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Newbie
Joined: 07 Feb 2003
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 Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2008 11:06 pm Post subject: Ten Super-Confused Ajumas |
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Picture this:
Tall, super white, Newbie playing in the park with his 15 month old daughter (mixed). About ten, 60-70 year old ajummas getting all excited and saying amonst themselves, in Korean, things like:
"Ahhh, so pretty"
"Is she a foreigner?"
"No, no. Must be Korean"
"Who's he?"
"Why does she have curly hair? Is it a perm?"
"Yes, perm-uh, perm-uh"
"Wow, big eyes, big eyes. So lucky"
"Who's her mother? Where's her mother?"
"Why is he with the little girl?" (and she looks EXACTLY like me  )
"Shh, shhh," (Newbie smiles to himself)
Then, in walks this super tall (and hot) Russian woman with her youngin (also mixed). She starts speaking to me in Korean and we have about a 10 minute conversation. The ajummas continue (after picking their jaws off the floor):
"WHAT THE???"
"Are they speaking Korean?"
"No, no, no... English"
"Is that her mother, what's going on?"
"No, no, no. The kids are the same age"
"Brother, brother!"
"No. No. Friend, friends"
"Wait, wait, they're talking again? Is that Korean?"
"No, No. Foreigner"
"Why are they speaking Korean?"
"Huh. Wow. That is Korean"
"Waaaaaaa. He knows Korean. hahahahaha. I'm so embarrassed."
Needless to say, the hot Russian mommy and this hot Canadian daddy were quite amused. |
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KAMAKAZI
Joined: 14 Mar 2008
Location: Jamshil
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| Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2008 11:07 pm Post subject: |
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| pics of this "hot" mommy ??? |
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jcan
Joined: 08 Oct 2006
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| Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2008 11:07 pm Post subject: |
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"Are they speaking Korean"
nice  |
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Typhoon
Joined: 29 May 2007
Location: Daejeon
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| Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2008 11:26 pm Post subject: |
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| Being with my kid in public is always a laugh...Korean just don't know what to think. Anytime I am in bad mood we head out so I can laugh at the foolishness that occurs when I am with my daughter. My daughter is now at the age where she is starting to find the stupidness annoying, but I am trying to teach her to just enjoy the locals and they way the act. I think she prefers being with her mother in public so just gets a little more normal. |
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Sadebugo1
Joined: 11 May 2003
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| Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2008 2:52 am Post subject: |
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This thread reminds me of what happened to me in '96. I was invited to Everland by a Korean man and his Korean-American wife. They had two young children and one of the children grabbed my hand as we were walking. The Koreans who saw the Korean child holding the waegook's hand kept tripping over themselves. It was hilarious!
Sadebugo
http://travldawrld.blogspot.com/ |
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potin14p
Joined: 04 May 2006
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| Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2008 5:59 pm Post subject: |
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| same here. I walked down the road to my local mart, which is run by an elderly couple. Their grandson was visiting them, and I went to go and say hello, and ended up holding the wee baby. This extraordinary vision: white female holding a Korean baby, caused many passersby to go all bug-eyed and nearly trip over. pretty funny for me too! |
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billybrobby
Joined: 09 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2008 6:44 pm Post subject: |
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| Wow, that's super great! It's totally like you're a rock star in Korea! |
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cazzy3
Joined: 07 May 2008
Location: kangwon-do
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| Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2008 6:49 pm Post subject: |
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i love how they assume that the child is "korean" first and can't fathom the idea that the father is actually just that!!
just be careful that your wife doesn't get jealous of your 'hot' russian friend!!!! |
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Starla
Joined: 06 Jun 2008
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2008 7:06 pm Post subject: Re: Ten Super-Confused Ajumas |
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| Newbie wrote: |
"Wait, wait, they're talking again? Is that Korean?"
"No, No. Foreigner"
"Why are they speaking Korean?"
"Huh. Wow. That is Korean"
"Waaaaaaa. He knows Korean. hahahahaha. I'm so embarrassed."
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Cute. I love old ladies and their meddling, gossiping ways. |
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daemyann
Joined: 09 Nov 2007
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| Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2008 9:10 pm Post subject: Re: Ten Super-Confused Ajumas |
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| Newbie wrote: |
| Picture this |
Done and done. Enjoyable story;)
How did you acquire fluency? |
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jajdude
Joined: 18 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2008 9:24 pm Post subject: |
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| It's always great when they find out you know some language after they said things they would not have said had they known. A few times when people found out I could understand a lot of they were saying they said, "Well, I better be careful now." Amusing. When they figure you do not understand they think it's OK to say anything, nasty or otherwise. Happens all over the world I guess. Can't say I'm entirely innocent of doing the same thing occasionally. |
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Newbie
Joined: 07 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2008 11:30 pm Post subject: Re: Ten Super-Confused Ajumas |
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| daemyann wrote: |
| Newbie wrote: |
| Picture this |
Done and done. Enjoyable story;)
How did you acquire fluency? |
Much to the shagrin of my father in law, fluency has not been acquired.... You'll notice what I translated from the ajumas was all pretty short and simple stuff.
My conversation with the Russian was just the basic, intro. stuff: How old is your kid, where do you live, how long have you been here, what do you do, do you like it here, when are you leaving etc. etc.
Wow. I just used the word "shagrin". I really am turning into my mom.
| billybrobby wrote: |
| Wow, that's super great! It's totally like you're a rock star in Korea! |
Why you always gotta make me cry? |
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Rum Jungle
Joined: 18 Nov 2005
Location: North Asia
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| Posted: Sat Sep 13, 2008 8:13 am Post subject: |
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| billybrobby wrote: |
| Wow, that's super great! It's totally like you're a rock star in Korea! |
Yeah gyopo, that's super great!
To sneer at parents in Korea. |
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bogey666
Joined: 17 Mar 2008
Location: Korea, the ass free zone
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| Posted: Sat Sep 13, 2008 8:45 am Post subject: Re: Ten Super-Confused Ajumas |
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| Newbie wrote: |
| daemyann wrote: |
| Newbie wrote: |
| Picture this |
Done and done. Enjoyable story;)
How did you acquire fluency? |
Much to the shagrin of my father in law, fluency has not been acquired.... You'll notice what I translated from the ajumas was all pretty short and simple stuff.
My conversation with the Russian was just the basic, intro. stuff: How old is your kid, where do you live, how long have you been here, what do you do, do you like it here, when are you leaving etc. etc.
Wow. I just used the word "shagrin". I really am turning into my mom.
| billybrobby wrote: |
| Wow, that's super great! It's totally like you're a rock star in Korea! |
Why you always gotta make me cry? |
I would have thought when you put "shagrin" in quotes, that would have been a good time to notice it should be "chagrin" 
but I liked the story. |
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Young FRANKenstein
Joined: 02 Oct 2006
Location: Castle Frankenstein (that's FRONKensteen)
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| Posted: Sat Sep 13, 2008 5:18 pm Post subject: |
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| jajdude wrote: |
| It's always great when they find out you know some language after they said things they would not have said had they known. A few times when people found out I could understand a lot of they were saying they said, "Well, I better be careful now." Amusing. When they figure you do not understand they think it's OK to say anything, nasty or otherwise. |
I like being able to understand when they think I don't. I still laugh at the time I was on the subway and two halabojis were saying how disgusting my pig hair was (ie. my hairy arms). The look on their face when, in Korean, I told them it was monkey hair, not pig hair... priceless. |
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