Korean Job Discussion Forums

[sarbonn]

I've been wondering about this since I've been here. I know there's a tendency for Koreans to either ignore you or give you bad looks, but for the most part that really hasn't been too much of the case, other than when older women see me looking at the younger women and give me the "look". But I expect that.

However, what has really been interesting me lately is that almost every time I see a western foreigner, I get that look of "YOU MUST DIE". I was in the coex mall today just kind of wandering around, and almost every western foreigner I came across gave me the look of death. One smiled, which was cool, but almost all acted as if the presence of another westerner was a direct assault upon their personal being.

Any thoughts on this?

[Easter Clark]

[carpetdope]

Maybe you represent the thing they are hiding from in their own country. You're bringing a dose of reality back into their lives. Look at what happened to the guy in "Lost Highway" when that happened. Went nuts.

[ciccone_youth]

I would never give a dirty look to another Westerner. I sometimes just smile or ignore, it depends.

[Return Jones]

There are a lot of dinks and pricks from back home over here in Korea. A lot of them are on this board.

[jkelly80]

White people love being the only white people in an 'ethnic' area.

[bobranger]

[Draz]

[PeteJB]

Maybe it's just you? Sometimes we look for things which aren't there. A grumpy face doesn't always mean the person wearing the grumpy face is actually grumpy, it could be their natural face or just your interpretation of it. Occasionally I see foreigners and rejoice that I'm not the only ethnic person around, don't see how anyone would be angry at that.

[Cornfed]

Maybe you look like something the cat dragged in.

[steroidmaximus]

I think Jkelly has the right idea

[bundangbabo]

A lot of complete tossers in this country - Korean and expat -

[plynx]

i find it really odd that "foreigners" here in korea are offended by others not waltzing right up and shaking their hands. granted, you only wonder why people are scowling at you, but you obviously stared at them long enough to receive said facial expression (searching for...?).

wondering why they aren't more friendly is like me wondering why the russian hookers aren't more hospitable towards me. just because we look the same, or are obviously "foreign," doesn't mean we have some sort of affinity.

sorry you've been getting bad looks. over-analysis is a bit paranoid, though.

[RACETRAITOR]

[IncognitoHFX]