WTF – Korean Self Massager

Filed as: Korea FTW! // Responses: 51

For this week’s Wonderful Treasure Find we try to figure out how to not paralyze ourselves.

Yes, we are joking. We’re not afraid of paralyzing ourselves. We just have no clue how to properly use this Korean self back massager thingy. We’ve seen our co-teachers using things like this before, and so we tried one out ourselves, but it doesn’t feel good. At all. Doesn’t feel good one bit. We’re convinced that it’s because we don’t know how to use it properly. There probably are some parts of your back into which it would feel absolutely great and relaxing to dig a hard plastic tip, but we just don’t know where those parts are hiding. Martina’s more convinced that it’ used to beat yourself in the back, rather than to dig yourself in the back, but the way that she tried out hurt her as well. Altogether, we’re not impressed, and we’re a little bit sore as well.

We think this kinda goes along with that Korean Foot Massage we subjected ourselves to. Those massages were excruciatingly painful, so much so that Martina was actually crying in the massage. This idea of pain=healing, or something along those lines, is no fun. Massages should be soothing, a little painful at times, but not all around pain. See, some people will argue that after you’ve endured the pain, you feel great afterwards, and so that’s the whole point of the massage, but that’s RUBBISH! It’s not the pain that makes you feel good, but the fact that you’re not in pain anymore that you’re happy about, it’s the contrast that gives the effect. Think of it this way: eat a burger. Seems like a decent, normal burger, yeah? Now go to jail for 30 years and eat crap. Then, when you’re free, eat a burger. ISN’T THAT BURGER THE MOST DELICIOUS BURGER OF YOUR LIFE?!?! Now, it’s not the burger that’s awesome. It’s no better than before. It’s just the fact that you’ve suffered for so long that you enjoy the burger more than before. Same with Korean massages. You get tortured for a long time, and the good feelings afterwards are those of freedom more than anything else.

Bah! That’s our opinion at least. Anyhow, does anyone know where we can find an instruction manual for these thingies? Hopefully with diagrams that show us where are the best parts to use this thing. I’m sure some people know how to use it well. Help people! Show us what to do here!

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monkeypoo

I love you guys. You are my Monday staple. All part of a balanced diet. Awesome awesome playing of Props. Colin, Ryan, Wayne, and co. would be proud.
Summer

Haha Daiso is actually a Japanese store. We have one in Vancouver =] When I went to Korea and went to a Daiso they sold the exact same things as Vancouver. They also sold the same things in a Daiso in Seattle. My friend's in Kyoto right now and she says all the things in the Daiso there are the same too.

Summer

Oh and WLiiA is AMAZING. Colin went to my high school and university =D

Dan

After the whole Xena reference I was walking around with the mental picture …"Oh look … Xena used her super special ancient-greece martial arts and made Mars pee himself (…..and all the other gods laughed)". You guys really are the best. If I'm lucky and get the job I'm applying for over there, you'll have to let me take you out for drinks or something.

http://www.eatyourkimchi.com Eatyourkimchi

Thanks Dan :D Drinks it is! Send us an email when you're finally here.

Tracy

Haha I love this video XD…. even though I was living in Korea, I haven't seen that massage tool .. in my life.. ever ! XD…
http://twitter.com/J_Katie @J_Katie

Whose Line is it Anyways, greatest show ever. Your Koreanized version comes in a distantly close second, since no one can replace the original. Also, I saw the forever alone guy you put in there Simon, you guys must spend more time on tumblr than I thought you did. :)

You guys look so much more western on your first few pixelated videos; Martina's hair is all long and what not Simon doesn't have a mohawk. you guys dress more western-ish. It's funny how much can change in a few years.

Before Martina leaves her teaching position you guys should make one final video about teaching, the one you have in the archives is probably my favorite video out of them all.

One final thing: kind of nit-picky but when you do the K-Pop Music Mondays, when you show Martina you should adjust the tri-pod/camera and move it up a little or zoom in a bit more, there's a bit to much headroom above her. And this comment is what I get for a year and half worth of Broadcast Journalism classes.

Whoever (Simon, I think) edits the videos, is a pro at it, like you should be an editor for a move or whatever. I always appreciate it because I know how frustrating it was learning Premiere (iMovie was just belch), and how long, tedious, and even more frustrated you can get while capturing the footage and editing. And the website, coding/HTML and pretty much everything is always top notch. Well, I really could go on and on about how wonderful Eat Your Kimchi is but I don't wanna take away any planning/filming/capturing/editing time away from you.
http://twitter.com/Pmwaller @Pmwaller

I think I remember Dr. Oz (One of Oprah's many upstarts) showing a product similar to this a while back.
http://profile.yahoo.com/WD6ZEMUYTF6CHBX3KLKJRQ74FY HughJorgan

I’m not sure why anyone would think that the beak/icepick feature is a good idea, but if you were to dremel it off you’d end up with something similar to a “theracane”. Find one and open the happy!

Check this out for some learnin’ and LULZ:
http://www.theracane.com/TCmanual_English.pdf