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

Foxhound38 · 27-09-2013 05:39PM #1

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 · 27-09-2013 05:57PM

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

Legs.Eleven · 27-09-2013 06:03PM

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

tommyboy2222 · 27-09-2013 06:08PM

Was that Westlife who murdered her family ?

Nabber · 27-09-2013 06:09PM

Still better than Fair City

stoneill · 27-09-2013 06:13PM

Looks like Donegal.

flyton5 · 27-09-2013 06:18PM

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

KeithM89 · 27-09-2013 06:22PM

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

Riddle101 · 27-09-2013 06:27PM

Haha, gotta love political incorrectness.

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

The Backwards Man · 27-09-2013 06:28PM

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

vitani · 27-09-2013 06:34PM

Nabber wrote: »

Still better than Fair City

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

FloatingVoter · 27-09-2013 06:34PM

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 · 27-09-2013 06:37PM

xXx lik dis if u cry evrytym xXx

FloatingVoter · 27-09-2013 06:37PM

Sorry to double post - here is linkage

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

its not a fake

GalwayGuy2 · 27-09-2013 06:40PM

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

MRnotlob606 · 27-09-2013 06:42PM

thats gas

Weevil · 27-09-2013 06:47PM

The bog road looks to good to be in Ireland.

Toto Wolfcastle · 27-09-2013 06:50PM

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

Foxhound38 · 27-09-2013 07:19PM

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 · 27-09-2013 07:22PM

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 · 27-09-2013 07:23PM

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 · 27-09-2013 07:30PM

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 · 27-09-2013 07:30PM

This reminded me of this piece of nonsense.

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

KeithM89 · 27-09-2013 07:34PM

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

tosspot15 · 27-09-2013 07:34PM

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 · 27-09-2013 07:34PM

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 · 27-09-2013 07:38PM

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

BillyMitchel · 27-09-2013 07:39PM

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 · 27-09-2013 08:13PM

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 · 27-09-2013 08:17PM

MRnotlob606 wrote: »

thats gas

cs gas?

mewe · 27-09-2013 09:07PM

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!

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

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