[KS] Re: Olympics/the list

[Robert C. Provine]

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Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 14:17:48 +0900
To: korean-studies at iic.edu
From: Henny Savenije <adam&eve at henny-savenije.demon.nl>
Subject: Re: Olympics/the list

At 11:52 PM 9/26/00, you wrote:
>Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 10:42:52 +0200
>From: Frank <ruediger.frank at rz.hu-berlin.de>
>Subject: Olympics/the list
>
>Dear list,
>
>inspired by the discussion on the TV coverage of the Olympics in SKorea I 
>have watched our German television a bit more closely under this aspect. 
>At least all the results are published. What about those highlights on 
>Korean TV?

Actually I have been watching at the moment too after this discussion
and 
up till now, there is nothing which strikes me as odd or ethnocentric,
all 
the sports are covered (I think) not only the ones in which Koreans 
participate. Of course they are a bit more highlighted, but that doesn't 
look odd to me. When I discussed this with my students, one of them
said, 
that she was watching a race (? didn't ask what kind of) in Japan and
the 
Japanese were 7th and the Koreans 2nd. She wanted to see the first (and
of 
course the second) racer (by lack of a better word) but the Japanese 
television paid only attention to the 7th team. I think that is indeed 
ethnocentric or too nationalistic.

BTW, the baby is born. 3.9 kg 52 cm.

Henny (Lee Hae Kang)
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