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[danby_ll]

Just a curious question, how many here have a good number of Korean friends you hang out with on a regular basis?

Is your "group" made up mainly of other foreigners? Do Koreans make up 50% of your closest friends? Less? More?

[Cerriowen]

I have been here 1 year and I have 3 Koreans that I consider good friends.

In my experience it's easy to find Koreans who want to hang out with me, but they view me more like a fashion excessory to show off to their friends, or they're looking for free english lessons. Usually after they've shown me off, and I loose my "usefulness" they stop coming around. Or once they pass their TEPS/TOEFL etc.

I got hurt really badly a few times, and after that I've started keeping my distance a bit. I don't have anything against Koreans, I just got tired of trying to sift through the ass-hats.

Most of my friends are waegooks.

[oneofthesarahs]

Most of my friends are Korean. Probably a good 80%. This is for two reasons:

1. I live in a rural area and don't run into many fellow foreigners.
2. I'm interested in doing more than just drinking beer and getting laid.

[Satori]

[Vancouver]

indeed. I don't get what's so great about beer

[ginger7]

For a while, I was only hanging out with Koreans. It was fine at the time, but the fact that our conversations became increasingly shallow and always focused on the same topics began to frustrate me. I was annoyed by how my Korean friends refused to take charge of their lives, even though they complained all the time. I think it's impossible to achieve depth with Korean friends. There's a definite language/cultural barrier.

So I switched to the foreigner scene in the neighborhood. Things are much better now...

[Ginormousaurus]

All my guy friends are foreigners and all my female friends are Koreans. I drink and party with the guys and go to movies and drink coffee and stuff with the girls. I'm very satisfied with the mix.

[IncognitoHFX]

[adventureman]

[Yu_Bum_suk]

Korean friends are great until you try to double book and do something with more than one of them. Then it's like putting unfamiliar cats together.

[shaunew]

I hang out with my wife who is Korean, sometimes her friends all Korean. Or I hang out with my buddies weagooks, once a week I go drinking with all the girls from my work which is cool.

[Satori]

[ajgeddes]

I have been here 3 years, and I have no good Korean friends. I have a few that I am acquaintances with and a few I would call friends, but none that I would ever call to see what they are doing. I have got a lot of foreign friends but most of those are people I have met through personal interests so we have stuff in common.

[danby_ll]

[Julius]

If you want good friends you have to befriend people about 5 years older than you to hit the right mindset and be on the same level.


True!