Korean Job Discussion Forums

[stevieg4ever]

There has been (as ever) a lot of negativity about Korea recently. So, what things are you glad to be rid off from your home country I ask? For me it would be the following (from the UK):

1) uneducated, dirty and poorly behaved teenagers whose English makes my 3rd graders sound like Stehphen Fry, who dress like gangsta rappers and who couldn't use a preposition or article if their lives depended on it
2) ridiculous and condescending prices for things like transport, medice, eating out, cinema tickets and just about anything else you can think of
3) crap, lower class in-your-face celebrity culture that glorifies talentless retards with the intellectual capacity equivalent of a baked potato (thanks for that phrase Spinoza)
4) miserable weather during the summer
5) political correctness - Blair's lasting legacy that now governs the country
6) being forced to work alongside (and under) ignorant halfwits
7) terrestrial television period, especially reality tv, eastenders etc
8] travelling 1.5 hours each way between home and work

[VanIslander]

advertising (i felt seriously inundated by ads everywhere when i went home to visit)

[Bibbitybop]

In response to OP's numbers:

1. Go to a club, they are called Kiggers.
2. Eating at some restaurants here can be almost as bad, but I guess if you are used to the pound, then Korea is good.
3. Korea has plenty of that. "Tell me, tell me...." And they love foreign trash, too. See -> Beyonce
4. Yellow dust and monsoons
6. Hogwans
7. Gag comedy
Seoul traffic

[blurgalurgalurga]

I'm happy to be away from the meth-heads, crackheads, and junkies, and violent cops.

[butlerian]

In the UK, chav culture and anti-social behavour is quickly becoming the norm. A recent survey also showed that Brits are the least globally aware (see http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/education/7087590.stm ) which is not a good sign - highlights the ignorance that is prevalent. It's also much more dangerous, on the whole, in practically every way except in relation to driving accidents. Apart from my family and the food, there's not a lot I miss about the UK.

[BS.Dos.]

*Coughs*

�6 for a pack of smokes.

80 for a �5 here daddy oh.

[stevieg4ever]

its worrying isnt it? Not just that it happens but the fact it is so widely tolerated and accepted almost like people have a right to go round intimidating other people and engage in anti-social behaviour.

[ajgeddes]

[BS.Dos.]

^I'm not suggesting that I'm a happy content smoker, far from it, I'm smoking more in Korea than I ever did back home and hating myself for it. It's just that doing so here is so much more easier on the pocket than over there.

However, it'll be short lived as I'm considering getting patched up in the NY.

[Pligganease]

Big medicine.

[Dome Vans]

*Fat mings

*Temping briefly at some job, and being told if you work hard then you may be as respected as Ken over there. Cue Fat lifer, who's really quite sad, and will probably tell you that you don't need to be mad to work here, but it helps.

*Christmas parties at Brannigans in Rotheram. "Eating, dancing and Covorting!" Not effing likely. Not even at the over 25's night.

*Chavs

* People who've never heard the expression "You can't polish a turd" When they soup up their Vauxhall Astra MkII

[Young FRANKenstein]

I sure as shit don't miss hometown tipping "culture".

[SHANE02]

Paul Holmes

[Ilsanman]

I will have to go with a few of what others said.

1. Political correctness.

2. The prices of things.

3. Indians.

4. Street youth.

5. People who ride the buses in general.

6. Cold winter weather.



Things I miss the most:

1. Potato chips
2. Slurpees.
3. Big fat thick pizza
4. Having communities of people who have similar hobbies to me
5. Driving
6. Peace and quiet
7. Fresh air
8. A safe place to jog and/or ride a bicycle

[Big_Bird]