This is transcribed from the WSJ on dead tree pg. B1, so there’s no link.
The hottest Saturday night TV program in South Korea this season has featured a quiz pitting elementary school students from North Korea against kids from the south.
The show, called "Exclamation Point," looks like a milestone in North-South cooperation, but it is actually a triumph of skillful editing. It meldsfootage from a quiz show aired last year in North Korea with scenes shot in a studio in Seoul, to produce what looks , at first glance, like a head to head competition.
"Exclamation Point" is the latest in a string of South Korean TV shows and movies to portray Northerners as friendly, if a bit eccentric, while at times - critics say - glossing over unpleseant truths about the repressive Pyongyang regime. A recent hit film, for example, follows the comic adventures of two North Korean marines blown ashore in South Korea. As the pair desperately try to get home, they befriend a girl in trouble and rescue her by outfighting South Korean hoodlums.
I guess we should be thankful it was South Korean Hoodlums and not U. S. Marines.
These clucks are in for a bigger surprixe than the Germans when they get to reunite their country |