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newton kabiddles
Joined: 31 Mar 2007
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If I were a Korean parent I would dye my hair
If I were a Korean parent I would own a car
If I were a Korean parent I would listen to mozart
If I were a Korean parent I would own an apartment
If I were a Korean parent I would never giggle in public
If I were a Korean parent I would never be overweight |
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caniff
Joined: 03 Feb 2004
Location: All over the map
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| Posted: Wed Sep 05, 2007 8:13 am Post subject: |
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| newton kabiddles wrote: |
| King Baeksu wrote: |
| if I were a Korean parent |
If I were a Korean parent I'd never dress sexy
If I were a Korean parent I'd never drink
If I were a Korean parent I'd go to the gym every day
If I were a Korean parent I'd learn English
If I were a Korean parent I'd open my own business
If I were a Korean parent I'd buy a schnauzer
If I were a Korean parent I'd have three kids
If I were a Korean parent I'd never use air conditoning
If I were a Korean parent I'd throw out TV
If I were a Korean parent...hahaha..if I were a giraffe I'd stretch out my neck for food! woohoohoo..if I were a Korean parent....that's a good one |
If I were a Korean parent, I'd be looking into possibly relocating the family unit. |
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twg
Joined: 02 Nov 2006
Location: Getting some fresh air...
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| Posted: Wed Sep 05, 2007 8:37 am Post subject: |
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| King Baeksu wrote: |
With a girl like the one just left catchin' my back, who do you think? |
Self-referenced them into submission, then? |
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newton kabiddles
Joined: 31 Mar 2007
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| Posted: Wed Sep 05, 2007 8:39 am Post subject: |
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| mamama, sometime stock go down li 5 maybe 10% then Korean say hey hardy you bad, but then stock go up, damn Gorean say hey hardy you my hunky fuse...but tiny never got some, he just keepin da books...tiny keepins..one day gonna step into the sun. |
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komerican
Joined: 17 Dec 2006
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| Posted: Wed Sep 05, 2007 1:32 pm Post subject: |
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[quote="King Baeksu"]
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It just occurred to me...what this country REEEAAALLLLYYYY needs is pot.
Weed, smoke, mary jane, bud, and so forth. It would grow fantastically well here. |
Actually, marijuana was plentiful and legal here in Korea until 1976, when it was criminalized by big-man shorty Park Chung Hee, presumably because it interfered with worker productivity and all that. Since Korea didn't have tobacco until about 400 years ago (imported by the Japanese), what do you think all those yangban had in their long pipes before then? |
You're saying that koreans were smoking marijuana before President Park banned it? Do you have sources that proove this?
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I hope the program has a segment on kockblocking racist Korean and kyopo guys who start fights with whites guys in Hongdae for no reason. A while ago I was standing out in front of M2 talking with my female translator friend, soon to be married, and her girlfriend when a drunken male kyopo acquaintance of theirs stumbled out of the club, saw me talking to them and immediately started trying to pick a fight with me, jabbing his finger in my chest, swearing loud jibberish at me and so on. Fortunately for his sake, my friend pulled him away into a nearby alley, calmed him down and informed him how retarded he was being.
A credit to his race, I'll tell you! |
Just how are korean men kockblocking you?
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| crazy_arcade wrote: |
| I just can't understand the logic involved. |
Precisely the point. There is no logic involved. Just ask Koamerican, Just Another Day or Damulgun, they'll know what I'm talking about.
At the end of the day, and as far as this program is concerned, like attracts like. Korea is often amateur hour, hence the large number of amateur ESL teachers here. Korea is often trashy, hence the many trashy oeguknomdul here.
Pretty simple, when you think about it. |
What do you mean with this? Go ahead and specify some of the points I've made that you think lacks "logic". |
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jaganath69
Joined: 17 Jul 2003
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| Posted: Wed Sep 05, 2007 2:47 pm Post subject: |
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| caniff wrote: |
KBS ended the program by making a statement that many Dave's posters might agree with: (paraphrased) "There are many worthy foreign teachers in Korea, but the current system of corrupt recruiters and hagwon owners, the deficient immigration verification process, and the appeal of easy money for little effort has resulted in the influx of poor teachers besmirching the standing of the reputable foreign teachers who take their jobs seriously."
Amen. I can only hope a few Koreans stayed awake to see the last part. |
I agree somewhat, but there is alway the tendency to couch these stories in terms of sex and drugs. Even yesterday, with the dope bust nonsense, the SMP spokesman added an element of the old 'foreigners are lusting after our women' meme. Just goes to show that even when the press here hits on an issue that needs mentioning, they can't help but go down the old pen*s envy route. It seems to be something deeply ingrained here. |
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Young FRANKenstein
Joined: 02 Oct 2006
Location: Castle Frankenstein (that's FRONKensteen)
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| Posted: Wed Sep 05, 2007 3:26 pm Post subject: |
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| caniff wrote: |
| KBS ended the program by making a statement that many Dave's posters might agree with: (paraphrased) "There are many worthy foreign teachers in Korea, but the current system of corrupt recruiters and hagwon owners, the deficient immigration verification process, and the appeal of easy money for little effort has resulted in the influx of poor teachers besmirching the standing of the reputable foreign teachers who take their jobs seriously." |
Yeah, but I don't see them doing exposes on the current system of corrupt recruiters and hagwon owners, or the deficient immigration verification process. |
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ajgeddes
Joined: 28 Apr 2004
Location: Yongsan
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| Posted: Wed Sep 05, 2007 3:34 pm Post subject: |
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| Young FRANKenstein wrote: |
| caniff wrote: |
| KBS ended the program by making a statement that many Dave's posters might agree with: (paraphrased) "There are many worthy foreign teachers in Korea, but the current system of corrupt recruiters and hagwon owners, the deficient immigration verification process, and the appeal of easy money for little effort has resulted in the influx of poor teachers besmirching the standing of the reputable foreign teachers who take their jobs seriously." |
Yeah, but I don't see them doing exposes on the current system of corrupt recruiters and hagwon owners, or the deficient immigration verification process. |
Actually, a decent part of the program was about that. |
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King Baeksu
Joined: 22 Oct 2006
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| Posted: Wed Sep 05, 2007 4:53 pm Post subject: |
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| You're saying that koreans were smoking marijuana before President Park banned it? Do you have sources that proove this? |
Dude, are you retarded? Why would the ROK gov't freakin' criminalize it if there wasn't a perceived problem? Google or Naver "Shin Jung-hyeon" for starters and freakin' educate yourself!
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| Just how are korean men kockblocking you? |
Most recent incident would be late July this year in Manhattan at a bar called Old Town. A group of 10 college-aged Korean girls and 1 young Korean guy come in and are standing right near our table (I'm with two friends, one a professor of American History at NYU and the other a British documentary filmmaker). They are a group of graphic design yuhak students out with their Miguknom teacher celebrating the end of their class. I start a friendly chat with the Korean guy and after about 10 minutes, I ask, "So who are your friends? Care to introduce us?" and he just says flat out "No" and walks away. No problem, after about 15 minutes I start chatting up one of the cutest girls (who is bored out of her mind because no one else in the group is talking to her) and invite her to sit down at our booth. Which she does and we're having a great time, with several of the other girls hovering nearby and oohing and ahhing because I can speak Korean and taking our pictures and so on. Suddenly, the Korean guy comes over, says something to the girl, she gets up and says nervously, "Uh, I guess we're all leaving now." Nice of Oppa to ask her opinion on what she and her friends wanted to do that evening, and nice of him to think that even with a ratio of 10 girls to 1 guy he still had to have them all for himself. Oh, and nice way to mingle with the natives, which presumably was why he came to the U.S. in the first place. Not!
(BTW, I got her email addy right before she got up from our table and now she's back in Seoul, so the last laugh's on Oppa!)
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| Go ahead and specify some of the points I've made that you think lacks "logic". |
See above point regarding marijuana.
Dude, I'm not going to engage you any further simply because you're no fun to deal with and I could deconstruct you with both hands tied behind my back and that's boring. You are a cliche and so predictable that even now my eyes are glazing over as a type this... |
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robot
Joined: 07 Mar 2006
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| Posted: Wed Sep 05, 2007 5:01 pm Post subject: |
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i watched the show in the jjimjilbang last night with a crowd of koreans. it was really embarassing.
i ended up changing the channel after a while. |
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endo
Joined: 14 Mar 2004
Location: Seoul...my home
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| Posted: Wed Sep 05, 2007 7:07 pm Post subject: |
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| komerican wrote: |
| Just how are korean men kockblocking you? |
I can't speak for King Baeksu, but here are my stories:
(1) So I'm on a subway with three of my Korean "friends" on our way back from a hike on Gwanaksan. We're standing by the door talking and out of the left corner of my eye I notice a pair of young attractive Korean women sitting down. They both smile and one waves at me. We're making direct eye contact here so I know it's directed at me because my Korean "friends" had their backs turned to them.
So I smile and wave back. Well, the Korean guys I'm with notice this and all of a sudden form a semi-circle around me to block either the girls or my view.
I couldn't beleive it!
(2) Several times I've been walking with my Korean girlfriend on the streets I've had older Korean men (obviously intoxicated) yell obsenities at us.
(3) My favorite: more times than I can count, I've been dancing at a club with a Korean woman and have had some Korean guy attempt to come in the middle of us.
I've on two occasions literally had Korean guys pull a Korean girl off me.
(4) I was at a loungue with a big group and I started chatting with one of the Korean girls there. It was noisy so I asked her if she would like to go to a quieter place to talk. She agreed and we sat down at the other side of the loungue.
Two minutes later the convo was going great and there was a hell of a lot of flirting going on. But I kept noticing these two Korean guys in our group who kept staring at us.
A minute later one of the guys comes over and sits down with us. It was really awkward cause it totally killed the mood. All three of us could feel the tension, but the Korean guy stayed with us and just wouldn't leave.
Later that night I was having a smoke with the same girl and those same two guys came outside. They didn't even smoke with us. 
(5) I was getting it on with this Korean girl at my appartment when all of a sudden a Korean dude in a parachute broke through my third floor window.  Alright I made that one up, but you get the jist of it.
Moral of the story. Some local men that I've met here (not all) are straight up insecure little biatches when it comes to seeing myself with a Korean women.
However, I have some awesome gyopo friends who have flagrently attempted to hook me up with a Korean girl.
As a result the gyopo men are cool in my book. But, I would seriously think twice before considering a native Korean to become friends with me.
I feel bad saying that, but my experiences in this country have led to that mindset. |
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King Baeksu
Joined: 22 Oct 2006
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| Posted: Thu Sep 06, 2007 12:36 am Post subject: |
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So I asked some of my students at Hongdae today if any of them had seen In-Depth 60 Minutes last night and none of them had. They didn't even know what it was about until I told them.
I was surprised that they had heard nothing about this massive national controversy until one or two of them remembered having vaguely seen something about English teachers doing drugs on Naver. But they seemed bored by the whole topic, like it was stale and yesterday's news.
I'll ask a new batch tomorrow, but as far as I can tell for many Koreans, surprise, surprise, foreigners in Korea are not the center of their universe, and they generally have other more important things to think about.
If all you read was expat blogs on this issue, you'd think all expats in Korea were about to be thrown into concentration camps or something by a nation fed up once and for all.
Funny! |
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Paji eh Wong
Joined: 03 Jun 2003
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| Posted: Thu Sep 06, 2007 1:34 am Post subject: |
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Did the sky fall?
No? Excellent.
Bedwetters, you may now change your sheets. |
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eamo
Joined: 08 Mar 2003
Location: Shepherd's Bush, 1964.
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| Posted: Thu Sep 06, 2007 1:37 am Post subject: |
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So I asked some of my students at Hongdae today if any of them had seen In-Depth 60 Minutes last night and none of them had. They didn't even know what it was about until I told them.
I was surprised that they had heard nothing about this massive national controversy until one or two of them remembered having vaguely seen something about English teachers doing drugs on Naver. But they seemed bored by the whole topic, like it was stale and yesterday's news.
I'll ask a new batch tomorrow, but as far as I can tell for many Koreans, surprise, surprise, foreigners in Korea are not the center of their universe, and they generally have other more important things to think about.
If all you read was expat blogs on this issue, you'd think all expats in Korea were about to be thrown into concentration camps or something by a nation fed up once and for all.
Funny! |
I think you're right there......it's a pretty small minority of Koreans who would get their panties in a twist about this. Most Koreans, even if they saw the program, would continue to send their kids to hagwons because that's what every concientious parent in Korea is supposed to do these days. So little Soo-mi doesn't fall behind and have to go to, god forbid, a countryside university!! |
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The_Conservative
Joined: 15 Mar 2007
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| Posted: Thu Sep 06, 2007 2:15 am Post subject: |
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| King Baeksu wrote: |
So I asked some of my students at Hongdae today if any of them had seen In-Depth 60 Minutes last night and none of them had. They didn't even know what it was about until I told them.
I was surprised that they had heard nothing about this massive national controversy until one or two of them remembered having vaguely seen something about English teachers doing drugs on Naver. But they seemed bored by the whole topic, like it was stale and yesterday's news.
I'll ask a new batch tomorrow, but as far as I can tell for many Koreans, surprise, surprise, foreigners in Korea are not the center of their universe, and they generally have other more important things to think about.
If all you read was expat blogs on this issue, you'd think all expats in Korea were about to be thrown into concentration camps or something by a nation fed up once and for all.
Funny! |
Heck I already said something to this effect back on page six... And so it goes. |
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