Subs Vs Dubs

Lee Jung-jae, along with his co-star HoYeon Jung, have been launched to international stardom with the breakout hit Squid Game premiering on Netflix. In the show, Jung-jae looks pretty lovable and shaggy, but for this shoot you can see what makes him popular at home in South Korea.

If I need to tell you what Squid Game is at this point, I don’t know how to help you. But I’ll try. The indebted dregs of society are invited to an exclusive bloodsport gameshow held for the pleasure of anonymous billionaires. The players have an opportunity to win an obscene amount of money, but there can only be one winner. Losers get disposed of and cremated.
It’s a fun ride with plenty of high tension moments, and definitely deserving of all the hype it’s caught.

With the release of Squid Game came the inevitable war of whether you should watch it with subtitles or dubbed.

Then, bizarrely closed captions got dragged into the fray, as non-hard of hearing turned it on to experience a strangely diluted experience of the show that changed characters completely in some cases due to wild inaccuracy of the translation. The kicker is that the standard subtitles don’t match the dub, which appears to be based on the closed caption version which people have panned. Let’s do a quick breakdown of the Pros and cons of Subs and Dubs

Subtitles

Who needs to watch the show when you could watch a tiny line of text at the bottom of the screen. If you’re a slow reader, I’m sorry but the conversation is moving on without you. I hope you’re not planning on assembling food at the same time as watching a show either cause you’re straight out of luck there too. On the upside nothing in the room can be so loud as to drown out dialogue, and finally we might actually know what everyone is saying in Tenet. Subtitle watchers are also 20% more refined than dub watching barbarians.

Dub

Turn on the dub to quickly hear what any show would sound like with hammy American accents. The German mystery thriller Dark suddenly becomes a comedy. Even better, why watch anything now when you can half listen to it while getting mad at your timeline instead. It’s the worst of all worlds!

 

Image courtesy of Netflix.