, melon soy milk. The fact that I like and buy most of these products is beside the point.

What was the point? Oh yeah. Korean guys: They're not perfect.

I mean, admittedly, Rain was pretty cool in Ninja Assassin (partly because he had zero dialogue). Choi Min-sik also killed it-and everyone else-in Oldboy. And come to think of it, Lee Byung-hun was excellent in A Bittersweet Life, even if his face looks more plastic than my credit card.

I also used to have a platonic man crush on Jung Woo-sung.

So I guess the point is: Korean guys are pretty badass in movies, but who wants to live in a world where women worship the way they're presented in TV soaps, which is to say, as androgynous robotic vampires?

It's also worth remembering that Psy's stage name is short for Psycho. Now what does that say about Korean guys?

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