FACT – American productions are always filming in places that are not where they are suppose to be. Case in point is CSI-Miami, which is mostly shot in Long Beach and Santa Monica, CA. Early on in the production sometimes people could see mountains in the background, there are NO mountains in the the whole state of Florida. How about sunsets over the ocean? There is no oceans in Miami where the sun sets in, but in CSI-Miami land they have the sun setting only where it could be rising. Most of our shows are shot in California and not the actual places they are portraying.

Here is to hoping the Korean Wave continues to submerge the U.S. more and more so Americans can learn more about the truly wonderful land called Korea!

James Bond series "Die Another Day"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_Another_Day

Koreans got angry and held protests in front of major theaters.

http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/20021…

Koreans were not satisfied with the movie because……

"the film's bad guys is a North Korean".

"the movie depicts South Korea as a developing nation".

"an American officer issues orders to the South Korean army as if Korea was not an independent country".

etc etc

I believe even if Hollywood makes any good film about Korea, it could not satisfy Korean's inflated pride.

I would have to say Hollywood has been much more kind to Japan than Korea. A lot of that had to do with Kurosawa's influence from all his films that have been seen in the US. Korean films are slowly starting to penetrate the US market but not nearly as widespread as Japanese films. Plus you look at the number of big Hollywood films with a Japan theme, Lost in Translation, Last Samurai, Memoirs of a Geisha, Notes from Iwo Jima, etc.

I can't think of one Hollywood film with a Korean theme outside of some of the really old Korean War films and MASH if you want to consider that a Korean themed series.

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That is a good idea, maybe I will bring this picture out of retirement sometime.