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Ilsanman
Joined: 15 Aug 2003
Location: Bucheon, Korea
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 Posted: Thu Mar 08, 2007 8:20 am Post subject: Korea's next generation |
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When Korea's current young generation becomes fully adults, Korea will be in for a shock and a lot of changes.
Here are the changes I predict in Korean adults in the future:
1. Fashion will change and formal wear will be less common (but still common). Western and/or Japanese styles will be more common.
2. Ajumma short ugly perms will be less common.
3. Ajosshis will be a lot taller.
4. The gruff grunting ajosshi will all but disappear, and much more often, they will be nancy-boys.
5. Foreigner/Korean marriages of white man and Korean woman will be very common, much more common than in the past.
6. Of course, there will be a lot more people with English speaking ability and overseas experience. I expect xenophobia to mostly disappear.
7. There will be a lot more overweight people.
8. A lot of people are going to have skin problems (pollution)
Any more predictions? |
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DaeguKid
Joined: 09 Dec 2006
Location: Daegu
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| Posted: Thu Mar 08, 2007 8:28 am Post subject: Re: Korea's next generation |
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| Ilsanman wrote: |
6. Of course, there will be a lot more people with English speaking ability and overseas experience. I expect xenophobia to mostly disappear. |
I agree with most of your statements (especially the over weight issue) but this one, number 6, can't see it completely disappearing. Koreans are brainwashed in my opinion. And as long as the news keeps pumping out the crap that Korea is number one, this ego and xenophobia will not be changing anytime soon, or later. The ignorance just runs too deep here.
I have seen it on all levels. When people who I thought were actually cool (Korean dudes) and very open minded, would slip up.
I was teaching this one really cool cat, about 25 years old, lived in Toronto for 6 months, had gay friends, went to a peeler joint, hung out with Japanese peeps...the whole nine yards. When I asked him what he thought when he saw a Korean girl with a Western guy, he said it makes him very angry inside and he has to hold his rage back....this, after spending half a year in one of the most multi-cultural cities in the world.
His Englishy might have improved, but his brain stayed the same as far as I am concerned.
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Qinella
Joined: 25 Feb 2005
Location: the crib
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| Posted: Thu Mar 08, 2007 8:36 am Post subject: |
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yeah dude but you can't judge the entire civilization on one guy. We all know the value of anecdotes..
I think the list is pretty good. You can already see obese people, and a lot of high school lads are taller than me (6'2"). I can't say I agree with the formal wear part, as youth fashion is something that tends to stay among the youth. I certainly don't dress now the way I did when I was 15. Formal wear will always carry a cachet. Also, with the pollution.. not sure I know what you are talking about. Seoul has taken measures to clean up pollution in recent years, as attested by the US magazine TIME, and other news outlets. It's much better than many other Asian nations.
The ajumma perm? Yeah that thing is fading.. hell yeah. The ajeoshi 'tude? Don't think so. Watch some drunk, mid-20s Korean dudes some time. Full ajeoshi action going. Plus, I was called ajeoshi yesterday.. by an ajeoshi.  So, ajeoshi is a broad term. |
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mithridates
Joined: 03 Mar 2003
Location: President's office, Korean Space Agency
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| Posted: Thu Mar 08, 2007 8:44 am Post subject: Re: Korea's next generation |
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| Ilsanman wrote: |
When Korea's current young generation becomes fully adults, Korea will be in for a shock and a lot of changes.
Here are the changes I predict in Korean adults in the future:
1. Fashion will change and formal wear will be less common (but still common). Western and/or Japanese styles will be more common.
2. Ajumma short ugly perms will be less common.
3. Ajosshis will be a lot taller.
4. The gruff grunting ajosshi will all but disappear, and much more often, they will be nancy-boys.
5. Foreigner/Korean marriages of white man and Korean woman will be very common, much more common than in the past.
6. Of course, there will be a lot more people with English speaking ability and overseas experience. I expect xenophobia to mostly disappear.
7. There will be a lot more overweight people.
8. A lot of people are going to have skin problems (pollution)
Any more predictions? |
For #5 that'll be true, but Korean man and Vietnamese/other less developed Asian nation woman will be much more common. Those marriages happen usually in the countryside but I expect a lot of their children will come to the city to study so we'll see a lot of them in about a decade. |
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JongnoGuru
Joined: 25 May 2004
Location: peeing on your doorstep
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| Posted: Thu Mar 08, 2007 10:02 am Post subject: Re: Korea's next generation |
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| mithridates wrote: |
| For #5 that'll be true, but Korean man and Vietnamese/other less developed Asian nation woman will be much more common. Those marriages happen usually in the countryside but I expect a lot of their children will come to the city to study so we'll see a lot of them in about a decade. |
Exactly what I was going to say. More international marriages, definitely we can expect that. But it's not the White Man/Korean Woman marriages that are going to see any noticeable growth spurt, but rather Korean Man/Foreign (mostly Asian, but also some Western) Woman marriages. In fact, we're already seeing it, it's not a prediction but a fact.
White Man/Korean Woman marriages may increase, but they'll never catch up with the other. And, they're less likely to stick around than the other. International marriages involving Korean husbands stay put, they don't emigrate. Much. |
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JongnoGuru
Joined: 25 May 2004
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| Posted: Thu Mar 08, 2007 10:15 am Post subject: Re: Korea's next generation |
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| Ilsanman wrote: |
| 6. Of course, there will be a lot more people with English speaking ability and overseas experience. I expect xenophobia to mostly disappear. |
I wouldn't hold your breath on xenophobia disappearing (you can still be a racist in an enlightened, multicultural society and Korea will be nowhere close to that in just one generation) but I'm with you on the increase in English fluency. So here's my prediction.
9. The bloom will largely be off the ESL rose, and with this one small but significant step, Korea will begin the long journey back to being the more-or-less "normal foreign country" it was when I arrived.
*Gasp!* But whatever shall become of us (Koreans & old-timer expats) without the ESL teachers to kick around anymore???
Oh, I 'spect we'll muddle through somehow. We'll just find some other defenceless scapegoat to blame all of Korea's ills on.  |
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Novernae
Joined: 02 Mar 2005
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| Posted: Thu Mar 08, 2007 6:54 pm Post subject: |
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| Qinella wrote: |
| Also, with the pollution.. not sure I know what you are talking about. Seoul has taken measures to clean up pollution in recent years, as attested by the US magazine TIME, and other news outlets. It's much better than many other Asian nations. |
Better than horrible does not mean good. |
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billybrobby
Joined: 09 Dec 2004
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Yeah, some of this seems to be just assuming that the youth will act like youths for the rest of their lives. Like back in the 60s you would've thought that society would have completely changed when the baby boomers took power. And in a lot of ways it did, but not to the point where grass is legal and people are dancing naked in the streets. The baby boomers got old and what resulted was that hideous decade we call the 80s.
The thing that I'm mainly curious about is whether all the cutesy "Oppa~!" whining girls will turn into hardened little ajummas. In America, people have continually tried to extend the youthful portion of their life and I suppose that will happen here too. But here the division between the stages in life is so stark and heartless so who knows. |
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zappadelta
Joined: 31 Aug 2004
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| Posted: Thu Mar 08, 2007 8:32 pm Post subject: |
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| 9. Less bowing? |
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PimpofKorea
Joined: 09 Dec 2006
Location: Dealing in high quality imported English
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| Posted: Thu Mar 08, 2007 10:02 pm Post subject: |
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| I could give a rat's peepee hole how Korea will be in the future.....does this stuff even matter remotely to the average white dude hanging and singing his ABC's with kids? Let the Koreans worry about that garbage.. |
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Ilsanman
Joined: 15 Aug 2003
Location: Bucheon, Korea
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| Posted: Fri Mar 09, 2007 1:07 am Post subject: |
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Then feel free to refrain from posting.
I forgot a few things:
-The cancer rates will absolutely explode, especially lung and liver cancer (or other liver problems). The smoking laws will become stricter and smoking rates will drop, but not nearly as much as the west has done. I can't ever see Korea banning smoking in all buildings.
-I think xenophobia is on its way out. A lot of young kids have exposure to foreigners from a young age. Also about brainwashing, it may occur, but a lot of people are waking up and smelling the sewage, and realizing that this place kinda sucks. It will disappear, but not quickly. |
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