May 20, 2008
VAMPIRE/흡혈귀
i asked 경애 some months ago: what's the korean word for vampire?
(that'd be, "vampire 한국어로 뭐예요?")
and she told me there wasn't a korean word for "vampire".
i'll never forgive her. because there IS a korean word for vampire, and it's 흡혈귀. you see it above in the image, written out for me by artist sunkoo yuh, when i visited him in his studio in athens georgia for an article for KQ. i'll always keep this, because it's the only "original" sunkoo yuh i'm going to be able to afford for some years to come.
sunkoo does not particularly like vampires, and all the fangs in his work, he told me, are more guardian-oriented than vampire-oriented. korean culture is someone lacking in vampire lore. i reviewed a really bad k-drama called freeze (nicely transliterated hangul title: 프리즈) that went a long way to proving this. the only good thing about 프리즈 was its very, very handsome star. oh, i'm hardly the only one who thinks so... watch this korean tv clip about 프리즈 and you may soon be asking yourself, "'spontaneous orgasm by a television host' 한국어로 뭐예요?"