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Chewie
@chewie@mammut.gogreenit.net  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

We've just been watching "Beyond The Bar", an entertaining lawyery #KDrama: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beyond_the_Bar

The #ProductPlacement in it is so blatant, it's insane!
They labour over some coffee-flavoured sweets, a Japanese restaurant, and some electric skin-zapping beauty thing in multiple episodes.
None of it is relevant to the story line.

We watched another one recently where they were pushing some self-parking car during a parking scene, that also had no relevance to the story line, but in this particular series it's on another level!!

I'm glad we don't allow this bollocks on stuff produced in the UK.

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Whoosh
@whoosh@techhub.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

@chewie

I much prefer the product placement - sometimes, if it's so blatant, it's even funny - to commercials interrupting the story.

They have to get the production money one way or the other. My vote is for obvious PP. 😃

#kDrama

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Chewie
@chewie@mammut.gogreenit.net replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

@whoosh oh, it was definitely funny. I was taking the piss for ages afterwards, talking about products in our house in view of our home CCTV cameras and annoying my other half 😜

It did cheapen the whole experience though, I feel.

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EllenInEdmonton :mstdnca:
@EllenInEdmonton@mstdn.ca replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

@whoosh I really enjoyed one show about producing a drama because we got to "sit in" on the talks with the companies that wanted PP. They had to really stretch a lot of the time to figure out how it would happen. Cars and beer can just be there with obvious brand names, but Kopiko is always a laugh. Subway is my least favourite because it activates my gag reflex. So much delicious food being consumed in one series, and then, those awful, overlit scenes with a table full of trash in front of the characters.

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hanktank61
@hanktank61@NerdJoy.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

@whoosh @chewie
Kdrama before 2012 started spreading through non-official channels . That was the only way to watch it outside SK. Full copies from what aired, including commercials.
Right at the supreme moments interrupted by it: The same leads in the drama advertising pizza, or newest phone. Kind of funny was that.

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