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Simple fact: Get out (2017) #1 Boxoffice in South Korea for 1 week Black Panther (2018) #1 Boxoffice in South Korea for 4 weeks During 2017~2018, Koreans loved the movies with charming black actors and actresses. in 2023, American says that Koreans are racist. Honestly, No. The Little Mermaid is just poor movies for both children and adults.

영화 안봐준다고 찡찡거리는게 진짜 웃김 ㅋㅋ.. 너네 많이봐.. 영화가 망하고 잘되는건 흔한건데 흑인 인어공주 안봐준다고 인종차별주의자 이지랄 하는게 ㅈ ㄴ 웃김 애초에 우리부터 제일 차별받는 아시안인데 .. ㅋㅋ 심지어 인어공주랑 앞으로 나올 팅커벨, 백설공주에 동양인 공주는 안만드는건 언급도 없음

Director Bong Jun ho even had to refer to subtitles as the reason many Americans don't watch foreign films and called it the one inch barrier. Americans barely watch films made with foreign languages. Are Americans racist for not watching Korean films in theaters?

난 이 상황이 너무 역겨운게 한국에서 블랙팬서,알라딘을 500만,1000만명이 넘게 볼땐 아무말도 안하다가, 대뜸 인어공주 쳐망하니까 이제와서 인종차별자로 만드는 이 상황 자체가 너무 역겨움.. 뭐 그 작품들 흥하는건 위대한 흑인이 들어있으니 당연한결과고, 인어공주가 망하는건 인종차별자야? 같은 인간으로서 정말 너무한거 아닌가?

The Little Mermaid is underperforming at the box office not only in South Korea but worldwide. It is unfair to attribute the failure of a Hollywood movie solely to Asia.

한국은 단일민족국가이고 해외 영화 주인공의 인종은 큰 관심이 없습니다. 알라딘을 예로 들면, 지니가 백인이던 흑인이던 미국에서나 논쟁거리였지 한국인들은 별로 신경을 쓰지 않아요. 그냥 영화가 별로 재미없어서 비판하는것 뿐인데 인종차별자라고 매도하니 당황스럽네요. 일부 온라인에서의 한국인 댓글이 문제였다면, 어느나라에나 인셀은 있고 그들이 국민성을 대표하지 않는다는건 잘 알고있을겁니다.

CNN: asians racist for not watching black mermaid. Asians in america punched in the face by blacks. CNN:

Black Panther 1 enjoyed immense popularity in South Korea, attracting a staggering 5.4 million viewers, which made it a phenomenal success. Its opening day alone drew in an impressive 630,012 viewers, breaking the record for the highest opening in South Korea for 2018. This achievement was notable as it had been four years since a foreign film, Frozen in 2014, dominated the box office during the Lunar New Year holiday season. Black Panther 1 shattered that record. Notably, Black Panther 1 also became the fastest foreign film to reach over 5 million viewers among all movies released in Korea in February 2018. The fact that it ultimately amassed 5.4 million viewers indicates that it captured the attention of over 10% of South Korea's entire population. Some may argue that Black Panther's success was unsurprising given its association with the Marvel franchise. To counter this, let's consider another example. Get Out, a satirical movie tackling racism, was not widely recognized initially. Consequently, Korean film importers had no plans to bring the film to Korea. However, many Korean individuals went as far as crowdfunding and petitioning the importers to release the movie. Eventually, Get Out climbed to the top of the Korean box office, becoming the second-largest performance worldwide after the United States. Director Jordan Peele, in a promotional video for his next film, Us, acknowledged that Get Out was born in the United States but found tremendous support and success in Korea. Does this indicate Koreans are racist? It's unfair to attribute The Little Mermaid's failure solely to racial discrimination. People in Korea refuse to go to movie the little mermaid not because they are racists but Disney didn't make a good movie.

정작 뮬란은 생각보다 흥행 못하고. 흑인이 주인공인 블랙팬서는 한국에서 500만명이나 보면서 굉장히 흥행했는데... 이제는 억까 당하는것도 걍 해탈한 수준이라 아무렇지 않으니 마음대로 생각했으면 좋겠다고 느낌.

Western media is very funny. In Europe, the film also received huge critical reviews and was sluggish at the box office. Nevertheless, it only criticizes East Asia. Personal attacks and mocking memes against the black mermaid were all created in the American Internet community. The United States has no right to criticize any other country. Especially, there is no right to criticize South Korea, where racially-related violent murders are much rarer than in the US and Europe. And in South Korea, Spider-Man: New Universe with a black Spider-Man was a hit, and Aladdin with a black Genie was watched by more than 10 million people (1/5 of Entire South Korean Population). Black Panther was also quite successful in South Korea. Rethink whether racism is a real factor or the movie itself is the problem.

흥행실패를 인종차별로 덮으려고 하는데 한국은 겟아웃과 블랙팬서가 흥행한 나라다. 그때는 인종차별주의자가 아니었다가 인어공주 때는 인종차별주의자가 되었단 말인가? 영화에 사상과 의도를 넣어서 그것에 맞는 반응을 안보인다고 인종차별주의자로 매도하는 것이 치졸하고 추악하다!

It’s not just Korean or Asian’s, it did badly worldwide. Don’t blame people if you make bad movies, Disney.

I am saying this as a black person. Disney doesn't care about black people because if they did they would make original movies with black characters rather than race swapping. Black people that defend this are just not seeing things for what they are. It's like getting me a hand me down and being happy with it. I would rather Disney choose not to make movies with black leads than race swap them

As a black person, I’d appreciate if Disney just made more black character movies than race swapping in the movie ‘the little Mermaid’ and the other characters in the movie we’re barely seeing. 😢 We need our own stories, if Disney took time to explore among black ethnics, there’s so many stories for blacks to put out there.

Don't force American politics to other countries. All countries have there own culture, tradition, launguage, people don't try to manipulate or influence your own mass in it .

인어공주의 부진이 아시아의 인종차별 때문이라고 얘기하는 것 자체가 인종차별이다

미국인이라면 언론이 의도적으로 비난의 화살을 해외로 돌리고 있다는 것을 눈치채야 한다. 그 옛날 LA 흑인폭동이 왜 한인타운으로 번졌는지, 왜 특정 국가를 콕 집어 인종차별 논란을 부추기려 하는지 깊이 생각해봐야 한다. 당신의 권리를 실현하기 위해 분노를 표출하는 것이 사실 누군가에 의해 조작된 것이 아닌지 떠올려야 한다.

Korea had the biggest box office for black panther outside US, UK and China, if you consider Korea's population size is merely a fraction of the other 3 countries you can clearly see Korea embracing Black Panther as a whole and unfazed by a black lead cast. If you consider other examples of huge hits in korean box office from foreign non-hollywood films with brown or black lead cast that have failed to reach similar success in western countries. Koreans seem to be more accepting of multiple ethnicities represented on screen. Korea has a huge market of live action versions of their web published graphic novels called webtoons, whilst small deviation is accepted and embraced large departures from original series are often heavily criticised as it appears staying true to the original is a more important factor to the Korean consumers than we realise. Suddenly hollywood wants us to believe little mermaid tanking must be due to Korean racism and not the fact that disney botched another live action remake. Let us not forget the times western remakes of popular japanese animated series like avatar the last airbender, dragonball z failing in western markets, you couldnt say it was because the western consumers were racist to the white cast, but rather the failure of the end result in living up to the original.

상식적으로 이 상황이 정상인가요? 일게 상업영화로 남에 나라 정서는 생각하지 않고 지네나라 정서(정치 경제)만 생각하여 미국 뉴스매체라는 것들이 한국인들 편견 씌우고 공격에 대응, 정중히 한 인터뷰들과 무관하게 비정상적 언행하는 외국인들 주장에 말리지 않았음 해요.

Yeah, it's always like this. White people and black people only point out and condemn discrimination against black people. But they don't care about discrimination against Hispanics, Asians, Gingers, Indians, or even recognize that it's discrimination. If Asia really discriminated against blacks, Aladdin and Spider-Man wouldn't have been box office hits. CNN wrote that The Little Mermaid flopped in Asia because of "racism" in China and Korea, but isn't it the United States that is racist? Many of the world's largest companies have diversity departments, but are they really "diversity" departments? Are they staffed by people of every race in the world?

한국은 웹툰시장이 큰데 웹툰이 영화화 되거나 드라마화 되는 경우가 많음 근데 캐스팅이 기존 캐릭터랑 다르면 사람들이 크게 비난하고 흥행하지 못하는 모습을 보였음 외국 영화라고 뭐 다르겠음?ㅋㅋ 그리고 한국을 늘고물어지는 외국 언론들을 보고 동양인에 대한 인종차별이라고 느꼈음 외국에 여행가면 인종차별을 밥먹듯이 겪는데 그들은 정작 동양인에 인종차별에 대해선 고려하지 않는데 우리한테 강요함 진짜 웃기지도 않음 너희나 동양인 인종차별하지마

진짜 미국언론들 웃기는 소리하는거 같다. 미국언론들이 아시아인에 대한 인종차별을 하고 있다. 흑인이 주인공인 블랙팬서가 우리나라에서 얼마나 흥행에 성공했는데!!! 겟아웃 이것도 얼마나 성공했는데!!!! 윌스미스 나오는 알라딘도 얼마나 성공했는데!!! 지들이 영화를 거지같이 만들고서 왜 우리나라한테 난리야??!! 우리는 아무리 우리가 좋아하는 연예인이라도 못하면 깐다!!!! 젤 중요한 여주인공이 노래만 잘하는데 깔건 까야지! 스토리도 어거지면 까야지!!!! 내가 직접봤는데 스토리도 별로고 새로나온 노래들도 별로였고, 화면은 온통 어둡고, 에리얼은 신입인거 티나게 연기가 중간중간 계속 혼자 어색하게 붕 뜨고.. 계속 알라딘하고 비교하게 되더라. 거기도 새로운 노래 있었지만 얼마나 좋았는데 4d 3번이나 봤다. 흑인이라서 못 까면 오히려 그게 더 인종차별이다!!!

At some point, Hollywood began to blame the audience, not the production crew, if the movie went bankrupt.

미국이랑 흑인들은 말로만 인종차별하지말라고하지 진저와 동양인 차별에는 서슴 없음

I could care less who is playing the characters but I will say I’m so tired of the remakes😭Disney has given us too many live action Princess movies and ppl are tired. We already know how the story goes. It would’ve been more interesting if Disney did the older original animations but from a different characters point of view. Something like Maleficent, or have a movie from Ursula’s pov. I think Disney should do princess villain adaptations instead because people loved Maleficent more than the Cinderella remake around that time

It was never about racism. Encanto, Coco, Aladdin, (etc.) are all well received everywhere even though their main characters are POC. What's the difference? These movies were ORIGINAL, the art/visuals were COLOUFUL and thoroughly done, and those Characters being POC of a culture actually ADDED to the story (it influenced the music, setting, art styles, plot interactions with family and others, etc.) Swapping Ariel's race to Black added nothing to the movie's plot or characterisation whatsoever. If Hailey could be swapped out with another White actress without affecting the plot, art, or character interactions, then the movie was not true representation to begin with. Notice how if you swapped races with the movies I mentioned, it will just not work. Unfortunately the media is taking advantage of this and guilt-tripping everyone by calling them racists for not liking this movie. Disney needs to realise what REAL representation is instead of lazily allocating a POC actress in a cheap-looking, recycled movie while trying to tick the boxes for "being diverse"

Korea exports kimchi to you, but you don't buy much kimchi. You are racist against Koreans. This is the logic you're arguing for, right?

Korea has the fourth largest movie market in the world and the fourth largest game market. Contrary to what you know, Korea is not a small country and the audience's standards are high. I am well aware that the Korean market's public opinion is important in the global film and game industry. So I'm telling you, the reason why we turned away from the Little Mermaid is not because of race, but because the movie itself is bad

I agree 100% with the dude who was talking about the dark tone/colour palette and the unappealing realistic Flounder. You can make light live action adaptations Disney!!

It's no longer a movie if you are labeled as terrible person when you don't watch it. For those kind of films we call it, "Propaganda".

I would appreciate it if Disney could create a superhero movie with a Korean protagonist. If it doesn't succeed in the United States, there's no doubt that Americans were racist.

솔직히 한국에서 흑인 인종차별 이야기 하는거 자체가 의미 없습니다. 백인, 흑인, 진저 상관없이 한국에서는 똑같은 외국인일 뿐입니다. 서양에서 신경 쓰는 주제를 왜 한국에서도 똑같은 시선으로 바라볼거라 생각하는건지 이해가 안됩니다..한국에 인종차별하는 사람이 아애 없다고 할수 없지만 외국인 차별은 봤어도 흑인만 콕 집어서 차별하는 사람 보기 드물고 나도 본적 없습니다

I'm Korean and I have just one thing to say, racism can be used as a very 'easy' defensive and offensive tool when you don't have any common sense or logic

CNN이 대놓고 한국인 인종차별 하네ㅋㅋㅋ 미국이 한국한테 그런말 할 자격이 있어? 미국내 동양인 인종차별 문제는 어떻게 생각해? 개인의 취향을 존중하지 않고 핍박하는 사회라니 토나온다.🤑 정치적 올바름이고 개똥 나발이고 다른나라에 강요하지 말아라!!

미국인들의 착각은 대단하다. 미국의 인구가 몇이었지? 3억명??😂 전세계에는 80억의 인구가 각자의 문화에서 살아간다. 건방지게 가르치려 들지마라

The opinion that Koreans don't watch The Little Mermaid because they are racists is unfounded. Koreans tend to be indifferent towards racial issues because Korea, as a mono-ethnic nation for the past 5,000 years, has not experienced conflicts related to race. Although the United States witnessed a black-and-white controversy surrounding the casting of the Genie in Disney's live-action film Aladdin, Koreans did not pay much attention to whether the Genie was portrayed as white or black. Of course, there is a perception that Koreans are desensitized to racism. In the past, Koreans may have had language habits that were unpleasant for people of other races to hear. However, it is important to note that these habits were not intended to make them uncomfortable or to discriminate against them. Instead, they were a product of Korea's unique historical background. Applying the concept of political correctness to Koreans without considering the distinctiveness of Korea's 5,000-year history, if anything, could be seen as discriminatory thinking and behavior.

한국인은 미국이나 유럽처럼 흑인과의 큰 접전이 있는 역사가 없어서 딱히 흑인에게 별생각이 없음. 어릴때부터 맨인블랙,화이트칙스,겟아웃 등 다 재밌게봤음. 그냥 실사화이다 보니 알라딘처럼 최대한 캐릭터와 비슷한 느낌의 배우가 연기하길 바란것뿐인데 인어공주는 기존에 알던 디즈니의 빨간머리 에리얼 캐릭터와 인종도 다르고 외모도 닮질 않고 단순히 노래 잘한다고 캐스팅이 되어버리고 이것들을 커버할정도의 연기력도 아니니 그것에대해 비판을 말한것뿐인데 인종차별주의자로 몰아가니 어이가없을뿐이지… 차라리 외모지상주의라고 하면 이해라도 가는데 엉뚱하게 인종차별주의자가 되어버림ㅋㅋ…

아시안으로 태어나 흑인 주인공 영화 흥행 안 시켜주면 이제 욕 먹는 세상으로 왔구나

If Korea were a serious racist country, Black Panther also would've not been popular here. But it was totally successful.

앞으로 아시아인 영화 나올때 미국에서 망하면 인종차별로 보면 되는거 맞지?

I don’t understand why they just can’t make an original movie with a black character. Like I’m from South Africa and in Africa their is so much good folklore that can be turned into movies and their are many real historical princesses they can make movies about. Imagine they changed Pocahontas or Princess and the frog or Mulan to a different race. I’m pretty sure people will be outraged. Even with Anastasia if they made a remake and she wasn’t Russian it just wouldn’t feel right. Or if they made Moana’s hair straight. Or made Merida a blonde. It wouldn’t be right.

한국에서 스타트랙 성적 안좋은 건 한국인이 백인배우를 차별해서인가? 진짜 말도안되는 소리다

There need to be no logical explanation for customers who didn’t enjoy movie. They paid for seats and if many audiences didn’t like the movie than the producer didn’t make movie that’s worth paying for. If you ask people to make logical reports for customers why they didn’t enjoy the movie you should give money back before you asked for it. So stop making nasty excuses like US media blaming global failure of the movie to Asians. Why do you think Disney fired producer, diversity director and staffs? Bc they made so so movie. It wasn’t mega hit globally. Simple fact! Not everyone enjoyed nor globally recognized and not all races even in US loved the movie. There are hundreds of critics and bad reviews about this movie and disappointments from old fans or original animations as much as good ones. Just this movie was not commercially successful worldwide. So Don’t try to bring race card bc it won’t work anymore. it only represents you are making ugly excuses. So so movie is so- so movie. You can’t change customers mind.

the word racism is not your shield

'Black Panther' surpassed 5 million viewers on its 18th day in Korea. It was the first time in Korea to surpass 5 million viewers in 2018 and the shortest foreign film ever released in February. Why now try to pass on to us their mistakes that didn't portray the Little Mermaid in fairy tale illustrations or animations as black? Don't change the characters that have been drawn before, just write a different story with a black person as the main character. They're just making excuses because they can't do it.

오늘 미국 시애틀에서 벌어진 총격사건 뉴스를 보고 다시 왔습니다. 범인은 흑인 남성이었고, 피해자는 한국인 임산부와 남편이었어요. 임산부는 사망하였고, 아기도 긴급으로 재왕절개 수술을 진행했지만 사망했습니다. 남편은 수술 후 생존했지만 그 남자가 느껴야 할 슬픔의 깊이를 감이 가늠하기가 두려울 정도입니다. 범인은 총을 쏜 직후 "I DID IT!!" 이라고 외쳤다고 합니다. 전형적인 인종차별이고, 아시안 헤이트입니다. 이런 사건은 아주 오래전에도 벌어졌습니다. 혹시 루프탑 코리안 이라는 말의 기원을 아시나요? 당신들을 무시하는 원흉인 백인들과 유태인에게는 이의를 제기하지도 못하면서 당신들보다 소수자인 아시안을 더 괴롭히고 공격하는 이유는 무엇인가요? 혹시 BLM시위는 ONLY BLM 이었나요????? 이것이 미국 흑인 커뮤니티 도덕의 수준인가??? 부끄러운 줄 알아라

I sincerely hope that Americans will react so passionately to Asian violence in the United States.

지들은 동양인 싫다고 총으로 쏴 죽이면서 인종차별 어쩌구저쩌구 웃음 밖에 안나오네 ㅋㅋㅋ

Some American media use the excuse that this film's failure was due to racism in some Asian countries, but at least in Korea, if you look for Korea-related episodes with director Jordan Peele's film Get Out, that stupid theory doesn't work.

미국영화는 아시아에서 꼭 성공해야됨? 무조건 봐야함? 지들이 거지같이 만들어놓고 재미없어서 안본다는데 무슨 인종차별이래 ? 지들도 아시아인을 차별하는거 잖아?

What intelligent and articulate questions and responses. Very impressed at the level of reasoning by everyday Koreans.

Why should I suddenly be racist just because I didn't watch a movie I didn't want to see? America is always open and develops in a good way, but sometimes it is sensitive to every stupid sound.

Korea is not really talking about the color. We are talking about how poorly the movie was made. simply we compare with original animation that was produced in same company. Some of people are saying Koreans are racists, but when Chadwick Boseman died, we cried together. When we watch Chiwetel in '12 years a slave', we were sad and mad together about what we have watched through the screen and feel the pain. Disney released the movie in KOR first cuz they were expecting some good feedback as usual and they turned over cuz they did not hear what they were expected. What a crucial company that misleading kids into wrong way hating Koreans or thinking Koreans are racists. Disney is literally making another discrimination by making frames about Korean.

Koreans: We'd like Disney to respect the source material of a classic film we deeply love. Americans: UgH LoOk aT aLL tHeSE RaCiSTs!

Americans were the ones who enslaved and discriminated against blacks, but why now shift the blame for it to Koreans living on the other side of the world? And that's just because korean didn't watch a movie starring a black actor? Black Panther was very popular in Korea, but I guess Chadwick Boseman was a white actor. I didn't know that. wtf

Well it's true that the vibe of movie is different. No matter how old you are you have this image of Disney movies to be bright and colourful. But this was not the case this tym. Most people didn't feel the urge to watch it.

korea is the second largest country which watched the movie of Jordan Haworth Peele, most black movie of the world!

Koreans are smart

Respect to all the korean people in this interview. Thank you for staying honest and saying what has been on everyone's mind about these films. Much love!

I haven’t seen any of the live action remakes just because I loved the cartoons and didn’t need a realistic reimagining for any of them. Besides that, I think the 3D characters should have been made in a stylized way, they actually look creepy because they’re realistic. The color palette and vibe is also too gloomy. Kids loved the original because it instills a sense of wonder and makes you want to live in the ocean and I didn’t get that sense from the trailer.

This is Disney's method to avoid criticism. Because they just attribute any negative press to racism so as to avoid the main problem. These remakes are soulless cash-grabs intent on banking on nostalgia. While simultaneously trying to be politically correct and appeal to a "modern audience". Just give us good, original productions that actually leave the "family fun" image that grew the brand. WITHOUT trying to lecture us about some western agenda.

The East Asia region has no experience of enslaving black people and has no historical interface ... The evaluation of American films was objective... In the case of Black Panther, it ranked first in Korea to watch movies... Rather, don't black people ignore East Asian people?I want black people to judge with objectivity and reason...

인어공주 영화의 가장 큰 문제중에 하나는 너무 어두웠다는 겁니다. 제 친구들이 보고나서 공포영화같았다고 말한게 기억이 나네요 😂 디즈니의 장점은 아이들과 함께 볼 수 있는 아름다운 영화라는 거였는데, 이번에는 오히려 아이들이 무서워했다네요. 그리고 배우들의 매력을 살리지도 못한 영화라고 생각합니다..보고나서 감상평은 솔직히 영화 자체가 너무 매력이 없었어요. 배우들의 매력을 느낄 수 있는 구석도 없었고 배경도 저희는 아바타같은 아름다운 바다를 원했거든요..그렇지만 그런 바다는 무슨 검은 심해밖에 없었죠.

8:59 this is exactly what I thought. I mean, Dragonball Evolution also flop badly due to the live adaptation were way too diverted from the original manga/anime. It's mostly because most of people (adults) are already know the story, so the only reason that they go to the cinemas are to watching the story that they hold dearly realized in bigger screen. If the realization are not meet their expectations or their original image, it would be very hard to watch.

How not to be racist: If the movie is boring and doesn't suit your taste, if the main character is black, watch it and praise it, or the American media will accuse you of being racist

할리베일리가 이렇게까지 욕먹는건 나도 배우가 안타깝다고 생각함 근데 솔직히 인어공주 역할로는 최악이었다 옹호자들은 목소리 하나만으로 인어공주에 적합하다고 쉴드치던데 목소리만 출연하는 3D 애니메이션 더빙 영화도 아니고 외적으로 닮은게 전혀 없는 배우를 실사영화에 캐스팅하면 대체 무슨 의미가 있음? 실사영화에 대해서 관객이 기대하는 건 외적인 싱크로율이 가장 클텐데 관객의 기대는 고려하지 않고 영화를 만들어놓고선 오히려 비판하는 관객을 인종차별주의자로 모는 게 너무 화가 남

I don't understand what's so hard to understand? People just prefer remake characters and story to match with the original. This is not a matter of race, it's the same thing as how alot of marvel or dc comic fans hate the movies when the character or storyline doesn't match with the original comics. Not everything revolves around race. Even my black friend hated the new mermaid movie because he felt that they forced the race problem into children's movie, which isn't needed. Kids shouldn't have to care about these things, if Disney wants to resolve race issue, they just need to make more diverse characters with different race and not shove race topics down children's throat. I would hate it if they made black panther movie with an asian guy, it'd look ridiculous.

Don't ignore Koreans' eye for movies. Since most korean people have very high academic standards and have no outside hobbies that can be enjoyed differently like foreign countries, their perspective on movies and dramas has developed very fast and high. Gaslighting race marketing may be successful in USA, such as "You are a cool person only when you see this movie, and you can be recognized that you are not a racist" but that doesn't work in Korea. In Korea, only "level of completion" is guaranteed success.

중간에 한 여학생이 말하는 말이 백번 맞다. 우리는 동화의 이야기를 이미 다 알고 있다. 원작을 재해석한 영화는 스토리보다도 더 중요한 것이 얼만큼 정확하게 재구성 했는지다. 스토리를 보러 오는 게 아닐텐데... 분명 이런 실사 영화는 원작을 얼마나 잘 구현하느냐가 문제라고 생각함. 정작 미국 외에서는 인기 없는 영화 ㅋㅋ

미국에서는 흑인들이 아시아인 들을 엄청나게 인종차별하고 무시하지 않나? 그러면서 인종차별은 항상 흑인들이 당한다고 언론플레이 하고 있고.

There can be many factors to consider besides skin tone that may or may not “translate” when crossing culture lines. Tastes in food and music, style of dance and clothing and even body types change from race to race. A voluptuous figure may be highly revered in one culture, but another culture might prefer a more svelte body type. Some cultures are more quiet/reserved others are boisterous. Etc.. If you ever been attracted to certain physical traits without having to explain or apologize for it, then I see no reason to be mad about this. We're not obligated to find you attractive or go to your movies and vice versa. Get over it.

Lots of people in the comments saying that Koreans are racist just because they wanted an actress more representative of the original character. How the irony is lost upon so many is speaks volumes.

People seem to forget The Little Mermaid is from Hans Christen Andersen. Disney might have popularized the version most of us know, but they didn't create it. It's just another interpretation.

The U.S. seems to be pushing people who don't like the movie "The little Mermaid" as racist because they don't want to admit that their Disney didn't make it attractive... It seems to be trying to deflect blame. It was miss-casting.. She doesn't have curious eyes, and doen't look little..😭 Actually miss-casting can be the one of main reason that the movie is failed even in Korean drama or movie. 미국은 자기들이 인어공주 영화 못 만든걸 인정하기 싫어서(욕먹기 싫어서) 비난의 화살을 딴데 돌리려는것 같음 ....

그리고 알라딘 영화는 정말 재밌게 잘 봤습니다 인종이 문제가 아니란걸 깨닫게 해주는 예시에요 그 사람들은 배역에 정말 잘 맞았고 특히 지니역을 맡은 윌스미스가 연기를 너무 잘해서 감명깊게 봤습니다

As someone from the UK who has never been to Korea, this was fascinating. Thank you! I agree, this movie had all sorts of issues! It’s not just all ‘racism’

92년도 LA 폭동 당시를 회상해 보면, CNN 방송사에서 백인과 흑인의 갈등으로 인하여 폭동이 발생하자 갑자기 91년도 두순자 강도사건을 전면으로 내세우더니, 흑인과 한국인 간의 인종 갈등으로 백인의 피해를 피해가려던 꼼수를 우리는 기억하고 있다. 한국은 블랙팬서, 알라딘, 맨인블랙 처럼 흑인 주연의 영화도 매우 흥행한 나라이고, "흑형(Black brother)"이라는 단어가 있을 만큼 N워드만 있는 것이 아니라, 흑인에 대한 신체적 부러움을 그들에게 표현하는 것이 만연한 나라이다. 물론 한국이라고 인종 차별이 없는 나라도 아니지만, 미국이나 유럽과는 비교할 수 있는 수준은 아니라고 생각한다. 그리고, 굳이 인종차별을 논한다면, 황인에 대한 인종차별이 흑인에 대한 인종차별보다 훨씬 더 심한 것이 북미, 남미와 유럽지역이다. 영화 캐스팅을 못생긴 흑인 여배우로 지정했고, 영화 영상미가 떨어져서 원작과 너무 다른 논조라서 아이들이 보기에 적합하지 않은 영화로 만든 것은 디즈니인데, 디즈니 영화 안본다고 인종차별로 프레임을 씌우는 짓은 비열하다. 그리고 굳이 정치적 올바름에 대한 의견을 적자면, 디즈니는 왕자를 흑인으로 캐스팅 하지, 어째서 못생긴 인어 공주를 흑인으로 선택했고, 백인 왕자가 변덕스러운 흑인 공주를 육지로 인도하는 듯한 스토리를 짠 건가? 디즈니야 말로 인종차별주의적인 발상으로 기획한 것이 아닌가? 아, 그리고 이번에 알았는데, 미국에서는 백인이 못생긴 흑인 여가수를 못생겼다고 말하면 인종차별자로 낙인찍힌다는 사실을 알았다. 솔직히 할리 베일리는 노래 정말 잘 부르고, 장래에 가수로서 세계적으로 대성할 수 있는 목소리를 가졌지만, 연기는 잘 못하고 이쁜 배우는 아니라서 원작처럼 왕자를 반할만한 미모를 가지고 있는 공주 역할에 어울리지는 않는다. 나이도 어린데, 디즈니 때문에 너무 낙담말고 민감한 사회 문제나 주제에 대해 신경쓰지 말고 그냥 노래 연습 잘해서 세계적인 가수 되었으면 좋겠다.

honestly it’s nothing to do with racism. there are so many better contents and others options to watch in Korea.

14:02 well saying. It is just a CNN agenda, why bothered? We are free to choose whether to watch a movie or not. 😂 In reality, there are many movies with actors of different races having very good rating. 👍

실패한 영화를 빌미로 동양인을 혐오하는게 PC의 목적이냐

전체적으로 우중충한 영화 분위기, 인간세계가 궁금하고 왕자를 순수한 마음으로 사랑함이 전혀 느껴지지 않는 아리엘, 익살스러움이 전혀 느껴지지 않는 동물들, 굉장히 저급한 CG 퀄리티 그냥 망하려고 작정한거 아닌가? 이래놓고 한국이 인종차별? 가스라이팅하는거 어이없네 미국에서 가스라이팅 언론플레이 하는거 보고 더 보기싫어짐 ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ

People are quite tired of the identity politics.

9:06 I agree 100% with that lady

There's no problem about Halle's performance in The Little Mermaid. Somehow, I feel shocked when I heard that she's going to play the role of Ariel. The first thing that came to my mind when I heard the live adaptation of The Little Mermaid was they're going to get a red hair/ginger actress. Despite of the storyline of Mulan (live adaptation) being a bit messy, they hired an Asian actress, which I'm thankful for because somehow there's a representation for us (I'm Asian). Correct me if I'm wrong but aside from Ariel and Merida (from Brave), they're the only red haired princess in the "main" (there are underrated Disney princess/female character) Disney princess line. I just hope that in live adaptation of Brave, they would cast a ginger for the role of Merida so that redheads has a representation. I hope that rather than recycling a character, Disney should create a new storyline with new characters. If they are really stand for the black people, they should create a movie/film/series that shows and depicts the history and struggles of people of color. This would broaden our understanding about the inequalities that the black community experiencing. Disney is a great medium to deliver this kind of message to the young ones. I hope that they can work with it.

When I and many people think of Ariel we think of a white girl with red hair, blue eyes, a purple shell bra, and a vibrant green tail. If you change the image of the entire character and then make the whole movie dark and colorless, of course people aren't going to watch. Nothing to do with Koreans or anyone being racist. People just wanted a faithful adaptation.

This movie tanked in India too but I don't think it's racist coz Black panther and wakanda Forever are some of the most celebrated Hollywood films in India

It's not just racism why the movie bombed in Korea. Ticket prices have gone way up since the pandemic, and people are reluctant to watch movie that isn't worth watching at all. They'd just wait for the movies to be available on Netflix or Disney+. It's not just _The Little Mermaid_ that bombed, almost all Korean movies released in 2023 (except for _The Roundup: No Way Out_ ) didn't even make money for their production fees. Heck, even _Decision to Leave_ didn't get many popularity like Parasite did in 2019. Also, my basic thoughts, the idea 'Bailey did not fit the movie' can also be interpreted as 'The movie did not fit Bailey at all'. If you want some character change in the movie, you'd expect other things about the character to change. All that changed in the live-action movie was literally the settings and some line of dialog changes. This made Bailey much more unsuitable for the movie. You can't just expect everyone to enjoy your movie. That is not racist, that is the basic fact for making any media. People go to the theater to have fun time, not to get lectured about basic social values they learned from school. I don't think the cast is something to be blamed upon at all. The blame has to go to the story-writers who were lazy to remaster the beautiful story of Ariel while changing her skin color. Just learn from Pixar making masterpieces about diversity that Disney wanted to put in their story. PC is not the problem, the people trying to justify their unfinished, bad storyline with PC is the problem. Sure, some toxic internet users in Korea propagating hate speech against the actor is seriously concerning and we should all stop that. I am not even going to deny we are free from racism. If we want our cultural content to be more widespread, we should probably think outside of the box called 'Homogenousity'. We should really be proud to say there are many colors of Koreans, cause there must be a black guy who has Korean passport and all that stuff. Also, let's talk about other European countries who are ALSO giving negative reviews on the movie, and as far as I know, some of them has more black people than here. It's not just us who think this movie is disappointing.

Dear South Korea, dont worry about these people. I never watched the little marmaid, and I am black, lol. Baby..do you. If a movie is boring, it's boring. Dont let anyone guilt you, lol.

Sorry, but we don't care about black human rights at all. Because we’re busy caring about our human rights. Asians have never enslaved or discriminated against black people. Honestly, everyone knows that “Black Americans” have a higher social status than Asians, right? The "real underdog" that American society should care about is Asians. Just as blacks do not strive for white human rights, Asians do not strive for the improvement of black human rights. Just in case, if black people come forward first and care about Asian human rights, we might change our minds then.

13:53 I love this guy, he definitely goes on lengthy rants on social media about the topic and was prepared for this interview 😂

I'm REALLY upset that this video was titled "Are Koreans racist?" That is so messed up and so unfair. And having titles like that are what perpetuate violence against asians in my country. I agree with everything they said and it was nit racist at all. Its what most people felt regarding this movie. We go to see these Disney movies because we want to see our childhood favorite character brought to life and its not as exciting if its not the ssme. I also agree about it being darker and nit as fun and bubbly as the original was.

I think CN* framing the racist backlash from Koreans as the reason for the movie tanking is ridiculous. Please do not blame it on Asians. why don’t you guys face that fact that the movie was below expectation? Frankly, I do not care which color is 우리도 보는눈이있다규~~~ 😤

백인이나 흑인이나 우리한텐 외국인임 인종차별인지 뭔지 ㅈㄴ관심 없다고;; 그냥 우리가 알던 원작 인어공주 찾는게 이상한거냐

Well not only did it bomb in China and Korea BUT all over the world…

I watched this movie. I like Halle as a singer but unfortunately, not as an actress. Over-all, I give the movie a 6. Did not like the effects, most of the colors are dark and grim (I guess I am biased by the vibrancy of the animated version). I still believe that everyone has a right to like and dislike something. So yeah, that is my opinion.

What's interesting is that all controversial "black discrimination" incidents in Korea started from the fault of black people. koreans basically do not judge people based on their skin color. Rather, there is a strong tendency to comprehensively evaluate the other person's appearance (e.g., how neat they are), attitude, and personality. Black people seem to think that their skin color is a kind of privilege, and that black people will naturally be avoided in Korea. Since Korea is basically a single-ethnic country with 50 million people (75 million if you include North Korea), when they see foreigners, they are basically scared and tend to leave or try to treat them like family. The reason people hate Ariel is simply because the movie was too scary for kids. In fact, many children cried in the theater and many mothers demanded refunds. The generation that grew up watching The Little Mermaid and came of age felt that the movie was boring, meaningless, and was trying to instill unnecessary lessons. I would say that the problem is not because of Ariel's skin color, but because she has not formed a basic image of herself as a 'princess.' US is wrong for not being able to call ugly people ugly. Rather, until the early days of COVID-19 in the 2020s, black people were only felt as ‘foreigners’ in Korea. The reason Asians didn't know that calling them 'niggers' was a big mistake was simply because they didn't know. They later changed the word "ni-ga" (meaning you are) in the song after many black people pointed out that they shouldn't say the N-word. In cases where it was unavoidable to use it, we omitted it altogether or tried to provide an explanation in advance. In Korea today, feelings toward black people must be very bad. A representative example is the Sam Okyere case. He said, “I love Korea, Korean people are so nice” but in a BBC interview, he said, “Korea is complete trash. Korean people are very racist” He showed a two-faced attitude. Afterwards, there was a sexual crime case in which an explicit remark was made against a married Korean woman: “Korean women who taste the genitals of black men lose their minds.” Sam Okyere indiscriminately distributed the personal information of an underage student wearing makeup, claiming that the 'coffin dance meme' discriminates against black people. Someone asked, “If you had removed the makeup, would you point out whether it was whitewashing or yellowwashing?” The response was that for the first time in Korean history, Korean RU-vid was paralyzed due to indiscriminate internet group attacks by black people. Due to this incident, it cannot be said that current feelings toward black people in Korea are good. (Benjamin Aidoo, the protagonist of the Coffin Dance meme, congratulated the students on their graduation, saying their makeup was really great.) Koreans criticize Sam Okyere for his duplicity, sexual crimes, and attacks on childrens. Sam Okyere says he was attacked because he was “black.” Those actually attacked were Korean women, childrens, and the Internet. In conclusion, if you want to be respected, you first have to respect the other person. If you recklessly express your ideas or thoughts to another person, it is good to think about the most basic fact that the other person may treat you the same way. Korea is not US. simple.

I agree wholeheartedly with the interviewees. The industry pulled the same malarkey with Velma from Scooby Doo. Having Velma resemble Mindy Kaling was ridiculous because there was no outcry from the public to make her of Indian descent, and people aren't ever going to identify this new Velma as true to the original character. On top of that, the new Velma is not witty and definitely not funny. Disney destroyed Star Wars, and they're doing the same to The Little Mermaid. By the way, I'm a Black man from the US

처음에 흑인이 인어공주 주인공으로 캐스팅되었다는 소식을 들었을때, 어쩌면 흑인 음악과 힙합을 베이스로한 진취적이고 낭만적인 영화가 나올거라고 기대했다. 스토리도 기존의 플롯에서 큰 반전을 주거나 재밌게 비틀을거라고 생각했다. 그러나 디즈니는 게을렀다. 원래 변혁은 훨씬 많은 설득력과 노력을 요구하지만 디즈니는 이 영화를 안보는 사람들을 “인종차별주의자”로 만들고 신인 배우는 “인종차별을 당한 사람”으로 가난한 프레임을 만들며 저 멀리로 숨었다. 유색인종끼리 싸움을 붙이며.

Great documentary!! They express the feeling of not only Koreans, all of them were honest and showed transparency, I am also getting tired of the political correctness we are being pushed towards. It’s Disney’s past mistakes, not ours. I think that instead of trying to change the classics, they should come up with new stories and create characters that fit the story regardless of race. Why do we have to keep seeing people in colors??? By the way I am from Mexico 😊