[KS] reprehensible journalism from Arirang TV

[CedarBough T. Saeji]

If you do upload it again, now that it's been taken down, please send out
the link. I definitely want to save it for the future. I just really wonder
how this made it to the air. Didn't anyone in their office say "hey guys,
this might not fly so well?"

On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 5:13 PM, Stephen Epstein
<Stephen.Epstein at vuw.ac.nz>wrote:

> Dear Tobias,
>
> That's odd, as the site is a community discussion board that has fan
> comments on the Arirang TV clip; nothing untoward about it at all that I can
> see, although there may be a warning for it the way that some commmunity bbs
> have in place and that might have snagged your browser. In any case, the
> YouTube link should be fine. If people wish to respond to Arirang an easy
> way to do is to leave a comment on their YouTube channel page:
>
> http://www.youtube.com/user/arirangworld
>
> Stephen
>
>
> ________________________________________
> From: koreanstudies-bounces at koreaweb.ws [koreanstudies-bounces at koreaweb.ws]
> On Behalf Of Tobias Lehmann [Tobias53 at gmx.de]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 23, 2011 7:33 PM
> To: Korean Studies Discussion List
> Subject: Re: [KS] reprehensible journalism from Arirang TV
>
> Dear Stephen,
>
> the first link from the livejournal does not work out. I get a permanent
> warning that this website is X-rated...:-)
>
> Greetings,
> Tobias
>
>
> -------- Original-Nachricht --------
> > Datum: Wed, 23 Mar 2011 13:40:31 +1300
> > Von: Stephen Epstein <Stephen.Epstein at vuw.ac.nz>
> > An: "Koreanstudies at koreaweb.ws" <Koreanstudies at koreaweb.ws>
> > Betreff: [KS] reprehensible journalism from Arirang TV
>
> > Dear all,
> >
> > I don't usually send out links to the list, but the below piece from
> > Arirang is one of the most absolutely reprehensible items of journalism
> that I
> > ever seen and deserves wide circulation, as it offers an opportunity to
> > combat the attitudes it reflects. The piece takes examples of female pop
> stars
> > in Korea with "healthy" legs (yes, "healthy" is their word) but tries to
> > suggest that "healthy" (i.e. anything but very nalsshinhada) is, in fact,
> > bad. The promotion of extremely unhealthy body images and eating
> disorders is
> > the logical outcome here.
> >
> > The piece is getting hammered on YouTube (it's only been up a day so far
> > and running 15 to 1 dislike to like, maybe more, a ratio I've never seen,
> > and the comments have all been appropriately scathing.). In any case, for
> > those of you who ever have to teach anything about body image or plastic
> > surgery in Korea, this will be eye-opening for students; you may want to
> > download it as I suspect it will be taken down soon. Hopefully this piece
> will get
> > wide attention (my own aim in sending this out) and Arirang will be
> forced
> > into issuing a high-profile apology
> >
> > http://community.livejournal.com/omonatheydidnt/6227567.html
> >
> > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZaPs7bMH2Vc
> >
> > Cheers, Stephen
> >
> >
>
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