Talk:Culture of South Korea

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What is Noraeda? Is this an equivalent word for Karaoke? I'm a Korean but I've never heard of Noraeda. For me, if it sells liquors it's a Karaoke, if it doesn't it's a Noraebang.

I have no idea what "noraeda" is...a google search for 노래다 only gives things like "좋은 노래다," as in 노래 + 이다. The page history shows an edit by someone who wasn't logged in, has only made one other edit, and apparently didn't know what they were talking about; so I have removed "noraeda." --Sewing 16:05, 6 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Noraeda? Noraehada is a verb that means "to sing" (derived from the noun Norae which means song and Hada which means to do, Noraebang is a word that literally means song room with 'Norae' meaning song and "bang" meaning room. Also Korean noraebangs to serve alcohol and is the equivalent word for Karaoke (not Noraeda). --Rufus 14:31, 13 September 2005

Somebody might like to visit my article on Kim Jong-Chul (Kim Jong-Il's son), and see the footnote on a Korean poet of the same name. He might be worth an article. Adam 09:23, 6 Mar 2004 (UTC)

He now has one. Kokiri 10:13, 6 Mar 2004 (UTC)

As you both know by now, I've moved the abovementioned articles to Kim Jong-chul (political figure) and Kim Jong-chul (poet) respectively. Thanks for the heads up regarding the poet, Adam: we now have 2 brand new articles for the price of 1! --Sewing 15:56, 6 Mar 2004 (UTC)

For the so-called Korean Movie Database in external links, it is maintained in Hong Kong, written in Chinese, and doesn't seem to represent much of Korean movie culture and trends. Suggest fix it with http://www.nkino.com/movies/ , http://movie.naver.com/ or http://movie.daum.net/ --PuzzletChung

Removed this section:

Modern Korean culture

- - Dramatic changes in culture in the Republic of Korea after the 1990s with startling changes in politics, post-Shiri films, and an opening of a Korean cyber-culture are discussed here. A central shift is a reinvention of Korean culture that ceased blindly copying American culture and values, to bring in a new Korean original creative perspective merging technology and tradition. - - This involves a new generation of Korean products: comics, novels, animation, a resurgence of Korean opera and Korean old-style classical music with new age percussion influences; conceptual art, performance art, and the rediscovery of Korean art traditions through the Insadong art gallery area in Seoul. It also includes new attempts at breaking the rules in film, longer more complex stories with ensemble acting, and a new aesthetic of originality and cultural honesty. - - It also chose different venues for creative activity: instead of the WW2 machine age era of nightclubs and traditional social culture around heavy drinking, the post-modern generation moved on to pc-bangs, a Korean word for cyber-cafes, where bubble tea and coffee and high energy drinks were served. Alcohol has never driven the computer world, and a generational shift from the machine age post WW2 culture to fast-thinking videoscreens happened quickly in Korea; and has also been more inclusive of women's contributions especially as unique individuals. - - To some extent as well, the post-modern generation in Korea are the first generation raised without fear of impending war; and this has resulted in a more open optimistic cultural liberty. As well this is the first generation to have explored the world by back-packing, internet chat rooms, and learning by their own experience on their own terms rather than following the rote procedures of Korean educational training that shifted uneasily between imitating 1940s hard machine-age unworkable American models and the intense demands for technological sophistication forced by the powerhouses of asia. Sophistication won.

Basically, I thought it was a bit too light on actual details and a bit too heavy on editorialism (hard machine-age unworkable American models, anyone?) Plus, the entire content of this section is pretty much covered (minus the editorial bias) in other sections. I also have my doubts as to the originality of the content of this section... it certainly looks to me like it was copied from somewhere. At any rate, if someone wants it back in, feel free to add it back... I won't remove it a second time.

Cleanup Tag

No reason for cleanup given, article seems to be in decent shape. Removing tag. PhatJew 20:25, 28 February 2006 (UTC)

Influences

Some stuff on Halyuh (the Korean wave) would be nice. Nissi Kim

Agreed; see Korean wave for some information that could be summarized here. -- Visviva 04:23, 12 May 2006 (UTC)

Wow

The article says:

Supporting the Korean film industry have been strong government controls against copying and bootlegging and piracy, which have allowed the film industry to bring out many films, and make a profit and still have very strong DVD and aftermarket sales.

Sounds like advocacy from a trade group.