Braden TS #10

Today Dojun and I talked about how the Olympics had started, but people didn't seem to care as much about it this year, ourselves included. It's a little harder to get excited about it when it's been more than a year since it should have happened. We also had an interesting conversation about how TV worked in the US vs how it worked in Korea. He told me that there are a few major broadcasting channels, and that they are the largest and most famous things to watch on Korean TV. They apparently show a variety of programs, and are kind of different from US channels, which are more specialized. There is also some protest by the Korean people, since one of the broadcasters is funded by the government, and takes a mandatory few dollars on people's electric bills. I taught Dojun about how US channels that show news are often entrenched in one side or the other of the political spectrum, and how much people get fired up about different broadcasters here.