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The Worst Things About Korea
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What is the Worst Thing About Korea??
Korean Employer Does Not Honor Contract/Law
18%
 18%  [ 9 ]
Working Too Many Hours
8%
 8%  [ 4 ]
Students Are Too Young
2%
 2%  [ 1 ]
Lack of Discipline in the Classroom
10%
 10%  [ 5 ]
Korean Food is Terrible
12%
 12%  [ 6 ]
Koreans Are Too Nationalistic
12%
 12%  [ 6 ]
Pushing and Shoving in Public/ Spitting in Public
18%
 18%  [ 9 ]
Public Drunkenness
0%
 0%  [ 0 ]
It's Impossible To Get Credit Card/Cell Phone
2%
 2%  [ 1 ]
Dirty Streets/Air Pollution
14%
 14%  [ 7 ]
Total Votes : 48

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eliross



Joined: 14 Jun 2007

PostPosted: Wed Mar 26, 2008 6:46 pm    Post subject: The Worst Things About Korea Reply with quote

I'm curious what all the complaining is really about. I have people email me pretty regularly asking about Korea. I'm pretty middle-of-the-road about Korea. I don't hate it and I don't love it.

Don't Worry, I want to do a Best things about Korea as well. If you want to post some links to similar threads here, please do. I can't get the search to work.

I'd also like to add more options to a later poll so feel free to mention specific complaints.
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Yu_Bum_suk



Joined: 25 Dec 2004

PostPosted: Wed Mar 26, 2008 6:56 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Absolutely nothing on your list applies to me, except sometimes the food, and that's only because I'm too lazy to cook.

For me by far the most annoying thing is Koreans making such a big deal over my foreignness.
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eliross



Joined: 14 Jun 2007

PostPosted: Wed Mar 26, 2008 7:05 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I should have added a stranger in a strange land option. Employers breaking contracts is too vague as well but Dave's only allows so many poll options.
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pidgin



Joined: 31 Jul 2005
Location: Seoul

PostPosted: Wed Mar 26, 2008 7:26 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

To me it's the waygukin complainers.....and sometimes Korean (or other nationality) complainers......like it's going to change anything,.....so then.....yeah: complainers. Rolling Eyes
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Dukey77777



Joined: 28 Jun 2007
Location: Chungcheongbuk-do

PostPosted: Wed Mar 26, 2008 7:33 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yu_Bum_suk wrote:
Absolutely nothing on your list applies to me, except sometimes the food, and that's only because I'm too lazy to cook.

For me by far the most annoying thing is Koreans making such a big deal over my foreignness.


Very true. People in Seoul don't realize how different it is a couple hours outside of it. However, I just learned 뭘봐!, so at least I have something to say when guys are staring at my junk.
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Yu_Bum_suk



Joined: 25 Dec 2004

PostPosted: Wed Mar 26, 2008 7:50 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Dukey77777 wrote:
Yu_Bum_suk wrote:
Absolutely nothing on your list applies to me, except sometimes the food, and that's only because I'm too lazy to cook.

For me by far the most annoying thing is Koreans making such a big deal over my foreignness.


Very true. People in Seoul don't realize how different it is a couple hours outside of it. However, I just learned 뭘봐!, so at least I have something to say when guys are staring at my junk.


I doubt it's 'people in Seoul' so much as squeamish hagwon teachers in Seoul who have no Korean friends and don't know any better.

And it's not so much being a stranger in a strange land as being seen as a strange guy in a familiar land.
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mikeyboy122



Joined: 28 Feb 2008
Location: namyang

PostPosted: Wed Mar 26, 2008 8:52 pm    Post subject: topic Reply with quote

Great post. Glad to participate. Others opinions are always interesting, even if they annoy me. To quote from a great song by Suicidal Tendencies, "You can't bring me down". Go to you tube and listen to the uncensored version. You'll crack up.
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Cedar



Joined: 11 Mar 2003
Location: In front of my computer, again.

PostPosted: Wed Mar 26, 2008 9:17 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Uh, none of the above...
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ttompatz



Joined: 05 Sep 2005
Location: Kwangju, South Korea

PostPosted: Wed Mar 26, 2008 9:21 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Cedar wrote:
Uh, none of the above...


Monday, Wednesday and Friday, none of the above.

Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, all of the above.

Sunday, the bible thumpers who have nothing better to do than annoy the local foreigner.
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JMO



Joined: 18 Jul 2006
Location: Daegu

PostPosted: Wed Mar 26, 2008 9:36 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

pidgin wrote:
To me it's the waygukin complainers.....and sometimes Korean (or other nationality) complainers......like it's going to change anything,.....so then.....yeah: complainers. Rolling Eyes



For me its the people who complain about the waygukin complainers, followed closely by people who complain about the people who complain about the waygukin complainers. And kim chi. I hate kim chi.
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pidgin



Joined: 31 Jul 2005
Location: Seoul

PostPosted: Wed Mar 26, 2008 10:55 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yes, but the people who complain about waegukins whom complain about waygukins complaining about kimchi....OOOOooooo Shocked they really give call to complain! Twisted Evil
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Fishead soup



Joined: 24 Jun 2007
Location: Korea

PostPosted: Wed Mar 26, 2008 11:24 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I would add the idiotic new E-2 visa regs to your list. That would be #1
with me and I don't even have a criminal record.
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indytrucks



Joined: 09 Apr 2003
Location: The Shelf

PostPosted: Wed Mar 26, 2008 11:24 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The worst thing about Korea? That's easy.

90% of the Westerners who live here.
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pidgin



Joined: 31 Jul 2005
Location: Seoul

PostPosted: Wed Mar 26, 2008 11:28 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

^ another "eye-avoiding......"MY-Korea" type perhaps?
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indytrucks



Joined: 09 Apr 2003
Location: The Shelf

PostPosted: Wed Mar 26, 2008 11:29 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

pidgin wrote:
^ another "eye-avoiding......"MY-Korea" type perhaps?


No, not really. Just stating a fairly accurate assessment.
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