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[Gunther]

I was actually thinkin' of posting a similar thread... after being in ROK for more than 4 years, the best times I've had meeting Foreigners was in the 1st year... but as ppl come and go... it seems rather striking when you go to local hangout that you've frequented for some time... and meet up with a whole lot of crazies... and you begin to wonder... is it me or is crazy a norm somewhere out there... but then again...

[Bibbitybop]

Freaks are why I like traveling all over the world. They are all over, not just in Korea. They are only "freaks" because they don't have corporate office jobs, a wife, 2 kids and golden retriever.

There are some freaky freaks in Korea, but the freaks I hang out with are simply open-minded and not happy in the prepackaged lifestyle of modern western society.

My friends back home called me crazy for coming to Korea. I called them boring.

[faster]

Freaks are why I like traveling all over the world. They are all over, not just in Korea. They are only "freaks" because they don't have corporate office jobs, a wife, 2 kids and golden retriever.
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This is ridiculous and not at all what the OP is talking about. None of my friends back home has a corporate job, a wife, 2 kids or a retriever (of any color).

[twg]

Speaking as a "Shoo fly" type:

Most of the foreigners here are fresh out of university. They tend to fall into one of either categories:

1- Still have the cliquish high school mentality and think being drunk is the bestest thing ever.

2- Hyper-competitive sorts very determined to show the world how much bigger their nutsack is compared to everyone else's.

I find the first pretty dull, and the second annoying. And since that's 90% of anyone I meet here, I don't see a need to hang too often.

Married folks ARE a lot better to spend time with. But their only particular problem is that they want everyone they know to join them in their Scientology-like married lifestyle. But I'm not saying that's particularly offensive since they simply want other to know their happiness.

There's also the idea that I don't find my own company all that horrible and nor do I need to surround myself with a hundred pseudo-friends to validate myself.

[jaganath69]

[cbclark4]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GE7EKwZoQow&mode=related&search=dunno

[Qinella]

[arjuna]

[Boodleheimer]

i think there are far more weirdos in china than in korea.

[bacasper]

[wylies99]

bacasper- super troll is back?

[VanIslander]

[JongnoGuru]

Forget the waegook weirdos and freaks, what's up with all the waegook shabby dressers? More importantly, what is to be done?

Itaewon last night was once again bursting at the seams with them. The young American GIs out of uniform, I'll give them a pass. There were the usual hordes of trendily dressed Koreans. There was my own natty crew. And then there were people who looked dressed for a late-night run to Blockbuster Video. Only they weren't out to rent DVDs. No, they were wandering up and down the boulevard and the back alleys looking for food or maybe handouts, sometimes stopping in at posh establishments and embarrassing us all with their generally sloppy, lazy attire. At one point in the evening, we looked in at The Wolfhound briefly and there seemed to be a meeting of shabby dressers underway, no doubt plotting their next move. We beat a hurried retreat, undetected.

In some cases it was merely their ragamuffin apparel -- bulky, puffy synthetic coats, baseball caps and the like -- but oftentimes you could just see the vacant, down-and-out look in their faces. Pitiful and unpleasant.

It's high time the Itaewon Merchants Association, in conjunction with Seoul Immigration Office, took stern countermeasures before it's too late and Itaewon becomes a place to avoid.

[Qinella]

[Xerxes]

Hot on chicks though IMHO.