Liked the film but was really irritated by
the brief inclusion of the white half-wit at the beginning of the film.
Why would a young white male be hanging around with a couple of lowlife women beating Korean gangsters? I live in Seoul at the moment and the national media here love nothing more than to have a go at Johnny Foreigner, and what a bad influence he is on Korean society. If you read certain newspapers here you'd believe that all foreigners residing here are gambling,drug using sex offenders.
Nearly all young white men living in South Korea are either U.S army or English teachers. English teachers must go through a rigorous screening in order to get a visa to work here, F.B.I/national criminal checks, apostilled/notarized copies of diplomas, blood tests to detect drug use. My experience with U.S servicemen here is that they don't really mingle with Koreans, and tend to go out in groups for drinks/food. What with their base curfews and whatnot I'm not sure on the likelihood they would forge a friendship with Korean gangsters either. Plus, the man doesn't look like he's U.S army, he looks like a teacher. So who the **** is this character, and where has he come from?
What's so dissappointing is that it's a good film, yet the director felt it necessary for two absolute scumbags to have a Western pal. What went through his mind? Did he read about a couple of teachers getting caught posting cannabis to themselves and decide that after teaching all day they more than likely relax by hanging out in the Korean underworld, perhaps he caught the news report on the illegal foreigner gambling den, whereby teachers would get together for a game of poker and concluded this was a clear sign of the inherent degradation within the English teaching community.
Whatever the directors reasoning it's a pretty poor choice and I have little respect for him despite his making a good film.
As for the twonk that actually played the part I hope you never have the misfortune of meeting me on the streets of Seoul you utter arsewipe.