Koreans decide to make a drama about the Troubles - hilarity ensues

Foxhound38

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdrplyolhR0

This is a clip from Ireland: episode 2, in which our heroine has a flashback to Northern Ireland where everyone is inexplicably American for some reason. Her adopted brother is suddenly and tragically killed in broad daylight by some of the snazziest Loyalist paramilitary members I've ever seen (I like to think of them as the the Ulster Disco Association in this clip) as are her salt-of-the-earth parents. The UDA, not wearing balaclavas or the like, then ask her if she is a member of the IRA. When she replies that she isn't, the discoloyalists let her on her way, secure in the knowledge that she won't report this killing to the IRA, RUC or indeed anyone else. Then she gets given out to be a Korean chip-van owner for mindlessly bashing her head against his van, which she does for fcuking ages...

Also the family seemed to spend their evenings knitting and playing the harp... as ya do!

Weevil

I can't even work out what decade it's set in.

Legs.Eleven

What's the craic with the old cars?? That's hilarious!

tommyboy2222

Was that Westlife who murdered her family ?

Nabber

Still better than Fair City

stoneill

Looks like Donegal.

flyton5

RTE will probably pay millions for the right to remake it.

KeithM89

Its almost as good as the time Jessica Fletcher visited Ireland.

Riddle101

Haha, gotta love political incorrectness.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQJrovKgrTw

The Backwards Man

Has to be a parody, the Koreans are excellent filmmakers.

vitani

Nabber wrote: »

Still better than Fair City

Where everyone would have just acted annoyed, before Leo Dowling brings out the guitar.

FloatingVoter

I'd swear thats Ben Bulben in the background while she's cycling down the road before they get stopped. Something going on in Sligo we need to know about ?

MrPain

xXx lik dis if u cry evrytym xXx

FloatingVoter

Sorry to double post - here is linkage

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ireland_%28TV_series%29


its not a fake

GalwayGuy2

They missed a perfect chance to use the expression, "Go on, get on your bike"

MRnotlob606

thats gas

Weevil

The bog road looks to good to be in Ireland.

Toto Wolfcastle

That Wikipedia page is the most entertaining read I've had in a long time.

Foxhound38

FloatingVoter wrote: »

I'd swear thats Ben Bulben in the background while she's cycling down the road before they get stopped. Something going on in Sligo we need to know about ?

If it is, then why did they come all the way over here from Korea to film it, and yet cast a load of yanks as Loyalist Paramilitaries?

Foxhound38

FloatingVoter wrote: »

Sorry to double post - here is linkage

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ireland_%28TV_series%29


its not a fake

That is a fantastic find!

Wikipedia Article wrote:

She tends to cook Korean food while in a good mood, and Irish food while in a bad mood.

She's learned much in her time here!

vitani

Bobblehead Panda wrote: »

That Wikipedia page is the most entertaining read I've had in a long time.

I had to read the first line about her brother twice: 'A drifter with no sense of fashion or morality...'

Foxhound38

vitani wrote: »

I had to read the first line about her brother twice: 'A drifter with no sense of fashion or morality...'

Are they sure he isn't the Irish one?

markomuscle

This reminded me of this piece of nonsense.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMujuZpWwJg

KeithM89

I just found where to download all 16 episodes. It'd be a crime not to do it, right?? :pac:

tosspot15

No better than the thousands of western films and series taking the absolute piss out of asian people.

But by god if they dare try make something about Ireland!

Foxhound38

markomuscle wrote: »

This reminded me of this piece of nonsense.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMujuZpWwJg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Va5_rn3vG3A

Ruu

She would get shot in the knee caps for taking that Cornetto! :eek:

BillyMitchel

The Backwards Man wrote: »

Has to be a parody, the Koreans are excellent filmmakers.

Agreed but a lot of their normal TV is absolute tripe. Koreans seriously love dramas though. More so than us and the Brits with eastenders and the like.

ordinary_girl

JAYSUS. That's too much, is it weird that I kinda want to see the other episodes too? Gas!

Weevil wrote: »

The bog road looks to good to be in Ireland.

No potholes, so it's in no way believable.

LordSutch

MRnotlob606 wrote: »

thats gas

cs gas?

mewe

FloatingVoter wrote: »

I'd swear thats Ben Bulben in the background while she's cycling down the road before they get stopped. Something going on in Sligo we need to know about ?

That clip is hilarious. It's definitely not Benbulben though!

WindSock

The only Paddy thing in that clip are the rice fields.

Trollhättan

Riddle101 wrote: »

Haha, gotta love political incorrectness.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQJrovKgrTw

Is that a camel @ 1:00??

biketard

Some Korean intern was obviously tasked with looking up "gangsters" in Google Images and came up with something from the Al Pacino era.

Frankly I'm disappointed no violin cases were used.