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[Beej]

5000 years and they still cant flush down toilet paper.

[awalk2remember]

Dang!!!!

Some of your postings made me almost peepee myself !!!
Thanks for the awesome humour !!!!

It sounds to me like MESL is in the honeymoon period to the extreme !!!
When I first got to S. Korea, I felt so high immersing myself in a new culture....S. Korea was the first place I traveled to internationally...

So you may have seen a blonde woman skipping down the street in utter bliss because I was high on the whole "I'm new to Korea"

And, "Wow...the old ladies are actually drying red peppers out in the parking lot !!!"
Don't forget, "Beer is so cheap !!!"
Finally, "Actually, the bus rides are like an adventure !!!"

Now, my second year here, I am a lot less impressed with everything, but still I don't think its that bad either...

I really think MESA's consolidated speech on : "S. Korea: the wonderful-the great-and my new home!" will slowly change as the year goes on...

Keep riding the high for as long as you can !!!

[MESL]

This essay was written after working in, living in, or traveling to 15 countries in Asia and the Middle East. There are plenty of things I like about the cultures of these other countries and there are plenty of things I don't like about Korean culture, but Korea is overwhelmingly my favorite country after my own. Yes, I submitted this to the Korea Herald and the Korea Times, as well as a few American media outlets, after a Korean was named new head of the UN. But none of them responded or notified me and I was not aware that any of them printed it.

[4 months left]

[Adventurer]

[SPINOZA]

I'm with you, MESL.

I've travelled pretty extensively (although never actually lived in those countries admittedly) and I can say with some authority that Korea, even the uglier parts of Seoul, is by some considerable distance superior to the absolute dumps within a 5 mile radius of where the average pepsi-guzzling ESL monkey comes from.

[tiger fancini]

[captain kirk]

I'd wager most everyone goes along with the spirit of what the OP has written. It's just that it becomes a habit, whining, and everyone is doing it, so it's fashionable and cool, like 'I'm so jaded, blablabla, my blase ennui is smokey like venerable old whiskey and classy jazz, blarblarblar'. People biyatch about stuff back home all the time. What's missing is a clear perspective, respect, gratitude. That seems too simplistic for discriminating whiners.

Why doesn't Dave's have a 'public flogging for chronic whiners' section between Off Topic and General Discussion? Because flogging is too good for them, that's why!!!!!!

[Qinella]

[JongnoGuru]

Please be advised that dodging the swear-filtre, which is a violation of the TOS, will not enable you to escape any punishment.

-- The Management

[tomato]

Every once in a while, someone posts a message saying something, "Help! I've been stranded for six months way out here in 포덩크 and it's so boring! There's nothing to do! I'm the only foreigner here!"

I have to fight back the temptation to say, "What? You've been here only six months, and already learned to speak fluent Korean? And you have applied for a library card and already read all the books in the library? And you have signed up at one of the local music studios and already learned to play all the instruments perfectly? And you have signed up at one of the local self-defense academies and already earned a black belt?"

I recently started to read a book on art education.
The book made me think about this forum.
The book starts out:

[jaganath69]

[Yu_Bum_suk]

MESL, this is satire, right?

[Mashimaro]