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[poet13]

"Ash trays.

Nothing is worse than going to shake one out and having a rogue butt bungee jump it's way back up to slap you on the wrist."

Awww dude, that's nasty! I have a picture in my head now that won't go away.

[silvertoes]

I saw a high school girl do it on the clean shiny floor of a Carrefour supermarket (grocery department). I was stunned; she shot me a killing glare when she saw the shocked look on my face.

Seriously, don't generalise about delicate little Korean ladies until you've seen a few ladies' washrooms here. Ugh.

[happeningthang]

I had a high school girl let a ball of spit fall to the floor of our classroom, while she was sitting directly opposite me.

"Hyun Jun (I can't remember her name), did you just spit on the floor"?

She was immediately embarrased and ashamed, and cleaned it up without argument, even though arguing was something she loved to do. What I thought was so weird was that it was one of those very deliberate and considered slow spits the Adjoshis do when they're trying to extinguish a cigarette in the ashtray. Why would she go to the effort, while obviously knowing it was the wrong thing to do?

PS

"Hawking Loogies" is not an Australian phrase. As far as I know Australians don't even have a term for it other than coughing up phlegm. I always thought it was an American term.

[freshking]

My friend was in Fukuoka near the ferry terminal and saw a group of ajosshis tossing butts and hocking loogies on the ground. He went up to them and said "you guys must be Korean." When they confirmed his suspicion, he went on to say, "Because only Koreans toss cigarette butts on the ground ten feet from an ashtray." When they started to protest, he ended with "...and Dokdo is Japan's!"

Not quite on topic, but I thought I'd share.

[Cheonmunka]

Haha, revenge.

[JeJuJitsu]

Within a week of my brand new HS school's opening last year, the boys were spitting loogies anywhere and everywhere on the shiney, new faux-marble floors. They seem to save their biggest ones for the stairs. Gross. And on those kinds of floors, the loogies don't stay in a little area like on concrete. They just smear.

Another reason I don't wear slippers in the school

[bluelake]

Not exactly the same, but once while flying to Korea on NWA, a non-Korean fellow, seated in a seat across the aisle, diagonal from mine, was chewing tobacco and ptooing into a paper cup.

[DanielP]

This one was downright nasty.

As I was waiting for the subway to arrive at crowded station,I spotted this gorgeous Korean woman. Although she was drop-dead gorgeous I thanked myself for my anxiety in chatting her up because before I could do so, she horked up only to sounds like a friggin cat with a hairball, and spat it on the subway tracks...

Needless to say, her attractiveness on my rector scale broke a new downward record


DannyP

[jvalmer]

I don't really see a problem spitting outside, or even on subway tracks. I don't know where you've seen people spit inside, because I haven't seen anyone spit onto a floor inside a building. And I've been here 2.5 years. I guess I'll have to pay attention to the people around me more.

[kermo]

[The Soju Hoju]

I think there should be two Korean guards stationed at Incheon airport.....and as you pass through customs they should both cough up a couple of grollers and mutter ' Welcome to dynArkkkkmic Korea '

[blynch]

[Alyallen]

[The Soju Hoju]

Shut it Blynch you licker of dogs a rses

[seattlespew]

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