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Bingo



Joined: 22 Jun 2006
PostPosted: Sun Dec 17, 2006 10:27 pm    Post subject: "Do you also walk into trees?" Reply with quote
I'm soooooo tired of Koreans bumping into me one. I've learned to say, "Don't bump into me." (Mil-jee-mah) Someone in another thread said that he says to the jerk bumping into him "Do you also walk into trees?" I'd like to use that, but I'm not sure of the exact sentence.

I know "walk" (gootah) tree (namoo) go (ka) hit (miladah) etc. But I such at making sentences. Can anyone help me here. Also the following, "If you bump into me again I'll tear your head off your shoulders and feed it to you for dinner."

Thanks for the help.
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Return Jones



Joined: 06 Feb 2004
Location: I will see you in far-off places
PostPosted: Sun Dec 17, 2006 11:08 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
It's time for you to head back home.

It's how people have chosen to live in this culture. Take it or leave it. I choose to live with it and don't complain for as long as I'm here.
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kat2



Joined: 25 Oct 2005
Location: Busan, South Korea
PostPosted: Sun Dec 17, 2006 11:12 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
I bump them right back. I love that there is none of this "excuse me" "Oh, I'm so sorry" crap here. If someone is in the way, you just move them.

I have to be careful at home or I'll get decked though.
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Yu_Bum_suk



Joined: 25 Dec 2004
PostPosted: Sun Dec 17, 2006 11:23 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
He he, yesterday in Daegu I had great fun bumping into people. The best was a couple who suddently stopped at the bottom of the escalator in Kyopo books, suddenly unsure of where they were going. I was bundled up in a big coat with a big backpack and just charged right between the two of them, sending each stumbling in the opposite direction, my backpack getting the woman pretty good as I turned just slightly to the side.

What I cannot, cannot stand, however, is people pushing from behind, especially when it comes to getting off a bus. I was about to turn around and yell 'hajima!!' at a guy doing it to me the other week but when I turned around I saw that he was Philappino.

Maybe it's the non-bumpers / pushers who are the minority in the world?
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Satori



Joined: 09 Dec 2005
Location: Above it all
PostPosted: Sun Dec 17, 2006 11:27 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Its pretty amazing. In Tokyo, which is easily as crowded as Seoul, in the subway it`s like rivers parting, no one touches anyone and it all seems so effortless. Very sophisticated people...
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Qinella



Joined: 25 Feb 2005
Location: the crib
PostPosted: Sun Dec 17, 2006 11:44 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
I had a weird shoving match with an ajumma in Emart last night. She was trying to pass by me, but decided to ram into me as she did so. So I put pressure onto her, trying to push her a bit, and she did the same thing, resulting in a kind of gridlock that lasted about 2 seconds.
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charlieDD



Joined: 16 Jun 2006
Location: Seoul, Korea
PostPosted: Sun Dec 17, 2006 11:53 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Satori wrote:
Its pretty amazing. In Tokyo, which is easily as crowded as Seoul, in the subway it`s like rivers parting, no one touches anyone and it all seems so effortless. Very sophisticated people...


It really is a wonder there, isn't it? You see two large crowds there in Tokyo about to merge and somehow they slide right through each other and not a bump is made.

Same "bumplessness" happens in other crowded Asian cities. In Vietnam you even see crowds of motorbikes performing the same feat.

For me, I always try to get at the root of things I notice here. I mean what the cultural or psychological factor at play is and what it means or reveals about the people. I have my thoughts, but they're still half-baked.
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Captain Corea



Joined: 28 Feb 2005
Location: Seoul
PostPosted: Sun Dec 17, 2006 11:59 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Yu_Bum_suk wrote:
He he, yesterday in Daegu I had great fun bumping into people. The best was a couple who suddently stopped at the bottom of the escalator in Kyopo books, suddenly unsure of where they were going. I was bundled up in a big coat with a big backpack and just charged right between the two of them, sending each stumbling in the opposite direction, my backpack getting the woman pretty good as I turned just slightly to the side.

What I cannot, cannot stand, however, is people pushing from behind, especially when it comes to getting off a bus. I was about to turn around and yell 'hajima!!' at a guy doing it to me the other week but when I turned around I saw that he was Philappino.

Maybe it's the non-bumpers / pushers who are the minority in the world?


I've often wondered what goes through thier minds when they stop in the middle of a traffic area.

I found the bold quite funny though.
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Sina qua non



Joined: 20 Jun 2006
PostPosted: Mon Dec 18, 2006 12:33 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
charlieDD wrote:
I mean what the cultural or psychological factor at play is and what it means or reveals about the people.


Passive aggression.
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periwinkle



Joined: 08 Feb 2003
PostPosted: Mon Dec 18, 2006 12:52 am    Post subject: Re: "Do you also walk into trees?" Reply with quote
Bingo wrote:
I'm soooooo tired of Koreans bumping into me one. I've learned to say, "Don't bump into me." (Mil-jee-mah) Someone in another thread said that he says to the jerk bumping into him "Do you also walk into trees?" I'd like to use that, but I'm not sure of the exact sentence.

I know "walk" (gootah) tree (namoo) go (ka) hit (miladah) etc. But I such at making sentences. Can anyone help me here. Also the following, "If you bump into me again I'll tear your head off your shoulders and feed it to you for dinner."

Thanks for the help.


Actually, I think even if you say something, it won't change their behavior. You can't really do anything about it, cuz it happens all the time. Once I was wearing open toed shoes, and a girl stepped on my toe with her pointy heel (she lost her balance on the bus). The only thing you can really say is jo-shim-eh-yo (or grab your foot and whimper pathetically, like I did^^).... Unless you're trying for a joke, but my Korean's not good enough to help you there...
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skinhead



Joined: 11 Jun 2004
PostPosted: Mon Dec 18, 2006 5:40 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
The funny thing about the OP is that they do actually bump into trees. Nobody else here seen that? You haven't been here long enough. There've been a lot of priceless examples of mudleheadedness but watching a korean college girl walk smack nose first into a tree while on her mobile phone and then collapse into a squat sqawking abuse at her boyfriend over the phone for distracting her was unforgettable. I laughed so much I actually melted.