In my previous post, I mentioned that Koreans are trying to offer better shows for little children to grow up watching. I'm relieved that Korea is realizing, even if it's not maybe directly, that little children these days are growing up watching stuff on T.V. that may be more appropriate to view when they're older. I'm not just referring to the extreme cases of making-out or sex scenes on T.V. A fellow (Korean) church member of mine has two little boys, the oldest being age 5 and the youngest 2, and in their family, she teaches them to talk nicely. Such as saying "please" instead of just demanding for the ketchup to be passed, and she teaches them to talk nicely in both English and Korean. Now when she took her two boys to Korea last year, she was delighted to see her oldest boy learning more Korean but it disappointed her that he was learning all these not nice phrases/words. Korean kids these days do not talk nicely. They just demand the other kids to get out of the way instead of saying it a nicer way.
It never, never, occurred to me that Korean kids all talk like grown ups, according to her. And it's true, they grow up hearing lines from dramas and well, dramas involve older actors and actresses being dramatic, and so these kids learn to talk like them. Now, this is all a massive deal, it's too much of the Korean culture and has been for a long time for Korean kids to all of a sudden change the way they talk. But it's nice to step out of the box and see that hey, these kids are all barely potty-trained and yet they talk like their a bunch of grown-ups. You may be picturing a bunch of thumb-sucking kids swearing like they've lived for a good amount of years, but that's not what I mean. The Korean language is comprised of formal and informal and while you're talking formally, you can still be pushy when you talk, and that's the kind of tone that little Korean children talk with.
Plus, more and more Koreans say, "Kids these days can handle this" and by "this", I mean, stuff on mass media that is on the fine line of being inappropriate. This unfortunate thing is happening in America as well, with the increase use of sexual appeal and technology, kids are encouraged to grow up faster. But back when I was just a little kid, on "Korean " T.V., there were plenty of age-appropriate shows that I could watch that taught good morals for little children. But then over the years, for some odd reason, the once immensely popular children's dramas started to be in decline, leaving only regular dramas, and Korean animations have always been rare. So there has been a shift here, now, when it comes to some program for children, it's always some kind of Barney-type show for the really little ones, and then dramas. There's no middle ground. What are kids in elementary school supposed to grow up with? Oh, right, they can watch dramas that are all identical with each other or flip on the music shows, which are fun, but do not quite give them something valuable to grow up with.
So am I glad that Koreans are finally getting the fact that the future generation of Koreans need something better to grow up with? Yes. They have been so deprived! And it makes me almost giddy that the broadcasters have been trying to bring back children's dramas and now their trying to be successful with fully Korean animations. Now the Korean animators really should be funded, and like I said in my blog post about children's dramas, the broadcasters should really watch and learn from the popular children's dramas from the early 21st century.
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Plus, more and more Koreans say, "Kids these days can handle this" and by "this", I mean, stuff on mass media that is on the fine line of being inappropriate. This unfortunate thing is happening in America as well, with the increase use of sexual appeal and technology, kids are encouraged to grow up faster. But back when I was just a little kid, on "Korean " T.V., there were plenty of age-appropriate shows that I could watch that taught good morals for little children. But then over the years, for some odd reason, the once immensely popular children's dramas started to be in decline, leaving only regular dramas, and Korean animations have always been rare. So there has been a shift here, now, when it comes to some program for children, it's always some kind of Barney-type show for the really little ones, and then dramas. There's no middle ground. What are kids in elementary school supposed to grow up with? Oh, right, they can watch dramas that are all identical with each other or flip on the music shows, which are fun, but do not quite give them something valuable to grow up with.
So am I glad that Koreans are finally getting the fact that the future generation of Koreans need something better to grow up with? Yes. They have been so deprived! And it makes me almost giddy that the broadcasters have been trying to bring back children's dramas and now their trying to be successful with fully Korean animations. Now the Korean animators really should be funded, and like I said in my blog post about children's dramas, the broadcasters should really watch and learn from the popular children's dramas from the early 21st century.
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