sofa-m (sofa_m) wrote in linguaphiles,
2013-03-13 17:08:00

North Korean video about American Life..

Hi all,
I'm sure almost everyone here has see that video where a supposed North Korean announcer (female, dubbed into English by a male voice) talks about how Americans eat birds and drink coffee from melting snow water

Can someone here either confirm that translation as legitimate or just tell us it's a fake and the English does not really correspond to to what is being said in Korean?

I'm not sure I can post links in here by community rules, but you can watch the video by googling anything with "Korea", "Americans" "bird" "snow" "TV"

thanks
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artkouros

March 13 2013, 23:14:52 UTC 2 months ago

Fake, according to Slate.

sofa_m

March 14 2013, 09:07:33 UTC 2 months ago

thanks - I saw a lot of sites with the re-post of the video, but no real discussion on whether it's true or not
slate is the only one

sofa_m

March 14 2013, 09:07:50 UTC 2 months ago

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2013/03/13/_how_americans_live_today_north_korea_targets_american_poverty_in_propaganda.html

carlyinrome

March 13 2013, 23:21:03 UTC 2 months ago


We do eat birds. Chickens and turkeys, mostly.

philena

March 14 2013, 05:47:32 UTC 2 months ago

Yeah--and where does our tap water come from? Aquifers and rivers that in many places (e.g., most of California) are fed by melting snow!

sorrowis_stupid

March 14 2013, 12:48:46 UTC 2 months ago

It's true, one of my favorite beers even lists "snowmelt" as an ingredient instead of water!

k0dama

March 14 2013, 16:10:27 UTC 2 months ago

I immediately had suspicions about this video when I was presented it.
The speaker of the video speaks in a South Korean dialect,
which is unusual for a "north korean propaganda video".