Korean People Seem To Prefer Asian People On Their Superhero Movie Posters

David Cho
The Awl
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1 min readJan 12, 2011

Some people don’t seem to know that the Jay Chou, the Taiwanese person who plays Kato in the new Green Hornet movie is actually somewhat of an Asian megastar! This might be why on the Korean version of the posters (which is the same version that’s being used in other Asian markets), Chou is featured front and center, with Seth Rogen’s big face hiding in the shadows (compared to the new US poster released today, which is just a car). Cameron Diaz, also pretty famous with Koreans, gets a more prominent placement in comparison to the American poster, where she’s not featured at all.

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David Cho
The Awl

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