Comments on American Comedy, Korean Trouble

Piece of Meat was the best fringe theater in Seattle, maybe they'll come home.

Dude, we need to get the Korean-American community and the US Embassy involved in this.

I'm actually surprised that some of the teachers who have been in-country for over two years seem genuinely stunned that the government would respond like this. The South Korean bureaucracy exists in a thin-skinned state of denial at a level the Bush administration can only aspire to emulate. There are also some cultural issues here that are best addressed by an actual Korean, but what I see is a stunning display of cultural ignorance from one side and an outrageous, petty reaction from the other.

Would someone (LGSS, an "actual Korean," or anybody else) care to fill us in on what about the performance provoked such a strong reaction—enough to sell out the house and get detained by the police?

Oh, fine. I suppose I deserve that for multitasking while typing.

I agree with GITA. This is actually something we should get our representatives involved in. I haven't heard from McDermott since the election, he and Cantwell should be all over this.

Brendan, if you have Chris's email addy, send it my way, let's get together and put some political pressure on our politicians to put some political pressure on the Koreans.

I'm starting to spread the word too, I'd appreciate if someone (Slog? Stranger?) posted/printed the relevant contact info so we can start putting that pressure on.

Piece of Meat have A LOT of friends in this city, we'll pull for them.

Hang in there guys!

-Karl

Piece of meat theater used to be Seattle`s best fringe quadromundosycho theater group untill they left.never did I see such realistic performances. simply amazing,and highly entertaining
the world was not ready and now we see the korian are not ready for p.o.m. top man Chris. please give your support and talk to who ever you can about this. we can not let Chris and his friends sit in some ding dong dark cell because of some paranoid rice eating Korians. Arik.

Howdy from beautiful South Korea, the Land of the Morning Calm!

It's great to see the comments of support, guys.

As for as what's going on here, it's just wait and see, for the moment. I'm not in jail, but I am facing getting fucked off from this place and my very nice job I have now. The cops are wrapping up their investigation, and passing it along to the Prosecutor and Immigration, who will then levy fines and/or deportation orders. Or we could be warned and let off. We don't know for certain, but they definitely want to intimidate us.

I'll keep posting here as things develop. Please check out my blog as well, as I post things there first.

Thanks!

CT

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