{"id":365964,"date":"2026-04-06T07:59:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T07:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/365964\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T07:59:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T07:59:08","slug":"i-bowed-100-times-every-day-star-searchs-gladys-bay-on-south-koreas-work-culture-on-set","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/365964\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;I bowed 100 times every day&#8217;: Star Search\u2019s Gladys Bay on South Korea\u2019s work culture on set"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You never really know how different a country\u2019s work culture is until you actually work there, and for Mediacorp actress Gladys Bay, her recent experience in South Korea has been truly eye-opening.<\/p>\n<p>Or should we say&#8230; back-breaking?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The 29-year-old Star Search 2024 first runner-up was there last year filming K-drama Absolute Value Of Romance, Mediacorp\u2019s first-ever Korean series, co-produced with South Korean video streaming service Coupang Play.<\/p>\n<p>In a recent interview with Zaobao.sg, she shared about how on-set etiquette in South Korea is very different from that in Singapore.<\/p>\n<p>According to Bay, on local sets, a simple hello, nod, or just eye contact is often enough as a greeting.<\/p>\n<p>But that was not at all the case in South Korea.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI bowed 100 times a day on set. This is not an exaggeration. There are about 100 people in the crew, and they place great importance on such etiquette,&#8221; recalled the Under The Net star.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"You never really know how different a country\u2019s work culture is until you actually work there, and for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":365965,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[430,3623,156,39599,111,139,69,4790,94870],"class_list":{"0":"post-365964","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-celebrity","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-mediacorp","12":"tag-new-zealand","13":"tag-newzealand","14":"tag-nz","15":"tag-south-korea","16":"tag-television-movies"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=365964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365964\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/365965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}