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nari: absolutely. and koreans are, you know, this amazing group of people that don t curse and eat amazing food and we like to drink and have fun. anthony: oh, stop sucking up. so, to the han. nari: we need to make a serious dent in this. anthony: dong jib. nari: you can t say that we re unique and we re amazing. anthony: that describes me. i m not drinking this. nari: no, you don t have to drink it. [ laughter ] anthony: my relentlessly cheerful friend and colleague, nari. she loves korea and all things korean. and wants nothing more than to make everybody love it as much as she does. that s why she brought me here, to the garak fish market. where you find the kind of casual joints i love. i will have, let me see, perhaps, the fish. anthony: i want, uh, some banchan. i want some spicy stuff. well, i ll start off by drinking some soju i think. ....
Upbringing. anthony: right. nari: i mean literally as your born anthony: it s genetic. nari: yeah, it s genetic. it s in our blood. anthony: han, my favorite korean word. it has many implied and specific meanings but, generally speaking, it s a mixture of endurance, yearning, sorrow, regret, bitterness, spite, hatred, and a grim determination to bide your time until revenge can at last be exacted. nari: i know, i know. revenge is a very, very sweet tasting thing for koreans, you know? because there s been so much wrong anthony: right. nari: that s happened to us. anthony: what about little timmy mcmasters who made fun of you in second grade for bringing kimchi to school. and he, see, he laughed at you and said it smelt like garbage. is there vengeance coming their way? nari: my greatest vengeance would be that those people think about that time that they made ....
Fun of me. i want them to actually love korean food now. anthony: that doesn t sound anywhere close to endless suffering. nari: well that s my personal story. anthony: i was thinking more along the lines of, like, electric nipple clamps and then i drive over them. and not killing them by the way. they slowly bled to death from femoral artery wounds. nari: the reason that koreans are able to just not wallow in that, is because of this other emotion called jeong. it is a deep fondness that you have for your other koreans. and people always focus on han and i m like yeah i know, han, yes, yes, yeah it exists. it exists, no one s denying that. we all have it, but jeong. no one talks about that, and it s equally strong. anthony: okay. i believe you. nari: i don t think you believe me about this jeong thing. anthony: no i believe you. like, i like the whole idea of han. i totally get that as an engine. i like that, i like that dark side. the fact that this word exists is so ....
Space huddled around a bubbling pot of something. anthony: what can i tell you? oh, this is good. you are failing in your duties as a younger sister. nari: i m sorry, i m sorry. gunbae? anthony: well you don t have to drink it immediately do you? face plant in that thing. nari: koreans, they just want each other to drink as much as possible. peer pressure drinking. anthony: right. nari: it s kind of a big deal. may i, uh, have another glass please? anthony: korean drinking etiquette 101, you never pour your own drink. younger pours for the older and you never drink alone. anthony: how come all the korean guys are so tormented? they re all carrying around some unseen weight. nari: every single korean person is born with this thing called han. which is a deep sorrow and anger. it has nothing to do with ....
Things have changed since then. i ve changed. i m guessing nari s changed. and korea? korea has certainly changed. the korean war ended more than half a century ago. but in some ways, it s still going. the north and south having been on perpetual war footing ever since. it s a psychological and physical scar. korea is literally split in half. but that s not what this show is about. anthony: there aren t many comparisons to south korea s stratospheric rise over the last decade. one of the poorest countries as recently as the sixties, today it claims one of the world s fastest growing economies. the government has been extremely shrewd and forward thinking about selling the world all things korean. underwriting, encouraging, financing and supporting the export of intangibles. ....