WTF – Ddung Ddung!

Filed as: Korea FTW! // Responses: 57

This week we’re playing with Ddung Perfume and Ddung Footcream. Why…oh why is there a product line named Dung? You might remember a short while ago we did our Korean Party Time edition and were confused a bit by the Poo card. Why someone would want to give someone a poo card was beyond us. People were kind enough to inform us that Poo is considered a sign of good luck, because if you had a lot of manure back in the day, then you’d have a good farm and good crops, which would mean that you would, in turn, be very prosperous. And so, the appreciation of poo has carried on into today.

Why it’s marketed to people who don’t do farm work is beyond us, though. Come on! Poo’s not in fashion anymore! That’s like, soooooo 1800s! Ah, we don’t know. Maybe there’s something else to it and why it’s still considered cute. I mean, seriously now, when’s the last time you looked at a turd and thought it was cute? You know what…don’t answer that.

On to the products themselves. The Ddung perfume wasn’t that good. Sorry if you use it yourself, but we’re not fond of the smell. It smells like European grandma. We both have European grandmas and we know what they smell like, and they smell like Ddung perfume. I’m not sure what Korean grandmas smell like. We’ve never smelled one. On that note: is there any smell that you can clearly associate with Korean grandmas?

The Ddung foot cream wasn’t as bad. It didn’t smell terrible. It was pepperminty. We actually put a bit of it on Simon’s foot as well, and it resulted in a very smooth and luxurious feeling man-foot, and if that’s not a selling point than we don’t know what is!

What is Ddung

What is Ddung? We read this and still don't know

Holy crap we just Googled Ddung and found out that they have their own website! It’s got bits of Engrish in there and everything. Oh joy of joys! We….don’t know…we don’t know what to do with this. And turns out their online shop sells lots of Ddung dolls, all for a ridiculous price of $80+ US. We don’t see any Ddung cream though. Hmm. Wonder why. Maybe because this is for the Canadian and American shop, and there are laws against selling perfumes and foot cream online? Who knows. Does anyone have any more experience with this?

Actually, looking at the dolls you gotta admit that they are kinda cute, and the drawings of the Ddung angel are cute as well. One of them even has Martina’s headphones! Seems like we’re slowly being converted over to the charms of Ddung. If only she had a better name! She goes by Dee Dee! That would have been so much better!

Anyhow, that’s it for now. Thank you so much to Won San for sending us these products. We’re glad to see that other people are still in awe of the cool things you can find in Korea. We also go the Ddung Lip Tint, but we didn’t talk about that in the video, because Martina actually likes it after trying it out and we don’t wanna give that one away. It’d be odd to ship used lip tint overseas! We do play around with it a bit on camera, so check out our Blooper footage to see us talk about that a bit. Also, we just got shipped something awesome to us recently (*wink wink if you’re reading this, you know who you are!*), and we’re really looking forward to reviewing that one. We won’t spoil the surprise though, but it is something that people have wanted us to talk about. That’s all we’ll say!

  • cyn

    omg Youre right! that Ddung website is so cute!! Their mini cartoons are actually funny!

  • Sally

    "You know you've really stepped in it this time"….crickets chirping. Lolz.

    What a shame that cute perfume bottle contained such *stank*. I must say however, that Iris are NOT known for sweet scent. In fact it's quite bitter…like..um say..some strains of Carnation have a really tweeky acidic reek. Very peculiar choice for a perfume base. (fyi – I mix essential oils for handmade soaps) so I kinda know what mixes and what doesn't…never ordered any Iris, 'cause I know it's funky.

    As for the Grandma smell – nuthing says Nana like Jergens Hand Lotion ™ …creating granny-waft ~ since the 1920's.
    p.s. peppermint for the turd-foot cream- actually peppermint is very good for circulation and relief of swelling, so it IS in fact a very good choice for a foot cream, even though it doesn't match with the name – dung. ha!

    • Jonathan in Florida

      I was hoping they were going to break into a chorus of "Itaewon Freedom" to defuse the awkwardness…

  • Sucaji

    The poo thing is weird. Super Junior did a movie where the central plot was poo-tossing, basically (high school kids were getting poo thrown at them and suddenly becoming famous and rich because of it. So three kids from this high school went about trying to be poo'd, so they could be famous too). I really don't get it. Though, at the least in the movie they didn't act like the poo was cute, they had the correct reaction of retching/horror after getting poo'd. There were poo hats though, and news coverage on the poo.

    • strigoiaca

      I LOVE THIS MOVIE NO MATTER HOW CRAZY THE PLOT!

    • Anonymous

      It was supposed to be a satire of idol culture in Korea, though it’s hard for that to work when the main audience is the driving force behind that idol culture, the stars of the movie are the beneficiaries of that idol culture, and the irony is totally lost on many of the audience, if not all of them. Then again, irony could be a bigger part of Korean humour than I know for.

  • Jessie

    Watched your bloopers..

    You prolly could use the red lip tint to start painting…random things…sea shells? Would it be good for halloween?

  • Bridgette

    Awww Martina you were so cute in the end!! You have so much aegyo~ Your face was like (3:)

  • Bridgette

    Ehehe, sorry I meant like this

    3:

  • Chu

    Hi~ Siman and Martina.
    You guys are so curious about many Korean products. haha~

    Do you know about that cartoon charact(Ddung)?
    The name "Ddung", I think, doesn't mean poo.
    It's not poo marketing.

    You should know difference between 똥 and 뚱
    It's difficult to write two word's pronunciation in English.
    These two word have similar pronunciation.

    "똥" means poo. right.
    But "ëš±" means sour feeling, I think.

    You konw, little girl character "Ddung" has sour face.
    Normally many Koreans use "Ddung(뚱)" as a adjective(뚱한).
    "뚱한 얼굴" means sour face.

    • Anonymous

      An older-style romanization might be “ddoong”. The mistake made here is that “ddung” looks a lot like “dung”.

  • strigoiaca

    I will totally ask my dongsaeng (not actually dongsaeng because we aren't blood related at all but he calls me his noona so it works) what a Korean grandma smells like. Also you two are really adorable. also is this what you are talking about Martina? http://www.canadadrugs.com/prescription/pop_up.ph…

  • James

    Please, would someone explain to me why I often hear how Korea is Global this and Global that and bla bla bla, yet people(English speakers) from around the world can't easily purchase Korean music via download? Again today, there was another article via the Korea Times which has Psy explaining why Korean music "fails in the U.S." http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/biz/2011/04/…
    Why doesn't Psy make his music available through itunes? He should stop complaining and take the initiative so that his music and other Korean music doesn't "fail." Don't you think the first(easy) step would be to introduce Korean music to the world, making it available via itunes like 22 other REAL global countries? Heck, even Japan thinks globally through itunes. Why did Rain and the Wondergirls try to tour America when their music couldn't even be purchased via itunes? Google itunes top ten to see the 22 REAL global countries

    • http://www.eatyourkimchi.com Simon and Martina

      Err, I know a bunch of Kpop artists do sell their music via iTunes, including other members of YG Entertainment, such as Big Bang. I don’t think that they’re excluding their music from their intentionally. They WANT to sell as much of it as possible. It’s either an issue with some regulations in play, or just someone in middle management forgot to put it up there…

      • Petirrojo57

        Err… and more to the point, Psy is on iTunes as well! (never think to check that out, James?) and here’s the URL to prove it! http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/psyfive/id400815514 I might also point out that Soribada has launched an English-language site for sales in the US and tunes are available at dirt cheap prices so you can wallow in K-pop goodness (or badness if that’s your preference) to your heart’s content!

    • Anonymous

      Psy is off-base on this one. Even if the English were completely perfect, there’s still a nationality barrier, as well as a certain snobbish attitude towards pop music in America. Look at Take That: easily one of the great pop acts to come from Britain at any time, and they’re popular worldwide — except in the US.

  • http://twitter.com/DirtPoorTweet @DirtPoorTweet

    Martina, was the product you were trying to think of IcyHot? It made me laugh so hard. What is she trying to say?!

  • Kaina

    I have watched this ..i don't know..about 100 times. and i'm still rofling so hard :D you guys are awesome I love you videos. you just made ma day with this one xD

  • http://www.twitter.com/ramyunaddict jojii

    LMAO @ Martina 4:00

  • http://www.emmuh.com Emma

    There’s a twonkle twonkle mirror set at Daiso :)

  • Dave Freeland

    i think it’s called deep freeze… is that what you mean?

    • http://www.eatyourkimchi.com Simon and Martina

      Nah, that’s not the one…

  • Anonymous

    SO cute i really like watching the episodes from the link you posted it’s so funny XDD

  • KARUMA1101

    LOVE YOU GUYS!! CAN YOU DO ONE FOR X-5?

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1472518334 Rachel Clark

    hmm.. sparkles and smells like old people… i’m sensing a twilight joke. . . nooo! must, resist, teenage girl urges. . .

  • Gnarly Nalz

    yeah i definately think you were thinking about icy hot

  • Ava

    Umm Biofreeze? The injury gel you were talking about…

Tagged As:

, , ,

Yay! You Like Us!

Resources

ToFebruary
The Arrival Store intuned Learn Korean Online Ongo Food
Oh My Precious

Kpop Album of the Week

T-Shirt of the Week