Soap stars leap cultural borders
extracted parts from The Jakarta Post.com
Feb 10, 2006
Soap stars leap cultural borders
The stories are universal: Lots of tears and arduous struggles for love, spruced up with extreme, opposing characters.
Nevertheless, the faces, the names and the languages are different -- there's Eduardo and Maria, Rika and Kanji, Dao Ming Se and San Cai, most recently, Kang Joon-sang and Jung Yoo-jin.
North Asian soap operas started taking root in Indonesia more than a decade ago but reached fever pitch around three years back with Taiwan's phenomenally successful Meteor Garden series. Post-Meteor Garden, Asian TV melodrama continues to win the hearts of Indonesian audiences, especially with the arrival of Korean fare.
However, Gufron said that Indosiar, with its popular series like Japan's Tokyo Love Story, Meteor Garden and South Korean's Winter Sonata, still aired mostly local content.
Recently, singer-cum-TV-actress Agnes Monica made her debut in a Taiwanese drama, starring against local heartthrob Jerry Yan, who played Dao Ming Se in Meteor Garden.
An ambitious entertainer with a tough new job, Agnes reportedly did not let her fellow Indonesians down. Despite the language problems -- primarily the difficulty she had learning Mandarin -- she found the Taiwanese crew were satisfied with her professionalism.
And apparently, she was also technically great at the soap actors' staple trick. No, not casting meaningful glances -- the other one -- crying -- with even the great Yan moved by her ability to produce crocodile tears on command.
full article here
http://www.thejakartapost.com/detailfeatures.asp?fileid=20060210.R06&irec=6
credits to onlyf4
Feb 10, 2006
Soap stars leap cultural borders
The stories are universal: Lots of tears and arduous struggles for love, spruced up with extreme, opposing characters.
Nevertheless, the faces, the names and the languages are different -- there's Eduardo and Maria, Rika and Kanji, Dao Ming Se and San Cai, most recently, Kang Joon-sang and Jung Yoo-jin.
North Asian soap operas started taking root in Indonesia more than a decade ago but reached fever pitch around three years back with Taiwan's phenomenally successful Meteor Garden series. Post-Meteor Garden, Asian TV melodrama continues to win the hearts of Indonesian audiences, especially with the arrival of Korean fare.
However, Gufron said that Indosiar, with its popular series like Japan's Tokyo Love Story, Meteor Garden and South Korean's Winter Sonata, still aired mostly local content.
Recently, singer-cum-TV-actress Agnes Monica made her debut in a Taiwanese drama, starring against local heartthrob Jerry Yan, who played Dao Ming Se in Meteor Garden.
An ambitious entertainer with a tough new job, Agnes reportedly did not let her fellow Indonesians down. Despite the language problems -- primarily the difficulty she had learning Mandarin -- she found the Taiwanese crew were satisfied with her professionalism.
And apparently, she was also technically great at the soap actors' staple trick. No, not casting meaningful glances -- the other one -- crying -- with even the great Yan moved by her ability to produce crocodile tears on command.
full article here
http://www.thejakartapost.com/detailfeatures.asp?fileid=20060210.R06&irec=6
credits to onlyf4
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