Koreans React to American PSAs FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER

#Reaction #koreans #americanpsa

Hello everyone :)
What do you guys think of PSAs? and what are their importances?
Today we watched some US PSAs that surprised some Koreans!
What kind of cultural differences do we have?

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Again, thank you for watching and we'll see you again next time!

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[lilyrose-moiy]

The second psa never fails to make me feel unsafe or on edge

[sheabuchmeier]

As someone who has survived a school shooting (IA, East high school) I’m so glad to see how well these men responded to the messages. Rather than just brushing it off as Americans arguing about guns as they tend to do, they were able to see the underlying intentions of the PSA’s, despite a language barrier and difference in culture. Very observant guys, they’re the good type who will hopefully help bring good change to wherever they live now.

[newgrl]

Bullying is a serious issue, but cannot totally explain the actions of a child that walks into school and shoots everyone in sight. More attention needs to be paid to mental illness in the young with access to real mental health professionals for poor students available.

[samsgirl]

It's amazing to watch a different culture react to one of the most horrifying aspects of the US. School shootings are so common here, we have been desensitized to it. 😔

[Stealthspy]

These men are hitting the nail on the head with their guesswork and they've likely never even stepped foot in the USA. Very astute and intelligent people.

[IzzyKawaiichi]

As an American who went to American high school and went through lockdown drills like everyone else, what I will say about the "quiet kids" is that it mostly refers specifically to kids who don't talk to people and resist social interaction. It's not usually because people won't talk to them. Usually there are already psychosocial issues involved. In my grade, there were probably two kids who were on everyone's radar as "if someone does it..." Thankfully, nothing ever happened, but the year after I graduated, the school went on lockdown because of a threatening note. Two other kids had been bullied (allegedly) for years because they were... weird. Then they abducted and dismembered a dog. They had been arrested, and one kid stayed in jail but the other was bailed out by his mother (the school secretary) and returned to school. Predictably, the bullying worsened-- because who does that?-- and he's the one who wrote the note, although it was determined to be a lie as he didn't actually have any weapons.
When mass shootings happen, it's usually kids who already had issues. Bullied kids target their bullies. Mass shooters are out for anyone.

[tpk]

its funny that he mentioned a mom dressing her kid in a bulletproof vest because there are literally bulletproof backpacks for sale here

[Mary-shbp]

I grew up in the Philippines and the USA. Never did I watch a school shooting PSA back in the Philippines. We would do fire drills and earthquake drills, but that’s about it. Then, I came here and when I was in 8th grade, that’s when we were all gathered in the school gym and watched the Columbine shooting. That was my first real awakening of gun violence here in the USA. As years pass, there were Virginia Tech Massacre, Sandy Hook, Florida shootings, Las Vegas shooting, and sadly, many more. It is such a huge problem now. I have many friends that are considering home schooling for their kids now. My middle school and HS didn’t even have school gates or high fences when my siblings and I went there. Now, not only are there gate and tall metal fences, there are also police officers assigned there now and K-9 that are patrolling weekly. The US is a beautiful and proud country. When you see us, we smile as a greeting. It’s not a perfect country, but there’s ni such thing as a perfect country.

[ayanoaishi]

I love seeing how people react to it. Instead of just brushing it off they took the matter seriously even though it doesn’t really happen in Korea. I think that’s very mature and goes to show that people should be taking things like this as seriously as they do!

[minshooky]

I'm watching this after the Uvalde tragedy...this is a REAL problem here in the states, a true nightmare. I'm a mommy of two boys that are still too young for school...

[jenapodaca]

Im a high school student in the US. These issues are absolutely serious. About a month or two ago someone brought a loaded pistol to my high school. Yesterday someone brought a loaded gun to a middle school about 5 miles from my house. They were even prepared with a hit-list. Today threats were made to my high school. They said that the school will be bombed about an hour and a half from now. Today is the last day of my high school career and I have to live through it terrified. We need help.

[teresaromero]

I'm a quiet kid myself I barely have any friends myself but I kinda think that's how we want to stay. It's also really hard to interact with people I will tell you though when people talk to me I get quite happy.

[moccalou]

Dang. I was only in 6th grade when Columbine happened. I'm glad that it took so many more years for things to get really bad because by the time I got out of high school in 2005, there still weren't active shooter drills or anything to make us feel unsafe. I feel bad for kids nowadays. But I also wonder why there are so many messed up kids in the first place. The workplace shootings and violence haven't gone up. Why school? Too many glorified attention-seeking Columbine copycats? Too much mental illness? Too much access to disturbing information? Who knows.

[urban_fox]

I took these videos at face value, not as propaganda bc I didn't know they were political messages about banning guns and, most likely, neither did these guys.
I think that's why they were able to hit the mark and respond to the HUMAN issue and not the GUN issue ... which was spot on, btw.

[stonent]

Should have done the "this is your brain on drugs" egg video. There's the fried egg video and the one about heroin where the girl destroys the kitchen.

[anonnnymousthegreat]

Mass shootings in america doesn’t just happen in schools. It pretty much happens everywhere, grocery stores, malls, movie theaters, churches, etc…you literally could be at the store just to buy something like a pack of gum and end up as a victim of a mass shooting in a split second. And that’s because you were just in the wrong place at the wrong time by chance.

[JTheGuideBV]

Some people say it's propaganda, but for me who live in country that have same law like these two gents, it is actually proper way to raise other's awareness about the social isolation other person might had endured.

Problem is do you care to talk with silent kid in the back seat? XD

[mingbing]

It's sad that PSA's about shooting in school have become the norm.
Just this week, 19 children in elementary school, plus 2 adults lost their lives after a guy entered the school and began shooting.

[cherylmarquez]

Every school has their little klicks & snobs as we called them back in the day. If someone is quiet & doesn't talk to many people, how many of you will take the time to talk to them first instead of waiting for them to talk to you first. How many kids are very shy or feel unaccepted? It's time to stop the bullies and act like they had nothing to do with making somebody feel worthless. Kids can be CRUEL, more so than adults because adults think about how to treat other people.

[petepal]

Teach your kids, don't let the world beat you to it.