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[indiercj]

[lush72]

Because I was irritated and was anticipating replies to the effect of how it was my fault for not understanding such and such.

My bad.

[rapier]

An intoxicated idiot giving you grief on public transport can and does happen in any country in the world. The only difference in this case is that alcohol unleashed the racist anti American sentiment barely hidden, in the psyche of most koreans.
Of course its wrong that any one individual should be targetted for the percieved wrongs of the country he happens to come from, but hey, people have been calling me a racist white settler from S.Africa in every country I've been to. And I usually have even more black friends than they do.

[dogbert]

[Toby]

Someone here has got a signature along the lines of:

"Never say drunk what you would say sober."

Unfortunately this is not the case when it comes to drunk Korean men blaming you for being a foreigner.

Do you have any idea what he was saying or was it just alcoholic rant and rave? If it was a waffling alcoholic, then they are EVERYWHERE! Just don't get involvedin converstaions with them when they are evidently drunk and irrate, as this irritates them even more.

[William Beckerson]

[vegetable]

"In France they kiss on mainstreet Amour Amour not cheap display."-joni mitchell

Cultures and behaviours change and develop and in that there is always some conflict.

[Alias]

"Unfortunately this is not the case when it comes to drunk Korean men blaming you for being a foreigner. "

I wonder what these guys want? Do they want us to apologize for being in "their" country? Best is to just ignore drunks as best you can.

[HardyandTiny]

It's all about law enforcement.
If a Korean knows that they can tell you to go F yourself and there's nothing you can legally do, then from time to time you are going to run into some spoiled jackass who abuses the fact that not one single cop in Korea is going to arrest a Korean for breaking a harrassment law.

If a Korean in that subway situation were to come over to me and quietly explain to me that what I was doing was inapprpriate in their culture, then I would definitely stop doing what I was doing.
But for someone to lash out loudly, that's harrassment.
Then again, your Korean girlfriend knew it was inappropriate, and I feel she was wrong to allow you to touch her in a way that is inappropriate in her public culture.
The man who yelled at you, he should have quietly spoken to your girlfriend about it.
And you should also know that if you mess around with cultural taboos in public you should expect trouble and not be surprised. This is not unique to Korea.

[HardyandTiny]

[HardyandTiny]

[rapier]

Have to agree with H& T here. I'm generally speaking an ajoshee hater. They do act like big babies some of the time. How a race of ugly, flabby miserable men can spawn a nation holding such beauties for women is beyond me.

[anae]

[HardyandTiny]

[rapier]

Whats worse, is that they're ninja turtles.
Don't mind me, I'm evil sometimes...