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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