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RJjr
Joined: 17 Aug 2006
Location: Turning on a Lamp
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| CoDeReBeL wrote: |
| maeil wrote: |
If you're a guy, smoke wherever you damn well please.
If you're a girl, you're expected to smoke only indoors. Be prepared for dirty looks if you're walking down the street with a cig. |
Man, it just gets better and better for the wife here. Anything else she needs to know? |
Since your wife is blonde, you might want to read these two posts:
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I can't say I took the time to read all the previous posts, but here's my bit:
2+ years in Korea, "assaulted" twice. I am (or was, explanation to follow..) a tall, blonde female from the USA.
First time was when I was walking home at night from my friend's house, a route I took pretty much every night. It was fairly late, but this was in Bundang, come on. Two ajosshi businessmen on a corner of the street playing with themselves, junk out for everyone to see (though at that time of night, there weren't many people). I didn't see what they were doing until I was almost upon them. They caught sight of me and grabbed me, started trying to pull me off of the sidewalk into a kind of dark bushy area. They didn't expect me to fight back though - kicked them a few times, whacked one of them over the head with my bag of apples, and they released me and I ran.
Second time was about six months later, I was in the elevator of my officetel building. In the basement of my building there are a bunch of casinos, so there are often drunk ajosshis hanging around late. I got on the elevator on the first floor and there were two of them on there. I had to go up to the 6th floor. One of them started gesturing towards me and laughing "Russia" to his buddy.. then he came over and ran his hand down my shoulder. When I brushed him off he got pissed and slammed me into the wall of the elevator a few times before his friend pulled him off of me. Again I got off and ran, but I got a big green bruise on my cheek and even small scar to remind me of the fun times I've had here.
So because both incidents ended with my running, there was no result from any sort of law enforcement. The only result has been my dyeing my hair dark brown. Nothing's happened since then, I don't get called Russian any more, and I feel a little more anonymous.
Hair is going back to blonde as soon as my time here is done, though... |
| dalpengi wrote: |
| Are you blond? I used to live in a small city and one girl had terrible problems because everyone thought she was a Russian prostitute and this she claimed, was because of her hair color. The people in her apartment building hated her and she got harassed on the streets. It was that sort of place� lots of navy guys there, huge demand� |
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uberscheisse
Joined: 02 Dec 2003
Location: japan is better than korea.
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| Posted: Wed Jun 06, 2007 7:47 am Post subject: |
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| cosmo wrote: |
| Smokers don't care about their own health, of course they don't care about the health of others. |
addiction is where common sense goes to die. |
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Masta_Don
Joined: 17 Aug 2006
Location: Hyehwa-dong, Seoul
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| Posted: Wed Jun 06, 2007 8:53 am Post subject: |
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| Tell me I'm wrong, please, but, on the books, women smoking without a roof over their head, bus stops and the like would be okay, is illegal. So I heard from a k-girl, not that it's enforced. |
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CoDeReBeL
Joined: 04 May 2007
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| Posted: Wed Jun 06, 2007 9:10 am Post subject: |
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| RJjr wrote: |
| Since your wife is blonde, you might want to read these two posts: |
I know. I read them already. I even made her read them and she doesn't care. She would like to learn how to say, "What the *beep* do you think you're doing?" in Korean, though.  That's her usual response whenever some drunken sot accosts her. |
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irwinpryce
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Joined: 30 Apr 2007
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| Posted: Wed Jun 06, 2007 10:51 am Post subject: |
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so i can smoke, and bow it around everyone else. thanks
What is Japan like regarding smoking? I assume same rules as South Korea? |
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tomwaits
Joined: 05 Feb 2003
Location: PC Bong
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| Posted: Wed Jun 06, 2007 2:04 pm Post subject: |
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some bad info---at least on page 1...
Can't smoke in MANY restaurants---generally if you cany drink---no smoking
Not on subway |
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andrew
Joined: 30 Jan 2003
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oskinny1
Joined: 10 Nov 2006
Location: Right behind you!
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| Posted: Wed Jun 06, 2007 3:04 pm Post subject: |
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| IncognitoHFX wrote: |
| Oh, it'll be nice not to be treated as a second class citizen when I get there. |
 HAAAaahaahahahaha!!!! |
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IncognitoHFX
Joined: 06 May 2007
Location: Yeongtong, Suwon
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| Posted: Wed Jun 06, 2007 5:27 pm Post subject: |
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| oskinny1 wrote: |
| IncognitoHFX wrote: |
| Oh, it'll be nice not to be treated as a second class citizen when I get there. |
HAAAaahaahahahaha!!!! |
...solely because of the smoking. Trust me, I've only been on this forum a few weeks but I have an idea or two of what its like.
Context!!! |
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cbclark4
Joined: 20 Aug 2006
Location: Masan
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| Posted: Wed Jun 06, 2007 6:20 pm Post subject: |
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Your right to smoke extends to the only point where it interfers with my right to breath and not beyond.
cbc |
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Thumbnail Postermonkey
Joined: 24 Jul 2006
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| Posted: Wed Jun 06, 2007 9:02 pm Post subject: |
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| AHOY! Smoke yer brains out here in the Land of the Morning CabbageStink, but get it done while ya can...a lot of places are going to go smoke-free in a year, TOPS. Old-school hofs will be the last outposts for tobacco shenanigans. Crikey, it'll be illegal to smoke at or near a bus stop from this September! |
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Masta_Don
Joined: 17 Aug 2006
Location: Hyehwa-dong, Seoul
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| Posted: Wed Jun 06, 2007 9:04 pm Post subject: |
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| Thumbnail Postermonkey wrote: |
| AHOY! Smoke yer brains out here in the Land of the Morning CabbageStink, but get it done while ya can...a lot of places are going to go smoke-free in a year, TOPS. Old-school hofs will be the last outposts for tobacco shenanigans. Crikey, it'll be illegal to smoke at or near a bus stop from this September! |
If California can't enforce their no-smoking ban in public areas, then I doubt Korea will be able to. |
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HighTreason
Joined: 15 Jun 2007
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| Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2007 1:09 pm Post subject: Really? Cool! |
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So smoking is really that prevelant in South Korea?? That's the best news I've heard all day! I have actually been down in the dumps a bit because I heard something about a strict smoking ban being in effect in Korea. Is this not true or do people just ignore it?
I see you are in Korea now incognito, what have you found to be true? I agree that it will be very nice not to be treated like a second class citizen (again, purely because of the smoking).
A country that still has some freedom, can it be true?? |
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peppermint
Joined: 13 May 2003
Location: traversing the minefields of caddishness.
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| Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2007 1:58 pm Post subject: |
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Women don't smoke in public in Korea, except maybe in bars, and even then it gets them the rep of being "bad"( though that's generally a good thing in that context, hmm)
Otherwise, in public places, they go to have a smoke in the washrooms. AShtrays and often matches in most stalls. |
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HighTreason
Joined: 15 Jun 2007
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| Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2007 4:33 pm Post subject: |
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| Women don't smoke in public in Korea, except maybe in bars, and even then it gets them the rep of being "bad"( though that's generally a good thing in that context, hmm) |
Good thing? How so? I mean I can see that many guys find the "bad" thing sexy so I guess if they are going for that sort of thing, the added stereotype there could be helpful. However, I'm sure there are women who enjoy smoking in Korea and do not want the "bad" label, and I'm sure they will not think that's a very good thing. |
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