I don't understand...

Luke and I don't have a television here and in all honesty, I don't think we're missing much. The snippets we've seen have been frankly quite strange and language barriers aside, I just cannot work out what is going on most of the time.

One show stays permanently in my mind and although I don't know what it is called or why on earth people would want to watch it, I will explain my memory of it to you here.

Luke and I had been for a weekend away in the mountains and we were on our way home. We were stuck in dreadful traffic on a bus that was taking forever and with nothing else to do, our eyes strayed to the television. The show appeared to be about people on the subway. There were three people (let's call them hosts) watching the cctv footage of passengers on a subway and while I couldn't see anything of real interest in the behaviour of the passengers, these people had a lot to say about it. I was already confused and thinking I must be missing the point of the show when it got even stranger. Every now and then, for no reason that we could determine, one of the three hosts would stand up, bend over and be smacked on the behind with a rolled up newspaper by a mysterious man wearing a trench coat, sunglasses and a hat. It was truly bizarre. Then it turned out that the hosts were actually on the same train as the people they were observing. They walked out into the carriage and acted as though they were fully expecting a heroes welcome. Well, they didn't get it. People looked at them quite blankly and appeared almost as confused as we were. I'm glad we weren't the only ones! This made me wonder, did anybody get the point of this show? Or was it as strange to Koreans as it was to us? I guess we'll never know....

So, we've gone nearly a year without a television and we've missed it for sure but given what's on here, it hasn't been that hard. I'm sure Australian T.V. would probably look strange to a Korean person but surely they'd be able to make a little more sense out of it than we've been able to make here, right?? Please tell me Australian T.V. hasn't gone the way of cctv footage of sleeping train passengers.... if it has, I might not invest in a television when I get home!

Lucy