Gabe - CP #6 (Dojun)

     We met on zoom again for this meeting. It was kind of funny at first because it was 10 am Eastern time and I was tired so I told him good morning, forgetting it was nighttime for him. We got right into talking about movies, after we talked about how our weekends went and I mentioned that I saw 2 movies. I found out that we both enjoy scary movies, although he prefers the more subtler, less gory variety whereas I like the 80's-type slasher and monster movies as well. I mentioned a couple of Korean horror movies and asked if he had seen them, but he hadn't. Some other movies we talked about were Us, Get Out, Alien, and Parasite. I brought up Squid Game, which he hasn't seen yet, so I told him he really should watch it. We had a pretty funny talk about The Interview, or rather, I told him about it, since he (surprisingly) hadn't heard about it and how it caused an international incident between North Korea and the U.S. We also talked a lot about the state of movie theaters in South Korea vs America. 

    They're pretty much the same, featuring stadium-style seating with some theaters having reserved seating. They've also evolved in similar ways: the older Korean movie theaters, like the American ones, had their seats going very far back on a slightly inclined plane. The main differences have to do with the Covid-19 situation. We had talked last time about how South Korea was just starting to ease restrictions whereas America has had hardly any restrictions for months now. He was still surprised to find out, however, that over here there is no mask enforcement inside them and that they allow seating to their full capacity. He also told me that South Korea had adopted a policy of having its theaters have at least 70% or so of their movies be Korean, but this policy proved to be so unpopular with the public that it was eventually reversed. 

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