The Winter Sonata Boom / The Kanryu Wave

drainer@mpinet.net drainer
Sun Jan 16 04:42:10 EST 2005


 No, they've had K-1 during previous years.

One thing about the Korean boom -- has anyone else noticed that the
advertisements featuring "yonsama" are no longer as prominent as they were
say... 4 weeks ago? There are virtually no more ads of him in the train,
almost all of the ads for the chocolate are gone...

-df
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "M Arnold" <ma_iku at hotmail.com>
To: <KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu>
Sent: Sunday, January 16, 2005 4:34 AM
Subject: Re: The Winter Sonata Boom / The Kanryu Wave


> I spent New Year's Eve with a few film/video industry folks. They kept
> flipping the TV between the K-1 and Pride fighting matches, occasionally
> checking out what was happening on the Kohaku. I actually wanted to see a
> little more of the singing--is it just me or does the Matsuken Sanba sound
> like "Copacabana"?--but they, and I after a while, got really into the
> fighting. I don't remember watching K-1 on New Year's Eve in the past in
> Japan. Is this a new thing?





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