Also, the people making the videos usually can’t give you any useful feedback because of language barriers and/or because giving feedback to foreign actors that you usually work with one or two times per project is not a high priority. Their lines are also typically written in Korean first and then translated, usually by someone who is not fluent in either Korean or the other language, leading to stilted or awkward writing.Ĭasting calls involving foreigners are literally advertised weeks or even days or hours before shoots in Korea (go to Craigslist Seoul if you don’t believe me lol) and the actors are often told very little about the project they are working on making it pretty difficult to prepare.įoreign actors are not paid very much (100 to 400 a day on days when you get a gig which is like 10 to 15 days a month if you are lucky). well enough to realize when an actor is reading a line in a weird way, or will even specifically ask them to read it in a way that does not sound natural to speakers of that language. The crew, director and editors often do not speak English or in this case Arabic Chinese Russian Spanish Danish etc. Scenes shot with foreign actors are typically shot in one or two days to minimize costs (costumes, makeup, feedback from directors etc are a lot more chaotic when there are people who don’t speak Korean fluently - which is most foreign actors - on set so often there will be someone translating) So the actors have fewer chances to fix a scene if they did it oddly the first time. But yeah they are generally going to have almost zero acting training compared to Korean actors who usually go to school for this from a young age (often middle school or younger). It’s a decent gig if you can get it - nothing against them. Usually they’re part time models who came as teachers or students and married locally or got recruited by agencies. Most foreign actors in Korean media are not trained professionals.

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