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[TheMrCul]

<<I was in the swimming pool shower room and a Korean ajuma came up to me and felt me up. Did NOT appreciate that but had no idea what to do. That was definately the strangest thing that a Korean person has done to me.

I do think that the old lady with the dead rabbit was stranger and more disgusting than my incident. why would anyone do that????>>

Same thing happened to my sister in Japan (except they were a little more "discrete")
They're curious. You probably have different curves so they're interested. I'm not justifying it, however. I think the ones who do that are quite basic. But that's Korea I guess.

[Derrek]

When I was riding on the subway in Seoul, and the old "subway person" sitting next to me was fascinated with my leg hair. He kept trying to touch it, and I almost got up and left, but was just too darn tired (I had waited too long for the seat).

I ignored him, only to feel a weird scraping on my leg about 2 minutes later. He had pulled out a disposable razor, and was trying to shave my leg hair!!!

The Koreans across the way had a look of shock which nearly rivaled mine.

[Joe Thanks]

[peppermint]

Well. . I was walking down one of the main streets in a smaller city, and it's a bright sunny day, everyone is out shopping, all good, right?

All of a sudden an ajuma grabbs my arm and pulls me over to the front of this department store. I, in my innocence, think " okay- they're gonna give me some coupons, get me to sample something, no problem."
Not Quite- they wanted to WAX my arms! ( I'm a blonde- my arm hair is barely visible)

Another time, I had to get a full medical checkup, and after the chest x-ray, they insisted on measuring my ribcage and boobs. Afterwards they looked like this:

[Corporal]

[Beeg]

I am actually getting quite annoyed by the number of threads concering how weird Koreans are.

So a guy pushed you or an old lady took a dead rabbit out her pocket. These things don;t just happen in Korea. Have you ever rode the London, Paris or New York subways?? Now these are places that you find real weirdos.

[Joe Thanks]

Joe returns to layeth the smacketh down:

[Derrek]

[lush72]

[shawner88]

In Ulsan: A drunk room salon agashi had her taxi stop at a convenient store where I happened to buying Shin Ramyon at 4AM after a night of Diablo 2 at the PC bang. She saw me and acted really surprised. I walked out, tired and oblivious, my head swarming with images of a Barbarian hacking and slashing. Well, she bought cake and kimchi of all things and chased me down to give them to me. She couldn't speak a word of English and at that time I knew very little Korean. She paid the taxi and went back to the motel where I was staying. She wanted to eat the cake and kimchi and drink beer. To cut to the chase, she didn't want to sleep in the motel, I think she was telling me it that would be like her job. So we went back to her little pad across town, she talked to me in Korean for about an hour, then we went to "sleep" and I left in the morning. That was really a weird but highly memorable experience.

[Tiger Beer]

[mithridates]

Hmm...I get quite a few weird things happening to me, but they're usually not physical like the ones I've seen so far here.

Last week I was studying at a Starbucks when a lady spotted me reading a book. It's the Analects of Confucius in the original Chinese plus Korean explanation so it's no easy read. She asked me, "You study Korean?" to which I replied, "�׳� �ѱ��� ���� �� �ƴϰ� �����." (Not Korean, it's Confucius.)
"What?"
"�����, ���ڰ� ���� ������ å�ε���..." (You know, the Analects, with Confucius in it..." and proceeded to hand her the book. She took a look at it, asked "It's difficult, isn't it?" to which I replied, "�ƴ�, �����ƿ�..."(No, it's okay.) The conversation was going nowhere so I went back to the book.
Then, an hour later she came around to my table again with a copy of ������� (A buy and sell free newspaper) that she had been reading and dropped it on my table, saying, "If you want." I shrugged, a bit confused, and didn't look at it, because well, it's an old buy and sell newspaper!
After I left though I wondered if she was actually a spy and had written something secret inside the otherwise non-descript newspaper. I'll never know.

Another day I was riding on the subway and an old lady was handing out advertisements for her church. She was about to hand me one when she saw my non-Korean face and proceeded to give me a different one. It was...Russian. I don't know Russian yet. It was cute though, quite a simple train of thought. Give foreign language script to foreigners, they will understand...�ܱ������״� �翬�� �ܱ���� �� ������!

I never get anything really weird I suppose, just a lot of small incidents.

[peppermint]

[khyber]

frankly, i laughed my ASS off at the rabbit story. Man, that was funyn stuff....and i'd probably do the same thing too (if i could chose the right person).

[Joe Thanks]