{"id":42159,"date":"2026-04-06T14:27:39","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T06:27:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=42159"},"modified":"2026-04-06T14:27:39","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T06:27:39","slug":"i-bowed-100-times-every-day-star-searchs-gladys-bay-on-south-koreas-work-culture-on-set","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=42159","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><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<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, a nod, or even a just an 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<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.channelnewsasia.com\/entertainment\/gladys-bay-south-korea-work-culture-100-bows-6038421\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"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&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42160,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dam.mediacorp.sg\/image\/upload\/s--sPEiiOjG--\/c_crop,h_716,w_1273,x_1,y_33\/c_fill,g_auto,h_676,w_1200\/f_auto,q_auto\/v1\/mediacorp\/cna\/image\/2024\/12\/16\/gladys_bay_star_search_2024.png?itok=CmLKGsJM","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[545,12771,1332,269,19805,5657,19804,1814,5246,297,286,1451],"class_list":["post-42159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-news-sg-global","tag-bay","tag-bowed","tag-culture","tag-day","tag-gladys","tag-koreas","tag-searchs","tag-set","tag-south","tag-star","tag-times","tag-work","wpcat-2-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42159\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/42160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}