This banner popped up in my News Feed today. A debate contest on Sex Rights with a provocative and daring slogan: “Sex Right? Speak Out! Scared of What?”
Scale the human touch in advertising
This should be a story of how brands and companies can balance the human and technology elements in not only their marketing strategies but also their R&D activities
Reality Shows – How TV industry negotiates with changes in contemporary masculinity. Part 1
Running Man may be the most successful reality-variety show of Korea in the global market until now but it is definitely not the first one of its kind. After the huge success of MBC’s Infinite Challenge, reality-variety shows have been a favoured specialty of Korean TV industry
Decoding “hot girls”: V-line face, S-line nose and some mix-raced “roses”
So V-line, S-line,…or ulzzang look, are not reinventions of beauty. They simply constitute edgier and more standardized versions of beauty elements already favoured by Vietnamese.
Decoding hot girls: All about the Baby Look
Since the prominence of the first “hot girl” in 2005, there have been many changes in characteristics of “hot girls”, reflecting shifts in Vietnamese beauty standards and youth lifestyle.
Infidelity and Gender Dynamics in Vietnam
About two weeks ago, I noticed many of my female friends sharing the same story, titled “Cheating – it could happen anywhere”, on Facebook. The story was originally a forum post on Webtretho, a big online community for Vietnamese mothers with more than 1.4 million users. Ever since it was posted in 2012, the true…
Soviet style in Hanoi
Although Soviet Union was separated in 1991, its traces still remain in Vietnam, especially in Hanoi.
Subsidy era nostalgia
By reminiscing about the Subsidy era, Vietnamese show their resistance toward the present. The idealistic world of the old days is always depicted as a peaceful time when life was simple; virtue and high morality prevailed despite hardship to contrast with today’s corrupting and turbulent world.