There’s a story out there which may or may not be an Urban Legend, and I’m wondering if anyone knows either way.
It’s been claimed that the TV show “Joanie Loves Chachi” was one of the top-rated American TV shows on Korean TV, and that I was popular because the names of the characters were Koreanised in such a way that the name of the character Chachi sounded more like 조지, the kiddie term for penis. Now, Chachi doesn’t sound like 조지 to me, but sometimes English gets transliterated into Hangeul in ways that mystify me, so I can’t be a hundred percent sure it’s not true. In any case, I’m wondering if you ever saw this show, or heard about it in the context of the title arousing curiosity about a girl who loves 조지. Truthfully, it sounds far-fetched but what I really would like is enough evidence to verify or falsify the rumor either way over on Snopes.com, an urban-legend-related site where people check to see if such a story is true or false.
Here’s the Snopes.com page on this subject. If you know anything, you can contact them yourself, of course, or you can contact me and I’ll pass on to them whatever I get.
