西洋오랑캐

I’ve been watching a lot more Korean television programs as of late (perhaps because I can now understand them a little bit), and I have a new favorite television show. This week I have seen a program entitled 아색기가. The show is awesome to say the least! It’s a combination of soft core Cinemax style porn and Saturday Night Live (only it’s not live). So I have caught two episodes of this comedy-porn hybrid (would that be “pomedy” or “corn”), and I can say I’m duly impressed. Each episode is made up of several shorter skits that combine sexy situations and comedy (with very little nudity). In the episodes I’ve seen there has been countless bikinis and lingere, yet only one set of bared tits, and they were being covered with hands. There are several reasons I like this show (beside the scantily clad Korean ladies that is).

이선정 (Lee Sunjung) star of 아색기가 (A-sek-gi-ga), in action.

The first being that aside from cartoons, children’s shows (like Korean Seasame Street), and insane games, this is one of the few shows I can understand. The second reason I like this show is that unlike some other Korean dramas this show teaches some useful phrases (it was here I learned the useful verb “카섹스하다”). The third reason I like this show is the fact that when I was watching this show, with my girlfriend (which is awesome in its own right), and inquired who one actress (who had been in several scenes was), my girlfriend without hesitation proclaimed, “Oh she’s Lee Sunjung!” I was stunned, so I asked, “How do you know soft core porn actresses?” To which my girlfriend proclaims, “Oh before this she was a gag woman (it’s not a porn term…in Korea that use “gag man” and “gag woman” to refer to comedians).” How awesome is that?! That would be like Molly Shannon or Ana Gasteyer leaving comedic acting to become the next Shannon Tweed. You have to love the irony in that.