I bought a Hong Gil Dong VCD at Poh Kim last Sunday. All discs except the first and last 4 discs are defected, chinese subtitle and original korean speech dont tally in some of the scenes.


For example:

Actual Speech : Last Sunday, I bought Hong Gil Dong VCD at Poh Kim.
But the subtitle reads: Last Sunday, I


Its quite obvious its an incomplete sentence. And then I'll have to pause and rewind and switch to chinese voiceover, just to catch what they said.


And sometimes....

Actual speech (Role A) : What do you intend to do with her?
Actual speech (Role B) : She must die, no matter what. She knows too much, including the sword.

Chinese subtitles reads:
Role A : What do you
Role B : She must die. Including the sword.



Its very very irritating.



I approached the staff(a brown girl by the name of Audrey) at Liang Court Poh Kim, trying to explain the defect. There were no customers in the shop, she was watching a hong kong drama. Apparently unhappy being disturbed from her show, she attended to me and tested the VCD on the spot. The first disc that I passed to her was, amazingly, perfectly fine, so I passed her another disc which I remembered to have that problem.

She started watching the disc from the beginning, worried that she's really going to watch the whole episode, I requested to fast forward to the middle of the episode where its more likely to spot the problem with the subtitles. She fast forward the WHOLE DISC, without stopping at any scenes to check, and then looking back at me with that slowly-blinking eyes.

"I dont see any problem with this disc."


OF COURSE YOU DONT SEE IT IF YOU FAST FORWARD THE WHOLE EPISODE, BABE.


Attempted to re-explain the problem but it didnt get into her though, she repeated 3 times that "There has never been anyone complaining before about this".

I was smiling through gritted teeth, "This is the first time I have a problem with Poh Kim Vcds too."

"So its the first time you are buying VCDs la?"

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"What I'm trying to say is, I've bought Poh Kim VCDs before and has never had this kind of problem."

"Ya. And nobody has ever complained about this before. You are the first one."




YA YA YA FIRST ONE WHATEVER. COME ON IF I'M HERE TO CHEAT FOR ANOTHER SET, WHY WOULD I ASK FOR THE SAME DRAMA?


Unwillingly, she switched another set of VCDs for me. I asked her if there's still problem with this set, will I be able to change it.

"Maybe."

"...."
"Maybe means, can change or cannot change?"


Whats so difficult for a yes/no answer!? Anyway, her reply was that if I'm gonna change disc to disc, I can do it back at her shop but if I wana change to DVD version, need to go back to PS and "ask them to settle".

If you're interested to know, the new set still has the same problem. I'm going to bring it back to Poh Kim @ PS tml, wonder if I'll get the same attitude service. Did I just said the word service? Forget I said that.

If they're not okay to change, I'm totally fine with it. $19.90 for 1 set, I dont expect much. But swear I'm gonna tell the whole world about it (which I already did) and never ever gonna get even a 5 dollar disc from them again.