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[shawner88]

I posted this question in a poll on my blog, but I think it makes a good topic for this board, despite the fact it's probably been asked several times before.


What makes you the angriest in Korea?

My answers in no particular order:

1. contstruction that begins at sunup

2. the vegetable man's megaphone spiel

3. cars that pull up into the crosswalk

4. drunk korean guys in gangs trying to talk to me but seems more like they're laughing at me

5. when the chinese restaurant is closed

6. hooligan foreigners with beautiful girls of the korean night

7. Itaewon

8. peopl cutting ahead of me in line

9. having to show respect to old, rude, drunk ajushis

10. seeing cruelty to animals

[posco's trumpet]

[shawner88]

11. Pointless replies to topics on this board

[Saxiif]

12. my supermarket being out of galbi
13. my supermarket not having jjajang
14. my boss deciding to start randomly sitting in on my classes...

[kiwioutofthenest]

15. trying to talk to my one and only co worker about a ticket i got for parking in Seoul for about 30 mins and his reply being "where do you want to go"?

16. being told to move my motorbike about half a meter as i was parked on the yellow outside my apartment only to return to find my bike surrounded by farkin chillies....ha ha i made gochu jang

17. the persistent door to door saleswomen that knock 32 times ring the bell 11 times, then enter my house when i leave the door open and shake me awake when i am sprawled out on my couch!

18. the stinky garlic kimchi smelling water that my neighbours constantly wash down the drain that is attached to my place

19. the screaming baby that is marched past my door every waking hour

[hellofaniceguy]

20. koreans in general.

[Son Deureo!]

21. My boss, who can't speak a word of English, complaining that the students' level of English isn't good enough.

22. The Gwalli Ajosshi's voice on the loudspeaker over my bed. I haven't figured out any way of disabling short of taking a crowbar to it.

23. Other foreigners who like to remind me as soon as they have met me for the first time just how ignorant Americans are. Thanks, jackass.

24. The wastebaskets full of used toilet paper in the stall of every public restroom in Korea. Never fails to make my stomach churn.

25. Those kids who can't keep their pencils on their desks! They keep dropping it! They spend more time under their desks looking for their pencils than they do sitting in their chairs!!!!

[justaskdan]

26. Koreans who think they can move my motorbike to another parking spot so that they can squeeze their Kia into a three foot wide space. Don't touch my **** bike, you don't see me pushing your car around. But alas they don't understand. Hajamara!!

[Butterfly]

[indytrucks]

28. The culture of entitlement that pervades the expat community
29. Expat collegues who moan incessantly, 24-7 about Korea and Koreans
30. Expats who become an authority on all things Korean after 3 months of living here
31. Expat doomsday prophets
32. Expats whose priority number one is to wave a glow stick and suck a lollipop at MI
33. Expats whose priority number 10, 652 is to teach classes and show up to work on time
34. Expats who lean on the crutch of cultural generalizations
35. The expat community as a whole

[itaewonguy]

Its kind of funny though.
I have been here 7 years and married to a korean. I drive everyday work the streets etc.. I know the stress factor and the STUPID S H I T that goes on here everyday. makes me crazy!!! this country is whacked YES.BUT!
over the 7 years I have met Americans and Canadians and growing up in New Zealand I never met an American or Canadian maybe in passing and if I did it was a big deal to me.. WOW American COOL.. etc...

but after coming here I met Americans and I asked them!
So when do you plan on going back to the STATES?
70% of them said. NEVER if I can help it!!
I'm like WHAT>?>???
you come from the best country in the world and you want to live outside of it???

YEAH because to the outside world it looks like the best country but inside its not!
do you Americans agree.. or Canadians Ausies even kiwis..
NOT to SAY HATE! ~ but are we sick of our countries?
The world is messed up. yes greed,power and manipulation seems to be the norm.. governments using us as Ants.. making us pay for every free resouce from the planet at high PRICES too.. governments taking all the money for their own familes, military killing people.. governments manipulating the system so the rich benefit more and the lower/middle class are the ones who suffer.. toll fees, water tax, power, ridiculous phone bills, call home for 30 minutes to talk to a love one cost 40 bucks!!! YEAH RIGHT..
I can go on for days.. we stand aside and watch people starve.. what do we do.. we make a documentary and win an Academy award.. thats how we care..
rogue leaders who dont give a shit about their people only his own well being..
yes the world is whacked.. yes Korea is whacked.. YES NEW ZEALAND has problems and disputes which havent been solved for years..
whats happening to our world.. history shows its always been this way..
but why dont we try to change it NOW??
ooopps I have gone off course..

stick to the first question

Are we sick of our countries?
most foreigners I have met have no plans on returning home..
so what gives..

[Holden]

26. Thoughts of all those bills I used to pay in the states

[Corporal]

Thinking that because you're near enough to my baby to touch her, that entitles you.

[RedRob]

[quote="shawner88"]I posted this question in a poll on my blog, but I think it makes a good topic for this board, despite the fact it's probably been asked several times before.


What makes you the angriest in Korea?

My answers in no particular order:

1. contstruction that begins at sunup


Dude, construction all over the world begins at sunup! Thats why we went to university mate, so we don't have to get up at 5am to lay bricks or lug wood beams around in the pouring rain.

[kiwiboy_nz_99]

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