Uh oh, press freedom is already bad. These sneaky Korean journalists will make the organisers and government furious!

Reminds me of some of the Mass Games stuff I saw in PyongYang last year...

AjS

Let's boycott korean camera crews!

Looks like it was taken down a few minutes ago.
I knew that would happen so I watched it as soon as I saw the link today. (That's why you should always log on to Danwei first when turning on your computer!) In my opinion, it did indeed appear as if Kim Jong-Il choreographed the show instead of Zhang Yimou.

First the Hong Kong media embarasses Beijing and now the South Koreans. How is the poor western media going to top all of that? Sorry Wall Street Journal, simply opening a laptop at a press conference to show BOCOG that the BBC and Apple Daily is blocked in China only gets you the bronze medal this week!

Woops, it's currently unplayable and the Supersite page is blank. Has it been yanked by netnanny?

try this maybe: mms://newsvod.sbs.co.kr/nw/0123/nw0123c203089.asf

please don't spoil the fun. It may be good to resist posting such videos.

The opening ceremony looks fabulous. I don't think 'leaking' is a big deal since there were already thousands of people who had seen it live in the stadium. However, it's a problem that the video was leaked by a media that may have signed confidential contract with IOC.

I guess any ceremony involving a large number of people is automatically called the North Korean style?

Let's see how the SMART british and the BRILLIANT americans (whenever they get awarded the Olympics again) manage to do it with one person.

China can do without cynical foreigners.

That should be BRILLIANT British and SMART Americans.
The Pyongyang style stadium ceremony involves masses of people flashing and flipping cards. No country on Earth currently does that better than North Korea, so let's hope China can outdo their neighboring communist dictatorship comrades.
One of the enduring memories of the Los Angeles Olympics opening ceremony featured one single person flying around the stadium by use of a rocket jet-pack on his back.
By the way, USA has hosted two of the last six summer Olympics (1984 and 1996). Let's see how long our great grandchildren's grandchildren wait before China gets it again.

SBS is Sha Bi's. (傻B)

Spelunker,

Really? I recall seeing a lot of people in both LA and Atlanta. Maybe the Americans are so smart that they managed to use just one person yet convincing the world that somehow there were tons of people. Americans are truly SMART.

The US will probably host 80 of the next 100 Olympics, the question is, who the hell cares?

Korea couldn't possibly bring more shame to itself!! they even claimed that Yao Ming is the descendant of some prominent family in Korea!! go get a life~~

Dicky, now you come to mention it....

I guess the Koreans have no limit in achieving the ultimate state of being shameless...