This is my third time to hear your funny joyful talk show^^

Just by listening your talking, some of idea hit me and made me think of the reason why we don’t have that spectacular SF program on TV. Even if it’s just a guess, I hope it can help your to understanding below reason in the point of mine.

I am a big fan of “Lord of the Ring”, one of my top 5 movies I’ve ever seen by now.

I think our society couldn’t have time to cultivate the concept of the universe by now. Only it have been past
less than a hundred years after we face with western science culture. During the long 5 hundred years of Chosun Dynaty’s seizure of political power, they ruled the Korean people with Confucianism. The political power of them result in cutting the root of dreaming idea of future with an obscurantist policy. For an example, the Confucianist didn’t welcome the invention of Hangul because they thought they didn’t hope and need to cultivate their people learn the writing and reading in Character. So the genius lower class of society who had possibility to dream the widen world couldn’t have chance to open their dream as well as the higher class were prohibited by the force of their society’s brainwashing restraint.

Although we aren’t ruled by that kind of government, but it still have infulence to our national character I guess. I assumed most of common person couldn’t over the line within the pressure from inner and outer forcement living with them.

Once or several time I had seen Star Track from AFKN, the US Army Broadcast system as a teenaged little girl
Because I was a maniac of TV program. After closing of Korean TV, only I can see the movie in AFKN after a old man’s talk show around 2 or 3 am. It was so curious but I couldn’t understand any words so I just watched that late night movie with the acting from their nonverbal cues. ^^; some of them I found it assumable, I could saw them with my loose surmise.

The second reason I thought is the Korean’s delayed advancement of Broadcasting system. They don’t have any intest to invest so much money and riskable challenge to those huge project involed with the larger staff.

Your Star Track chatting remind me a bood of title “Cosmos”, a scientific nonfiction novel that mentioned about the universe origin or process of scientific notion and theory I had never been contact at that time. Have you heard about it?

Anyway I’d love to see some SF drama or movie as a great lover of SF and imagible story in Korea, too.

Great Talk! and I enjoyed the whole listening.

Have fun and see you next time. ^^;

I agree with a lot of what you guys said about the potential benefit from Sci-fi in Korean society. I wonder if 이소연 would have received a more enthusiastic treatment in a Korea where science fiction was popular. I recently told a Korean friend that I read a lot of sci-fi, and he had a grimace on his face as he told me of how his mother’s profession as a school biology teacher had turned him off to science.

The modern/post-modern thing was just in response to something I had read in Michael’s blog. We’ll call it the difference between unbounded enthusiasm for progress, like the Nazi’s eugenics or “From the Earth to the Moon”, and caution and introspection with respect to potential mistakes resulting from that progress, like the Non-Proliferation Treaty or “Speakers for the Dead”. I guess it’s not a very important distinction for the genre.

Anyway, have you watched ‘지구를 지켜라’? It may be the first work of Korean post-modern sci-fi that gained mainstream exposure. It blends themes of dissatisfaction with Korea’s rapid development and distrust of the establishment with fear of the alien outsider.

The point of my first comment was just to introduce myself and contribute a bit to the discussion. It was a very good episode. I liked it and have no complaints. I can’t really add useful comments to the other (interesting and enjoyable) episodes I’ve heard so far, since I know so little about Korea

Just to clarify on 24, I don’t know if it had an effect or not. It’s not my idea. I ran into it recently on the Internet and thought it worth mentioning. Anyway, it never occurred to me that non-positive portrayals would sway voters. When I saw that we were starting out with different assumptions, I clarified what I meant. I wasn’t changing the meaning.

GI Joe and He-Man had very similar formulas in different settings.

I’ve really got to see Plato’s Stepchildren again, but didn’t Nurse Chapel end up giving birth to a child that was one quarter Vulcan? How do you explain that? (kidding)

The 24 reference I made was just a little parenthetical remark I threw in, because I thought it was interesting and sort of related to what you said about Janeway. Having said that, I have to disagree with “Nobody said anything about a positive portrayal”, because I did. That was my whole point.