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[telophase]

...because I woke up throwing up this morning and decided it was a sign that God meant me to stay home from work.

Have been playing with the TiVo. It has decided that I like documentaries and suggested just about every documentary for the next two weeks, so I spent some time carefully rating all of them so it would, at least, stop suggesting military ones and focus on archaeology and anthropology.

I have also discovered, through the magic of TiVo Suggestions, that I actually get at least one random inernational channel. TiVo and Wikipedia both claim that channel 645 is Al Jazeera, an Arabic-language channel, but there seems to be a Korean soap opera with English subtitles on right now, so I believe it's changed. I'm about to print out Wikipedia's list of Dish Network channels and see which ones I get.

I love being able to get random Korean soap operas on my TV. In the past ten minutes, I've discovered that nobody calls each other by name, but that a young couple live in the husband's parents' house and the mother-in-law hates her daughter-in-law, and someone else is going down a list of eligible men trying to figure out which one she should marry but rejecting them all while her sister tells her not to touch her stuff.


ETA: Aha - noticed the channel ID tag finally. :D "KBS World" it says. Must go look it up.

ETA2: The soap opera, now over, was called "Men of the Bath House." And there is now another show on with no subtitles that features a peppy Western man and a peppy Korean woman standing in front of some sort of traditional Korean house in the country and talking in an exceptionally peppy manner to a very old man in traditional dress.

Comments

[laleeloo.livejournal.com]

Al Jazeera also began to broadcast in English not too long ago, last week? The week before?

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Interesting. I like international programming, even when I don't watch it. It makes me feel global. :D

[tammylee.livejournal.com]

AHhaha! oops! Darn having two LJs!!

[badnoodles.livejournal.com]

I get a couple of Asian language channels on basic cable. Much like I'll watch telenovelas late at night when I can't sleep, I'll watch Chinese (I think) cooking shows to fall asleep on the couch.

[rilina.livejournal.com]

Korean soap operas? I am so jealous. I have been reduced to reading recaps on messageboard because I couldn't keep up with the downloads. KBS is one of the three big Korean networks; the others are MBC and SBS. The one I would really like to see right now is Goong (Palace), which is based on the manhwa of the same name.

Though I find it odd that nobody calls each other by name. I guess it would depend on who was talking to who, though.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

It took them a while, but by the end they started saying names - but pretty much only when referring to other people not in the room, not each other, so I have no idea who's who.

[rachelmanija.livejournal.com]

There is nothing worse than waking up throwing up, except perhaps unexpectedly waking up in excruciating pain. Sympathies!

Also, I eagerly await your recaps of incomprehensible Korean shows.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Poking about has revealed that the Korean channel is the only international one I get that's not Spanish (I get a Chinese news channel dubbed into Spanish, which is very very odd and very very cool at the same time).

I am investigating downloading video from the TiVo to my computer - since I have them on a network now, I should be able to do so. If so, I can even screencap incomprehensible Korean shows. :D

[chibicharibdys.livejournal.com]

Korean soap operas = win.