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billybrobby · Joined: 09 Dec 2004

You ever had Koreans explain weird behavior with something that seems like a total bulls**t excuse? Lay it on me.

Once this chick told me that the reason Ajummas are so pushy is because they are monomaniacally thinking about their family's welfare and all the things they need to do to help their family so they have to be pushy. I thought it was the most transparent self-serving BS I'd heard in a while. How does an ajumma taking a full sprint and pinballing off 4 people to score the precious corner seat in the subway help her family?

Corporal · Joined: 25 Jan 2003

Um..kinda obvious, but: Koreans sending their kids to fifty hagwons = caring so much about their education?

Qinella · Joined: 25 Feb 2005 Location: the crib

My boss told me Korean kids are really fast at typing text messages on their cell phones because they are naturally dextrous due to years of using chopsticks, and the girls are especially fast because of making kimchi. That's awesome.

kat2 · Joined: 25 Oct 2005 Location: Busan, South Korea

Its not exactly a cultural excuse, but I like the "eat this thing that tastes like shit, because its healthy. Yes, it tastes, bad, but very, very healthy." Um, no thanks. I know just a few decades ago, any nutrition and food was valuable, so they probably made up that excuse to get their kids to eat the little food they had. However, now, I don't need to eat skank to stay alive, and I won't do it. Sorry, but I am only bothering to eat tasty things.

rawiri · Joined: 01 Jun 2003 Location: Lovely day for a fire drill.

Qinella, thats the same reasoning a korean "sports reporter" used in his argument why there are so many koreans on the LPGA tour. Thats just friggen unbelievable really.

billybrobby · Joined: 09 Dec 2004

And we all know chopstick use was given as a reason why Dr. Hwang's lab team was so good at cloning. Of course, it turns out they were relying on another traditional skill: lying.

JMO · Joined: 18 Jul 2006 Location: Daegu

gang ah jee · Joined: 14 Jan 2003 Location: city of paper

The head teacher at my first job in Korea told me that the reason I couldn't find shoelaces in my town was because Korean shoelaces are so well made that they never break. No need to sell replacements.

Not quite a cultural excuse, but it did make my eyes pop out of my head.

Chicoloco · Joined: 18 Oct 2006 Location: In the ring.

Apparently the reason Korean beef is so darn expensive is that, as every sane person knows, it is the best beef in the world. Silly old me thought it was because they don't have much grass and any farmland they had, Hyundai built "Green Story" apartments on.

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denistron · Joined: 21 Oct 2006 Location: Busan

The reason given to me why my co-worker got filthy drunk at a staff dinner and literally pissed on himself because he couldn't even aim anymore "Korean emotion is very strong".
Nice.

khyber · Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Location: Compunction Junction

I confronted a Korean head teacher when she lied to me about moving my desk. She had said the WJN told her to move. When she obviously didn't, I told her I thought she was lying.
She said, "It's the Korean way. Korean people lie because they want other people to change desks".

I was very confused.

freethought · Joined: 13 Mar 2005

ajgeddes · Joined: 28 Apr 2004 Location: Yongsan

JMO · Joined: 18 Jul 2006 Location: Daegu

I propose a contest. Everybody make up some korean cultural BS. Tell your class about it and attribute it a korean scientist.

The first person to have their idea repeated to someone else on this board wins.