I once had a coworker who was an outspoken vegan; she said she made an active choice not to eat dead things. If I actually had a smartphone at that time, I would have shown her this scene from Oldboy.
It turns out this is a real thing in Korea. It’s called san-Nakji, and while it’s usually just octopus tentacles cut off as soon as possible after the octopus in question is killed (and still moving because the nervous system of an octopus is a very strange thing), But doing what Oh DAe-Su is doing here isn’t unheard of.
Choi Min-Sik, a devout Buddhist, said a prayer for each of the octopi he had to eat (four in all) during the filming of that scene. But, hey, at least he wasn’t eating anything dead.
It turns out this is a real thing in Korea. It’s called san-Nakji, and while it’s usually just octopus tentacles cut off as soon as possible after the octopus in question is killed (and still moving because the nervous system of an octopus is a very strange thing), But doing what Oh DAe-Su is doing here isn’t unheard of.
Choi Min-Sik, a devout Buddhist, said a prayer for each of the octopi he had to eat (four in all) during the filming of that scene. But, hey, at least he wasn’t eating anything dead.
Comparing the Universal Oneness of All Life to Yo Mama since 2010.
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I was born with the gift of laughter and a sense the world is mad.
I was born with the gift of laughter and a sense the world is mad.
