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legalquestions
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 Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2008 4:03 pm Post subject: explain Koreans behavior abroad |
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Why have Koreans travelling/living abroad been consistently described (to me anyway) as "arrogant, spoiled, rude, loud, drunkards", etc.? This is a serious inquiry.
What is it about their general make-up that causes them to earn such a reputation in other countries? |
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caniff
Joined: 03 Feb 2004
Location: All over the map
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| Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2008 4:07 pm Post subject: |
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| Depends on the destination. If they acted like that in Boston it'd go over like a loud fart in church. |
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EzeWong
Joined: 26 Mar 2008
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2008 4:17 pm Post subject: |
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| caniff wrote: |
| Depends on the destination. If they acted like that in Boston it'd go over like a loud fart in church. |
Lmao,
Funny you say that, I'm from Boston and I've known 4 Korean FOBs in my highschool years.
They started out as humble quiet students and slowly mutated into loud obnoxious pervs or druggies...
We became friends for the later part.... hahaha
I've seen them start out as shy, but once they get accomadated they go back to the good old soju ways. |
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Gollywog
Joined: 14 Jun 2008
Location: Debussy's brain
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| Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2008 4:20 pm Post subject: |
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| Insecurity. |
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jlb
Joined: 18 Sep 2003
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| Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2008 4:21 pm Post subject: |
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| In my grad school...the male Koreans had the reputation as being the ones NOT to be partners with in group projects. The Chinese, Japanese, Southeast Asians...everyone else was all good. I think it was mostly due to the ajjoshi syndrome, in that the oldest male in the group automatically thought everyone should look up to, respect and bow down to his superior intellect. Like being a mere girl, who was younger, my ideas had no value whatsoever. |
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DrunkenMaster
Joined: 04 Feb 2008
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| Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2008 4:43 pm Post subject: |
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| The problem has never been Koreans. It's Korean men. |
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VanIslander
Joined: 18 Aug 2003
Location: Geoje, Hadong, Tongyeong,... now in a small coastal island town outside Gyeongsangnamdo!
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| Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2008 4:56 pm Post subject: |
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| DrunkenMaster wrote: |
| The problem has never been Koreans. It's Korean men. |
bingo!
when I was in a park in New Zealand I witnessed Korean men laughing and loudly spouting off at the Maori in one of the most arrogant displays of condescension I've ever seen
another time Korean guys appeared OBLIVIOUS to the fact that a speech was going on, talking loudly and not giving a *beep* about social graces
Koreans may be group oriented and not individualistic but they appear like selfish infdividuals and bad group members when they travel abroad because they carry their groups in their heads, act always as if at home, with no sense of cultural relativism or respect for diversity
I guess thousands of years of getting *beep* by outsiders invading their country has spurred their survival instinct, made them intolerant to giving up their ways, stubborn to hold onto their traditions, which is all fine and good at home but when travelling abroad not so good |
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caniff
Joined: 03 Feb 2004
Location: All over the map
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| Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2008 5:00 pm Post subject: |
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| EzeWong wrote: |
| caniff wrote: |
| Depends on the destination. If they acted like that in Boston it'd go over like a loud fart in church. |
Lmao,
Funny you say that, I'm from Boston and I've known 4 Korean FOBs in my highschool years.
They started out as humble quiet students and slowly mutated into loud obnoxious pervs or druggies...
We became friends for the later part.... hahaha
I've seen them start out as shy, but once they get accomadated they go back to the good old soju ways. |
I hear ya. I meant the tourist types. Once they are assimilated they are free to be as drunk, obnoxious and pervy as the rest of us, IMO. |
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jkelly80
Joined: 13 Jun 2007
Location: you boys like mexico?
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| Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2008 5:13 pm Post subject: |
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Confucius says so! "When I was 70, I did as I pleased, yet broke no law." Korean men all think they're 70 if not held in check by a de facto or de jure 형.
You see, you can't blame people for their behavior if it's based on a very old work of allegorical philosophy! It's cultural! |
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VanIslander
Joined: 18 Aug 2003
Location: Geoje, Hadong, Tongyeong,... now in a small coastal island town outside Gyeongsangnamdo!
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| Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2008 5:15 pm Post subject: |
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| jkelly80 wrote: |
| Confucius says so! "When I was 70, I did as I pleased, yet broke no law." Korean men all think they're 70 if not held in check by a de facto or de jure 형. |
Korean men statistically don't live to be 70.
The life expectancy of Korean men is 68.
So you are saying Korean men think they're dead if they're not being *beep*? |
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jkelly80
Joined: 13 Jun 2007
Location: you boys like mexico?
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| Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2008 5:18 pm Post subject: |
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| VanIslander wrote: |
| jkelly80 wrote: |
| Confucius says so! "When I was 70, I did as I pleased, yet broke no law." Korean men all think they're 70 if not held in check by a de facto or de jure 형. |
Korean men statistically don't live to be 70.
The life expectancy of Korean men is 68.
So you are saying Korean men think they're dead if they're not being *beep*? |
No, but I wish I had. |
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caniff
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| Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2008 5:19 pm Post subject: |
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Nice avatar, Jk.  It works on many levels here at Dave's. Or maybe just one.
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eamo
Joined: 08 Mar 2003
Location: Shepherd's Bush, 1964.
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| Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2008 5:20 pm Post subject: |
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| Korean men have 'little emperor' syndrome. They've been spoiled their whole lives by their mother, then their wife. No one ever challenges their behavior. |
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caniff
Joined: 03 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2008 5:22 pm Post subject: |
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| eamo wrote: |
| Korean men have 'little emperor' syndrome. They've been spoiled their whole lives by their mother, then their wife. No one ever challenges their behavior. |
I know, but that crap doesn't fly too far in some locales. See my post above. |
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VanIslander
Joined: 18 Aug 2003
Location: Geoje, Hadong, Tongyeong,... now in a small coastal island town outside Gyeongsangnamdo!
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| Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2008 5:26 pm Post subject: |
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| eamo wrote: |
| Korean men have 'little emperor' syndrome. They've been spoiled their whole lives by their mother, then their wife. No one ever challenges their behavior. |
I knew before I came in 2002 that there was what used to be termed around here as an IAMKING attitude of Korean men. I was prepared for it, but it still was startling and I had to  see it as funny to cope well enough. |
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