Future Secretary-General Shows Leg

[koganbot]

Look, how am I going to find time to write anything if I'm spending all my time watching Korean TV?

Background: on the East L.A. thread, I said,"But since I've pegged [Sunny] as a future President of South Korea or Secretary-General of the UN, or at least as the next Oprah, she really does need a command of English to fulfill my plans for her. Not so sure how her current dazzling blonde party-girl look fits my forecast, either. Not that I dislike the style, or think that the presidency shouldn't be held by someone who appears capable of bringing out the spirits and dancing a little jig at a moment's notice, but I don't believe that the voters or the Very Serious People who anoint candidates are ready to allow the most capable person in the room to look like that. (Assuming Sunny is all that. My estimate of her is based almost entirely on her tractor etiquette and the ease with which she's learned to handle potentially obstreperous chickens.)"

In response, Mat directed me to "Sunny making moves towards the goalposts you've set (context: pretend court where a real quarrel between two slightly troublesome boys has its seriousness taken out of it)," and he then linked us the following (he specifically linked 1m27s, which is where Sunny starts making moves [UPDATE: this is now a different embed; not sure where he'd have linked it. The TV company seems intent on quashing unauthorized uploads of this show, and I've therefore had to re-embed numerous times. Should this one go dead too, search the video-upload sites for episode 8 of "SNSD and the Dangerous Boys" or "Girls Generation and the Dangerous Boys."]):

I gather — from Wikip — that SNSD are quite seriously assigned to mentor several teenage boys, but of course while doing so they're supposed to be witty and entertaining and to draw viewers.

[EDIT: If you don't have time for the whole video above, I strongly, emphatically urge you — beg you — to watch Sunny's examination of Yoona that begins at 7:40.]

Comments

Empathy

[koganbot]

Not only is the seriousness taken out of the conflict, but Sunny and Yoona create a funny, nongooey way to express total empathy with the participants in the quarrel. I wonder how many actual lawyers are able to do that. But then, actual lawyers are trying to win.

Re: Empathy

[arbitrary-greay.livejournal.com]

Of course, Sunny has not only made the threat to throw people down the stairs, but she has also made the threat to throw the members over her leg, (possibly with subsequent spanking Kiss Me Kate-style) and the members seem to heed her, so even before IY we were calling her "SNSD's shadow power." Better suited to vice president than president.

Re: Empathy

[koganbot]

I remember when you first posted that interview. What stuck with me was that management refused to let them talk finances, and the SNSD women claimed not to know what they're due and what they get — which upset me, since they're role models, and what I envision for Sunny of course involves her not just taking a hand in a country's finances but working in the direction of a better distribution of wealth and a more intelligent regulation of markets, etc., rather than just looking cute and saying "Oh, we leave the arithmetic up to the guys."

The other thing that stuck with me was the sandals and socks.

Re: Empathy

[arbitrary-greay.livejournal.com]

Oh, Sunny already knows how to embezzle like a pro. Perfect vice prez.

But even assuming they have a better schedule than 2-hours-a-night T-ara, I wouldn't be surprised if their parents did the majority of negotiating. It was an uncomfortable situation for KARA when they came back from a Japan promotion cycle to find that four out of five of their group's parents had filed suit, with one of them quickly defecting back to the company afterwards.

Of course, in Sunny's case, there's no telling how deep she has her hand in the business considering her family connections. Her appearance on Brown Eyed Girls' Miryo's solo album was already a surprise.

I really liked what greywing said about the sandals and socks:
TaeYeon here is who catches my eye. She has that ability to come off sounding dorky and silly and thus somehow more genuine, when that itself is really like a deflection of getting at an unguarded answer. Like the whole "sandals with socks is a big no no" is just silly, but comes off as a real answer, and yet . . . not really? Because it doesn't actually offer much insight into anything except that really old men who are beyond the point of caring about their public appearance don't appeal to TaeYeon. XD This is what I mean by TaeYeon's skill.
I just find it hard not to see how diplomatic just about every answer sounds. I'll never stopped being impressed, but I've long passed the point of expecting to truly learn something new or--what I really want!--something ~scandalous~.

Re: Empathy

[koganbot]

But see, I don't want Sunny only to do well, I want her to do good, too, which I kinda think she does.

Thought the Miryo EP was a big bore, partially excepting "Revenger." I do like the sleeve, and mostly like her rap voice, though she doesn't altogether avoid that horrible tight-waisted, crotchbound tendency in Korean rap to sound in the throws of utterly appallingly sincere anguish.

Re: Empathy

[koganbot]

Oh yeah, and greywing for the win.

[askbask.livejournal.com]

Sunny, musical ver.

[koganbot]

Here's the vid he embedded on LiveJournal:

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

Soon-Kyu, is there anything you CAN'T do?

[koganbot]

h/t Mat

Re: Soon-Kyu, is there anything you CAN'T do?

[koganbot]

Here's the vid I embedded on LiveJournal:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cl04RZdnXw