I’ve gotten on more than one occasion from students that I look like this guy Sam Hamington. After a bit of searching I found a YouTube clip of this Korean show where they have all these Korean speaking non-Koreans on a panel talking about cultural differences and stuff. Sam is in the clip sitting in the front. The Nigerian guy is explaining how they greet someone of importance. The other guy says “Do you mean the Police?” Everyone then laughed. And I laughed too, because *gasp*, I understood.

Could it be? I’ve come to a point in my Korean language speaking career that I can watch TV?

I kind of have this plan in the back of my mind to become famous in Korea. Because being famous here is being normal elsewhere and you don’t have to deal with all the bullshit. I figure I could end up on this TV show, or if I was real famous I could be on X-MAN with my favourite Korean celebrity, Chae Yeon.

This show XMAN, by the way, is this game show with celebrities. Some famous for other reasons, and some famous because of game shows. There’s two teams and they do a whole bunch of challenges, all the while there’s one person who’s the ‘XMAN’ sabotaging their own team’s efforts. It’s pretty popular and one of the only things I watched on television during my first 3 weeks in Korea…mainly because I think the girls are gorgeous.

This particular game is called ‘Ofcourse’. They’re supposed to diss eachother or say things that would be embarassing for them to say ‘ofcourse!’ to. But the rule is they have to say ‘ofcourse’ without cracking up ..or something.

Anyways, an episode of the with subs, starring my own Chae Yeon.

March 21st, 2007 | Life