Saturday, September 19, 2020

impressive, touching, inspiring, intimidating

With thanks to ROK Drop for highlighting this video of a British guy who speaks excellent Korean and who, with a team of friends, makes documentary vids about everyday life in Korea.  His Korean skills are at a level I can only aspire to, but after watching him, I'm motivated to apply myself more to learning the language.  I also enjoyed the quiet, unadorned style of the video below, which simply shows what it shows without any pretentiousness.  The end result is impressive.  This is the polar opposite of garbage like "Eat Your Kimchi."


 



2 comments:

motorrad said...

That was incredible. I have always felt bad for those 할머니. There are more than you would think in rich, modern, Korea. I'm not a fan of the Welfare State but Korea should do more for the old aged. People that woman's age built modern Korea and to see them ignored, forgotten, and left to eek out a subsistence living saddens me. I saw a lot of people like her in small towns during my ride from Seoul to Busan.

Kevin Kim said...

Yeah, it's sad that more isn't done for these people, whether by the government or by regular fellow citizens.