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* ThoseTwoGuys: in addition to Josh and Ollie, there are hip-hop artists/rappers Guvna B and Barney Artist, and high schoolers (now in University) Armand and Max, and Major Charles and his twin Reverend Chris. All three sets have a similar dynamic to Josh and Ollie, with Major Charles, Armand, and Guvna B being the more serious, level headed of the pair, and Barney Artist, Max, and Rev. Chris… being like Ollie.
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* {{Corpsing}}: There are multiple examples, whether its the names of some British foods or otherwise.
** What was funnier? Learning that not even ''Korean Englishman'' were immune to the amusingly-named ''Super Dickmanns''... or the fact that Rev. Chris was the first to react?
** Josh giving Ollie Korean lessons. Sometimes... he's just gotta laugh.
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* Leitmotif: Grieg's ''In The Hall Of The Mountain King'' for guests' inevitable reaction to spicy Korean food.

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* Leitmotif: {{Leitmotif}}: Grieg's ''In The Hall Of The Mountain King'' for guests' inevitable reaction to spicy Korean food.
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* Corpsing: There are multiple examples, whether its the names of some British foods or otherwise.

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* Corpsing: {{Corpsing}}: There are multiple examples, whether its the names of some British foods or otherwise.
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* MustHaveCaffeine: Episode 145 of ''JOLLY'' has Josh and Ollie riding quite the caffeine high by the end as they sample the offerings of seven coffee shops in Wellington. Back-to-back.
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* OneSteveLimit: Sho's friend Andy and the music-producer Andy are not the same person.
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* IneffectualLoner: The whole aim of 2019's ''Alone In Korea'' series was to help Ollie ''stop'' being one of these regarding his command and confidence of Korean. Rather than perpetually be on hand with his relatively expert grasp of the language, Josh took Ollie's place behind the camera and employed "guides", such as Eric Nam, to help Ollie utilise what he'd learned on the Korean public in a series of scenarios and challenges.

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* IneffectualLoner: The whole aim of 2019's ''Alone In Korea'' series was to help Ollie ''stop'' being one of these regarding his command of and confidence of in speaking Korean. Rather than perpetually be on hand with his relatively expert grasp of the language, Josh took Ollie's place behind the camera and employed "guides", such as Eric Nam, to help Ollie utilise what he'd learned on the Korean public in a series of scenarios and challenges.
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* IneffectualLoner: The whole aim of 2019's ''Alone In Korea'' series was to help Ollie ''stop'' being one of these regarding his command and confidence of Korean. Rather than perpetually be on hand with his relatively expert grasp of the language, Josh took Ollie's place behind the camera and employed "guides", such as Eric Nam, to help Ollie utilise what he'd learned on the Korean public in a series of scenarios and challenges.
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* Leitmotif: Grieg's ''In The Hall Of The Mountain King'' for guests' inevitable reaction to spicy Korean food.
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* CoordinatedClothes: Averted with identical twin brothers Rev. Chris and Charles. As far as the videos are concerned, they are never seen in clothing even ''close'' to identical, with one being an Anglican priest and the other being a Major in the British Army.

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* CoordinatedClothes: Averted with identical twin brothers Rev. Chris and Charles. As far as the videos are concerned, they are never rarely seen in clothing even ''close'' to identical, with one being an Anglican priest and the other being a Major in the British Army.
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* CutenessOverload: After multiple series showing adults around Korea, one from 2020 has Ollie and his wife bringing their then two-year-old daughter Juno along. As if the episodes themselves weren't enough, the supplementary "Snack Review With Juno"[[note]]The filming for each main episode ended with Josh and Ollie treating Juno to one of the snacks she picked out from a convenience store in an earlier episode[[/note]] mini-series has its own voiced intro... ''by Juno''.

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* CutenessOverload: After multiple series showing adults around Korea, one from 2020 2020[[note]]Filmed back in January, before all of the pandemic-related lockdown measures were implemented worldwide[[/note]] has Ollie and his wife bringing their then two-year-old daughter Juno along. As if the episodes themselves weren't enough, the supplementary "Snack Review With Juno"[[note]]The filming for each main episode ended with Josh and Ollie treating Juno to one of the snacks she picked out from a convenience store in an earlier episode[[/note]] mini-series has its own voiced intro... ''by Juno''.
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* CutenessOverload: After multiple series showing adults around Korea, one from 2020 has Ollie and his wife bringing their then two-year-old daughter Juno along. As if the episodes themselves weren't enough, the supplementary "Snack Review With Juno"[[note]]The filming for each main episode ended with Josh and Ollie treating Juno to one of the snacks she picked out from a convenience store in an earlier episode[[/note]] has its own voiced intro... ''by Juno''.

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* CutenessOverload: After multiple series showing adults around Korea, one from 2020 has Ollie and his wife bringing their then two-year-old daughter Juno along. As if the episodes themselves weren't enough, the supplementary "Snack Review With Juno"[[note]]The filming for each main episode ended with Josh and Ollie treating Juno to one of the snacks she picked out from a convenience store in an earlier episode[[/note]] mini-series has its own voiced intro... ''by Juno''.
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* BlatantLies: Ollie's introduction to Episode 257 of JOLLY[[note]]''I Spent Six Months Preparing A Carrot Holiday'', from May 11th, 2020[[/note]] is packed full of them. Despite his proclamations of the episode he's celebrating being ''their best ever'', it was their 24th ''worst'' in terms of overall view count; a fact which they mock through the use of fake accolades in a cinematic intro for ''Carrot Land: A Celebration''.


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* CutenessOverload: After multiple series showing adults around Korea, one from 2020 has Ollie and his wife bringing their then two-year-old daughter Juno along. As if the episodes themselves weren't enough, the supplementary "Snack Review With Juno"[[note]]The filming for each main episode ended with Josh and Ollie treating Juno to one of the snacks she picked out from a convenience store in an earlier episode[[/note]] has its own voiced intro... ''by Juno''.
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* HeterosexualLifePartners: Josh and Ollie are this, having met in university, complete with constant jokes about Ollie being Josh's second wife (after Gabie).

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* HeterosexualLifePartners: Josh and Ollie are this, having met in university, complete with constant jokes about Ollie being Josh's second wife (after Gabie)."first wife"[[note]]As their friendship started long before Josh meeting and eventually marrying Gabie[[/note]]

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* HeterosexualLifePartners: Josh and Ollie are this, complete with constant jokes about Ollie being Josh's second wife (after Gabie).


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* HeterosexualLifePartners: Josh and Ollie are this, having met in university, complete with constant jokes about Ollie being Josh's second wife (after Gabie).
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* HeterosexualLifePartners: Josh and Ollie are this, complete with constant jokes about Ollie being Josh's second wife (after Gabie).
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* CatchPhrase: ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fue88OcJZJw "You're an idiot."]]''

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-->'''Hyunwoo:''' I've been watching these video lessons closely...\\
'''Ollie:''' All of them? I've criticised the book quite a lot.\\
'''Hyunwoo:''' I know!
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* BlackHoleBelly: If anyone has one of these, it's Dan. During his time on KoreanEnglishman[[note]]Before he started his own similar channel with Joel[[/note]], he was often drafted in to take part in eating challenges. One highlight of these is when he had a ''twenty-six'' inch pizza. To himself.
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Josh Carrott, known as the '''[[https://www.youtube.com/user/koreanenglishman/ Korean Englishman]]''' is a [=Youtuber=] whose channel's primary focus is on exposing Westerners to Korean culture through the wide array of food on offer to travellers venturing there. Having spent time at a Korean university as an exchange student, his videos are often bilingual; switching between Korean and English. For those unversed in either of the languages, the videos are helpfully subtitled in both.

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Josh Carrott, known as the '''[[https://www.youtube.com/user/koreanenglishman/ Korean Englishman]]''' is a [=Youtuber=] whose channel's primary focus is on exposing Westerners to Korean culture through through, among many other things, the wide array of food on offer to travellers venturing there. Having spent time at a Korean university as an exchange student, university, his videos are often bilingual; switching between Korean and English. For those unversed in either of the languages, the videos are helpfully subtitled in both.

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* BlackComedy: The Christmas 2018 episode of ''JOLLY'' culminates in Ollie getting Josh a ''cremation urn''. Not only that, he had it pre-engraved. With Josh's full name, his date of birth (complete with a blank space for his eventual date of ''death'')... and ''오늘은여기까지''[[note]]"Oneul-eun yeogikkaji" / "That's all for today!"; their traditional sign-off[[/note]] engraved as the epitaph.
* BlackHoleBelly: If anyone has one of these, it's Dan. During his time on KoreanEnglishman[[note]]Before he started his own similar channel with Joel[[/note]], he was often drafted in to take part in eating challenges. One highlight of these is when he had a ''twenty-six'' inch pizza. To himself.



* CoordinatedClothes: Averted with identical twin brothers Rev. Chris and Charles. As far as the videos are concerned, they are never seen in clothing even ''close'' to identical, with one being an Anglican priest and the other being a Major in the British Army.



* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: While Ollie's father ''does'' have a name, both the fans and the video titles simply refer to him as ''Ollie's Dad'', even going as far as having fans' gift packages addressed to him as such.

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* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: While Ollie's father ''does'' have a name, name[[note]]Henry[[/note]], both the fans and the video titles simply refer to him as ''Ollie's Dad'', even going as far as having fans' gift packages addressed to him as such.




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* TheManBehindTheMan: In terms of Ollie's Korean lessons. A 2019 episode of ''JOLLY'' finally had him face-to-face with Hyunwoo Sun, one of the six authors of the ''Talk To Me In Korean'' series of textbooks Josh had been using. It went about as well as could be expected.
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* InSeriesNickname: Johnny, much to Josh's amusement, dubbed himself ''Michin Namja''[[note]]Korean for "Crazy Man"[[/note]] at the start of a cooking video, leading to them to jokingly suggest that they do a ''Michin Namja'' video series. When Johnny later came on his second trip out to Korea, they did precisely that.

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* InSeriesNickname: Johnny, much to Josh's amusement, dubbed himself ''Michin Namja''[[note]]Korean for "Crazy Man"[[/note]] at the start of a cooking video, leading to them to jokingly suggest that they do a ''Michin Namja'' video series. When Johnny later came on his second trip out to Korea, they did precisely that.
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->''"Annyeong-haseyo. Jeilleum-eun Joshigoyo... jeon yeong-gugnamjayeyo."''[[note]]"안녕하세요. 제이름은 조쉬고요... 전영국남자예요!", subtitled as "Hello. My name's Josh... and I'm the Korean Englishman."[[/note]]
-->-- '''Josh's''' ''traditional video introduction.''

Josh Carrott, known as the '''[[https://www.youtube.com/user/koreanenglishman/ Korean Englishman]]''' is a [=Youtuber=] whose channel's primary focus is on exposing Westerners to Korean culture through the wide array of food on offer to travellers venturing there. Having spent time at a Korean university as an exchange student, his videos are often bilingual; switching between Korean and English. For those unversed in either of the languages, the videos are helpfully subtitled in both.
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!!Tropes found in the Korean Englishman's videos:

* BigEater: On more than one occasion, Dan[[note]]now helming his own similar channel with fellow former KE co-star Joel[[/note]] has proven that he's one of these, such as eating an entire ''twenty-six inch'' pizza on his own in London.
* BilingualBonus: Not so much a hidden message but, while the channel (and Josh himself) are referred to as ''Korean Englishman'' in English, the hangul which forms the channel logo is simply "Englishman"... ''in'' Korean.
* BottleEpisode: The ''JOLLY'' sub-channel is more like a Bottle Series, in which Josh and Ollie film episodes something approaching a studio format; the two of them sat in an indoor location in front of a camera.
* Corpsing: There are multiple examples, whether its the names of some British foods or otherwise.
** What was funnier? Learning that not even ''Korean Englishman'' were immune to the amusingly-named ''Super Dickmanns''... or the fact that Rev. Chris was the first to react?
** Josh giving Ollie Korean lessons. Sometimes... he's just gotta laugh.
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: The bilingual subtitles which form a fixture of newer videos weren't actually present in the early (late 2013) videos. Additionally, Josh spoke a lot less English on-screen, only doing so when directly addressing his co-stars, many of whom either didn't speak Korean at all or only knew very little.
* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: While Ollie's father ''does'' have a name, both the fans and the video titles simply refer to him as ''Ollie's Dad'', even going as far as having fans' gift packages addressed to him as such.
* FoodPorn: With Korean food forming much of the content of the videos in general, there's bound to be ''some'' degree of food porn at work.
* FoodSongsAreFunny: Inspired by his time in Korea, Andy created one about Korean fried chicken[[note]]often called ''chimaek''; a portmanteau of "chicken" and "maek-ju", the Korean word for beer[[/note]], complete with drafting in over half a dozen musicians and most of the ''Korean Englishman'' cast to serve as backing vocalists.
* InSeriesNickname: Johnny, much to Josh's amusement, dubbed himself ''Michin Namja''[[note]]Korean for "Crazy Man"[[/note]] at the start of a cooking video, leading to them to jokingly suggest that they do a ''Michin Namja'' video series. When Johnny later came on his second trip out to Korea, they did precisely that.
* PortmanteauCoupleName: While not a romantic example, Josh and Ollie realised that theirs would make an ideal name for a video series; one which grew to be housed on its own channel.
** Whenever certain guests appear on ''JOLLY'', their inclusion prompts alterations to the usual intro or, in some cases, a replacement of the title card. These include ''JOLLIBEE''[[note]]Josh, Ollie and Josh's wife Gabie[[/note]] and ''SHANDY''.[[note]]used when Sho and Andy appeared and hijacked the intro[[/note]]
* TheBard: Johnny, with his acoustic guitar. Though Andy's prowess in a music studio ranks him a close second.

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->''"Oneul-eun... yeogi-kkaji."''[[note]]"That's all for today!"[[/note]]
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