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Thank you for the compliment

LOL so true :)

I always wondered if the coffee places are real places, but since I don't live in Korea I don't know. Something to note, just because something constantly reappears in dramas doesn't necessarily mean they are real. For example, central perk in friends wasn't a real place, yet they were there like every episode. Though it is a great placement for coffee shops if they are real.

:) It certainly does. I think that the phone should match the person's situation. If they want to keep the same brand that is fine with me, but maybe the could try a lower end phone in their range. Who knows could be a good marketing strategy to get lower socioeconomic class to buy the brand?

Thanks you for your compliment :). I only learnt that Samsung was Korean, when I started watching dramas. I am not very techie either, and that kind of stuff just went over my head. Someone had to point it out to me as well.

:) LOL that is an excellent example. It really just makes me laugh when product placement is just so obvious and in your face. It just shows that product placement is a worldwide thing, and that producers/directors still haven’t gotten the right mix yet. I have seen a few examples like this in the past, mainly in western show thou.

:) Agreed one of the things that make a placement good for me is that they show features rather than just a product. Them displaying the fact that the phone comes in many different colours is a feature, which intern makes it stand out more in a good way.

To The Beautiful You had so much product placement that I couldn't even manage to fit it all. I noticed a few other placements, I am pretty sure that the face cream that Kang Tae Joon gives to Goo Jae Hee is a placement as well, but since I am not an expert on Korean products I am not sure.

Sometimes I think product placements are slowly brain washing me. Since recently I am finding myself becoming a Samsung fan, but that could also be due to other factors. Similarly to you it doesn't bother me.

Glad you agree :)

Your instincts are probably right.

You make exceedingly good points. I have always wondered if some of the restaurants/food products where real places, but seeing as I am not Korean or ever been I couldn't tell. It really doesn't surprise me thou. You pointed out an intriguing point about product placement. You mentioned that there are no well-done product placements, as all of them make you conscious of product placements. This is a key issue with placements, advertisers want you to notice otherwise there is no point, but once it is noticed it makes the audience feel wronged. So it is basically a catch 22 situation. I personally think that there is a huge potential for advertisers to get the right mix, but I think that with most things it will take time. I can’t comment thou on J-dramas as I haven’t actually seen any.

I think product placements works, I recently find myself thinking that I should buy myself a Samsung, because it is a exceptionally good brand. Now I don't know if that is because of other factors or because dramas have slowly brain washed me.

Funny that you mention BOF, for a bit I was wondering if anycall mobile was real. Side Note: I was tempted to place it in this article. It had a few placements for some major cars companies.

:) This article has a lot of good points. I can see myself agreeing with it all! Only I tend to watch a drama between 2-3, I can't force my self to stay up all night :(. I've only ever had one dramathon, and it was for BOF couple of months ago. But that was more of a social thing were me and my best friends did it together, cause we love BOF!

I was so disappointed that daesung wasn't the lead. Now I know the difference when a profile says main and not lead :'(

Does any one know what happened? I heard so much about it and then nothing....