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fakeplastiktree · Joined: 15 Oct 2007 Location: Northeast Seoul

If no one uses deoderant/antiperspirant here, why don't I ever smell B.O.? I was in Prague at the beginning of year, where deoderant also isn't used much, and a lot of people stink there. Why don't Koreans stink?

genezorm · Joined: 01 Jul 2007 Location: Mokpo

koreans are higher on the evolutionary scale than western people
that's why we don't smell bad, are not hairy like monkeys, and are better at maths and sciences

mnhnhyouh · Joined: 21 Nov 2006 Location: The Middle Kingdom

I have had a couple of bad smelling Koreans sit next to me on the subway, I find the levels to be about the same as in the West.

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ardis · Joined: 20 Apr 2006 Location: Seoul

I actually don't notice a smell as much here, either. At home, if I were on a crowded subway, I would definitely smell a very heady, dirty-hair scent. Really strong body odor smells kind of...spicy (?) to me, and I really can't stand it. There is definitely some BO (my middle school boys coming into class after PE...) but I don't notice it as much as I do at home.

Imbroglio · Posted: Thu Apr 17, 2008 7:14 pm Post subject:

The kimchi makes the Korean to be no smell

Pink Freud · Joined: 27 Jan 2003 Location: Daegu

Lack of apocrine sweat glands.

Really.

thatwhitegirl · Joined: 31 Jan 2007 Location: ROK

Maybe not BO, but there is a distinct smell of garlic-kimchi. Very strong. The high-school boys I teach don't smell like that as much as just sweaty locker-room with cheap cologne. But the teachers...wow.

pkang0202 · Joined: 09 Mar 2007

I have BO, but you can't smell it unless I run a marathon and not shower for a day.

Whereas my friend DJ, this guy had BO you could smell a mile away. Probably 2 miles if you were down wind.

I guess odor causing bacteria just doesn't like the taste of my sweat.

Big_Bird · Posted: Thu Apr 17, 2008 7:58 pm Post subject:

Suwoner10 · Joined: 10 Dec 2007