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Standing up to Korean foolishness
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khyber



Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: Compunction Junction

PostPosted: Mon Apr 30, 2007 9:55 pm    Post subject: Standing up to Korean foolishness Reply with quote

I want to hear all the stories. For better or worse!

I don't have any good ones; let me live through you!
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caniff



Joined: 03 Feb 2004
Location: All over the map

PostPosted: Mon Apr 30, 2007 10:03 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

After walking into a convenience store with my wife, this adjoshi purposely put his shoulder into her while walking by. He was wearing sunglasses at night. Rolling Eyes

I took off his sunglasses, threw them against the wall, and gave him a bitch-slap backhand across the face.

He couldn't even speak. The look on his face was priceless.

caveat: I generally like Korean people. Assclowns exist everywhere.
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Jarome_Turner



Joined: 10 Sep 2004

PostPosted: Mon Apr 30, 2007 11:04 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

caniff wrote:
After walking into a convenience store with my wife, this adjoshi purposely put his shoulder into her while walking by. He was wearing sunglasses at night. Rolling Eyes

I took off his sunglasses, threw them against the wall, and gave him a *beep*-slap backhand across the face.

He couldn't even speak. The look on his face was priceless.

caveat: I generally like Korean people. Assclowns exist everywhere.


His reaction??
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Bibbitybop



Joined: 22 Feb 2006
Location: Seoul

PostPosted: Mon Apr 30, 2007 11:11 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

No wild stories here, but a few examples come to mind:

1. Korean cuts in front of you or pushes money to a vendor in front of you: Push back and push him/his money out of the way.

2. Korean won't move out of your way (and see you) and there's nowhere for you to go (like coming down stairs on the left with a huge crowd coming up): Shoulder check and barrel through them.

3. Koreans not waiting until you get off the train or out of the elevator before getting on: Shoulder check, baby.

4. Korean eyeballing you for dancing, talking to or interacting with a Korean girl: Ask him how he's doing and tell him you are having a great night. Kill 'em with kindness, it confuses the piss out of them.

5. Korean pissing on the street when a bathroom is nearby: Shove him from behind and watch him piss himself. You may want to run if you want to avoid a fight, you'll have a minute or so until he stops pissing and zips up.
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shifdog



Joined: 20 Jul 2006

PostPosted: Mon Apr 30, 2007 11:28 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

In a bar, a Korean and his woman sat in the booth occupied by my friends and I without saying anything. I sat down next to his woman and put my arm over her shoulder. They quickly left.

I was paying for my food in a restaurant, and a drunk ajoshi tried to push past me as he was heading for the exit. I pushed him, and he crashed into a cabinet.
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Young FRANKenstein



Joined: 02 Oct 2006
Location: Castle Frankenstein (that's FRONKensteen)

PostPosted: Tue May 01, 2007 12:14 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Jarome_Turner wrote:
His reaction??

Hockey punch.

Bibbitybop wrote:
Korean pissing on the street when a bathroom is nearby: Shove him from behind and watch him piss himself. You may want to run if you want to avoid a fight, you'll have a minute or so until he stops pissing and zips up.

Laughing Laughing
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Qinella



Joined: 25 Feb 2005
Location: the crib

PostPosted: Tue May 01, 2007 12:35 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Wtf is a hockey punch??

Anywayzzz, I've faced Korean Woman Foolishness here and there and yonder. "Oh, no, I'd never trim it down. It'd look like a p0rn st/\R!" Incoming buzz clippers. Jump to habitual shaving habit. Jump to diminishing landing strips.
Give me satiation.
Flash.
Give me glazed face.
Flash.
Jump to the next book you will read.
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Yu_Bum_suk



Joined: 25 Dec 2004

PostPosted: Tue May 01, 2007 12:41 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I find that holding a lit cigarette by my side as I'm walking along greatly diminishes the chances that I'll get bumped on that side.

If you're travelling, a big backpack can also help with people who invade your personal space in places like queues. Suddenly swing 90 degrees and Wham! nail him. It works especially well with people who only come up to your shoulders or kids who instinctively push the people in front of them. With the latter suddenly dropping a backpack from your shoulders can also work very well.
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simpleminds



Joined: 04 May 2006

PostPosted: Tue May 01, 2007 1:13 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Once a pregnant friend (nine months) and I were getting off the train when a drunk ajosshi slammed into us. I swung round and rammed my elbow into his back.

He stood there, wondering what had hit him so hard. And no, he didn't get a seat.

Another drunk ajosshi ogled my boobies and ran into me in an attempt to grope. I pushed him so hard he almost fell off the platform. He had a 'what did I do wrong?' look on his face.

I see a little emperor peeing at the approval of his parents and I say 'eew, pong' when I pass by. Then they get embarrased. Well, duh, the dunnycan is 20 meters away.

Once another friend an I were on a train; I was sitting, she was standing. Some dude with a humangous teddy-bear kept shoving it into her face and chest. There was plenty of room for him to stand and put that huge teddy bear. I swapped seats, swung my backpack into his face as I did so and whenever the train braked, I stepped onto his feet and said "oops." He moved away and put the pink teddy onto the overhead rail.
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VirginIslander



Joined: 24 May 2006
Location: Busan

PostPosted: Tue May 01, 2007 1:27 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

According to my contract, I get three sick days a year. But, as my head teacher has informed me on numerous occasions, sick days dont really exist in Korea (contracts dont either; they are just loose agreements). When I arrived here ten months ago, the other foriegners said "Korean dont take sick days" and "neither do teacher."

Well, I am not there now. I'm at home with my leg (its in a pseudo caste) on a pillow, a beer on my stomach and nothing on my mind.

PS I would like to thank Mrs Marks, the first grade teacher with twenty years experience at my last school in islands, who told me "sugar, those are your sick days, if you dont use em, they wont be used."
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Scouse Mouse



Joined: 07 Jan 2007
Location: Cloud #9

PostPosted: Tue May 01, 2007 2:42 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

On the subway, just before the doors open I have taken to lowering my head and squaring my shoulders... I feel like moses!

The only time I have really snapped was in Myeong-Dong last weekend. I was in some packed shop or other and about to board the escalator going down when some moron stopped in front of me to point out something to his friends. With half of seoul trying to follow me onto the escalator I had to do something. I gently persuaded him to board the escalator with a well placed palm...
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kurva anjad



Joined: 19 Apr 2007

PostPosted: Tue May 01, 2007 3:10 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Bibbitybop wrote:


5. Korean pissing on the street when a bathroom is nearby: Shove him from behind and watch him piss himself. You may want to run if you want to avoid a fight, you'll have a minute or so until he stops pissing and zips up.


In Central Park in Bundang, a mother was patiently teaching her three-year old boy to pee right on the edge of the busy walk path. Yes. The WC was perhaps 15 meters up the path by the swingset.
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Captain Corea



Joined: 28 Feb 2005
Location: Seoul

PostPosted: Tue May 01, 2007 3:21 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Scouse Mouse wrote:
On the subway, just before the doors open I have taken to lowering my head and squaring my shoulders... I feel like moses!


I stand right in front of the door and sometimes tap on the glass (if they are standing in the way and there's time). I tap and point in the direction I'm going. If they are still in my way, it's fair game.
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Young FRANKenstein



Joined: 02 Oct 2006
Location: Castle Frankenstein (that's FRONKensteen)

PostPosted: Tue May 01, 2007 3:49 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Captain Corea wrote:
I tap and point in the direction I'm going. If they are still in my way, it's fair game.

I like that. The idea of fair warning is a ticket to guilt-free tackle dummy practice.
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Young FRANKenstein



Joined: 02 Oct 2006
Location: Castle Frankenstein (that's FRONKensteen)

PostPosted: Tue May 01, 2007 3:50 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Qinella wrote:
Wtf is a hockey punch??

Pull the shirt over loser's head, bending him over at the waist, then lay in a nice uppercut.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88XDRGLfzZM
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