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[Cheonmunka]

One time, I had learned the new word, 개세끼, so I used it by whispering to a man in his ear while waiting in line at the bus stop.
He kept pushing back and shuffling around so I whispered it into his ear from behind him. Then, realising what I had said, quickly stood back a little and straightened up and looked away.
So, he turns around and looks around. My eye glances with him as though I have just seen him. Well, he sees me, but casts that thought aside... he sees a guy (of course Korean) near me. He steps a little forward and shouts at him, "Yah, musen kaesaekki yah!
The other guy's like, "Eh? mmm what's up with this guy ... Hey .. settle down."
"Yah, 넌 개쎄끼야!"
Anyway, the bus came and this man kept on shouting at this guy. The ma-ul bus was full of people. But, I got a seat cause while they were arguing people were slow and looking around them at the commotion, so taking my wife by the arm I slipped in front of them and onto the bus. When the guy got on and was going at it, shouting continually at this guy saying stuff like, "Why do call me that!" and "You are that!" my wife was wondering what he was on about and says, "Man, sorry, Honey. Korea sucks"
I whispered, "No, It's because of me."
I was interested in events. I told her later about how I was the cause of it all. So, she just wondered intently why I was the cause of all this. When she found out she wasn't amused.
Anyway, the second guy got off the bus, and said to the first man, "See you next time," I think he may have known something was afoot. I think he even looked at me near the end, and I gave him a slight cheer of the head.

A bit naughty, eh.

[VanIslander]

[Vancouver]

i think its S.O.B.

[Ginormousaurus]

Yeah, literally it means like "dog baby". But the conotations it carries are much worse. It's definitly one of the worst things you can say to a person.

[Young FRANKenstein]

[HapKi]

You deserved a lot worse.
You should of got beat, or at least the guy should have got in you and your wife's face. Probably should have b1tched out your wife, as he had already passed you off as an idiot foreigner.

[SPINOZA]

If you really, really wanna piss a Korean off, it's better to sound off in English.

I lost it with a guy yesterday and drowned him in a sea of English obsenities. The combination of being obviously angry and saying something unpleasant with lack of understanding infuriates a person.

[lastat06513]

The first things I learned were almost every bad word/ combination of words ever uttered in Korean.

One unfortunate person became the target of my agressive barage once, not only was he surprised by my words (which by one person was described as "having the mouth of a aged prostitute or ganster's mother in Cholla"). Believe it or not, he started crying because he lost "face" in front of so many boy.

So, if you want to get people off your back and scare the living sh^t out of them, learn each and every bad word imaginable in the Korean language, you are bound to turn heads.

[thebum]

[HapKi]

[mack4289]

[quote="Cheonmunka"]One time, I had learned the new word, 개세끼, so I used it by whispering to a man in his ear while waiting in line at the bus stop.
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That's really funny, but you weren't surprised that he got so mad, were you? I'm imagining a Korean guy who just learned c**ks**ker or some other really offensive word whispering it into the ear of an English speaker. Great story.

[Col.Brandon]

I accidentally clocked some old guy on the head with my bag on the bus once. He was seated and my bag was on my shoulder, and it whacked him on the head as I wet to sit down. I didn't realise it until after I sat down and he started berating some poor young Korean guy who happened to be standing next to him. To my shame I didn't own up and apologise to the old chap. The young guy ended up bowing and apologising to the old man.

Ah well, he was probably guilty of something.

[RACETRAITOR]

Just because we're comfortable using English swears doesn't mean Koreans are comfortable with their own swears. Korean swears are still taboo. If you use something like "개쎄끼" you'd better be prepared to back it up.

Even Koreans who have no trouble with any of our swears will turn red when they hear their own swears. Once me and my wife were joking around and calling each other insults. I called her "byung-shin" (no Hangul on this keyboard) and she nearly dumped me.

We were making out once at my place on one of our first dates, and I had the computer on playing songs. A song by the Korean punk band Run Carrot came on, named "Sshi-bal nom-a" and she started laughing uncontrollably. She put on something less offensive to her--which turned out to be Skrewdriver--and we went back to making out.

[Gwangjuboy]

[Gwangjuboy]