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I went into a bookstore and asked for a 한일사전 (Korean-Japanese dictionary).
They directed me to a Korean-English dictionary, so I had to protest a couple of times that it was not a 한일사전 but a 한영하전 (Korean-English dictionary).
I guess it's hard enough to imagine a foreigner showing interest in a second language, so it is inconceivable that a foreigner could show interest in a third language.

I know that doesn't beat Exciting Head's story, but I thought it might add something.

[Natalia]

That Korea had a war.

Seriously, I have had many Koreans surprised I had heard about it.

It's a bit hard to miss, what with this being 'South Korea' and not just 'Korea'.

[Len8]

When I go to a Ta bang and ask for ul mu cha. Often the patrons and the workers crack up when I order the stuff. Seems as though they just don't expect foreigeners to know what it is. Once had an attractive housewife in a Ta bang tell me "my thing would go down" iff I drank too much of it.

She actually rang later to invite me to go sing in a norebong with her and her friend. Turned out that she was always visiting her husband in the hospital and stopped off to buy coffee at the tabang where I met her. Didn't like her husband apparently, and was called a "nongdengi" by her friend in the norebong. It appeared she wanted to play around as much as possible. Not an uncommon thing here with women in their 30's and early 40's.

[princess]

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Here is an old thread on a similar topic.
Newbies, don't miss it:

http://www.eslcafe.com/forums/korea/viewtopic.php?t=44942&highlight=

[OCOKA Dude]

[tomato]

It seems like Koreans not only think we don't know anything,
but that we aren't even interested in learning anything.

I get curious reactions whenever I enroll in a Japanese class.
Other people think either that I'M in the wrong classroom or THEY'RE in the wrong classroom.

[Vancouver]

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[endo]

One of the stangest ones I've heard was that in the past it was common for young teenage boys (especially in the countryside) to have their first sexual experience with their mothers.

Supposedly mom would jerk them off.

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Now I don't know if that was true......but that's what I heard.



I've also seen pictures of Korean women who would go topless a la the way indeginous trubal women do today.

[mikekim]

[VirginIslander]

Strange word orgins. For example, "part-time job" is from German.

[MissSeoul]

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