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santafly
Joined: 20 Feb 2008
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 Posted: Thu Oct 23, 2008 2:58 am Post subject: was it you? |
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I was walking to my sauna in Insadong yesterday when I saw something rather odd:
An overweight middle-aged white man running down the middle of the street (Insadong-gil) wearing spandex shorts and 80's style sunglasses, no shirt. |
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dim_sum
Joined: 19 Oct 2008
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| Posted: Thu Oct 23, 2008 2:58 am Post subject: Re: was it you? |
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| santafly wrote: |
I was walking to my sauna in Insadong yesterday when I saw something rather odd:
An overweight middle-aged white man running down the middle of the street (Insadong-gil) wearing spandex shorts and 80's style sunglasses, no shirt. |
hahahahaahha |
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moosehead
Joined: 05 May 2007
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| Posted: Thu Oct 23, 2008 4:35 am Post subject: |
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you own a sauna?
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Join Me
Joined: 14 Jan 2008
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| Posted: Thu Oct 23, 2008 4:54 am Post subject: |
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| I really...really don't understand these guys. Occasionally I also see some out of shape white guy (no tan of course) running through some part of Seoul with no shirt on. I am in good shape but I would never consider running in Seoul without a shirt. It makes me cringe when I see these guys and I can only imagine what Koreans think. Have I just been in Korea too long? |
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blaseblasphemener
Joined: 01 Jun 2006
Location: There's a voice, keeps on calling me, down the road, that's where I'll always be
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| Posted: Thu Oct 23, 2008 5:02 am Post subject: |
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| Sounds like an Eastern-European diplomat to me. |
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Return Jones
Joined: 06 Feb 2004
Location: I will see you in far-off places
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| Posted: Thu Oct 23, 2008 5:06 am Post subject: Re: was it you? |
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| santafly wrote: |
I was walking to my sauna in Insadong yesterday when I saw something rather odd:
An overweight middle-aged white man running down the middle of the street (Insadong-gil) wearing spandex shorts and 80's style sunglasses, no shirt. |
I think I've seen that guy. He ran shirtless through Euljiro 1 ga station - across the Peruvian pan flute/homeless person stage and everything. Quite a sight. |
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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 23, 2008 5:07 am Post subject: |
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| ...I can only imagine what Koreans think. Have I just been in Korea too long? |
Yes.
I've been in this country nearly six years I don't give a *beep* what a korean stranger on the street thinks of me. That's a recipe for perpetual disappointment or illusionary community. We are not part of their society, we are guests, and as such there's no need nor payoff to adopting Korean values.
Back home men of all ages and sizes jog without a shirt on in the middle of the summer. If it's 28 C on an October afternoon I won't one of those being bothered by seeing fellow waygooks running dressed however they please.
This thread is on par with the one chitchatting about general price increases at the local costco 
get a life! |
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polonius
Joined: 05 Jun 2004
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| Posted: Thu Oct 23, 2008 6:05 am Post subject: |
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| This reminds me of a German guy that would ALWAYS show up at a bar wearing a "wife beater" ok, I know that isn't a great term for it, but sure enough, he was deported for beating on his wife, he pulled a knife on her. I would always mock him when he came in the bar in the middle of winter wearing a skin tight tank top. Sure he was built to some extent, but he was more of a knuckle dragger. |
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Join Me
Joined: 14 Jan 2008
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| Posted: Thu Oct 23, 2008 6:15 am Post subject: |
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| ...I can only imagine what Koreans think. Have I just been in Korea too long? |
Yes.
I've been in this country nearly six years I don't give a *beep* what a korean stranger on the street thinks of me. That's a recipe for perpetual disappointment or illusionary community. We are not part of their society, we are guests, and as such there's no need nor payoff to adopting Korean values.
Back home men of all ages and sizes jog without a shirt on in the middle of the summer. If it's 28 C on an October afternoon I won't one of those being bothered by seeing fellow waygooks running dressed however they please.
This thread is on par with the one chitchatting about general price increases at the local costco
get a life! |
You're one of these pasty (also usually hairy) guys who run around Seoul with no shirt on in tight running shorts and knee high socks aren't you? If you are doing it for the women let me clue you in, they are not impressed...repulsed yes...impressed not. Open your eyes and start looking at peoples' faces as you pass them. The look you see is terror...not lust.
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PeteJB
Joined: 06 Jul 2007
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| Posted: Thu Oct 23, 2008 6:23 am Post subject: |
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| You still consider yourself a guest after six years? Granted, you can never really "fit in" but that's a stretch to say the least. Surely anyone who isn't a tourist is a lot more than just a guest even if to Koreans we are just waegooks. |
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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 23, 2008 3:34 pm Post subject: |
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| Join Me wrote: |
| VanIslander wrote: |
| Join Me wrote: |
| ...I can only imagine what Koreans think. Have I just been in Korea too long? |
Yes.
I've been in this country nearly six years I don't give a *beep* what a korean stranger on the street thinks of me. That's a recipe for perpetual disappointment or illusionary community. We are not part of their society, we are guests, and as such there's no need nor payoff to adopting Korean values.
Back home men of all ages and sizes jog without a shirt on in the middle of the summer. If it's 28 C on an October afternoon I won't one of those being bothered by seeing fellow waygooks running dressed however they please.
This thread is on par with the one chitchatting about general price increases at the local costco
get a life! |
You're one of these pasty (also usually hairy) guys who run around Seoul with no shirt on in tight running shorts and knee high socks aren't you? If you are doing it for the women let me clue you in, they are not impressed...repulsed yes...impressed not. Open your eyes and start looking at peoples' faces as you pass them. The look you see is terror...not lust. |
Doing it for the women? I highly doubt the guy is running shirtless for anyone but himself!
It's absurd to worry about what strangers think in a city of 11,000,000+. Leave that to the Koreans to do. It's what prevents Seoul from being a truly cosmopolitan city. It's gotta be the most boring international city in the world. Caring what strangers think when you're jogging... bah... this thread indeed is for Korean, gyopo posters and small town minds. (dave's is goin' to pot)
I by the way live nowhere near Seoul and would never jog in that air pollution: it's actually unhealthy to do so. |
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santafly
Joined: 20 Feb 2008
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| Posted: Thu Oct 23, 2008 4:28 pm Post subject: |
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Coming from a small city in America that is notably more cosmopolitan/diverse than Seoul - If I had seen that guy running down a main tourist street at home he would have been almost as out of place, I imagine instead of adjummas staring the reaction would have been young people laughing.
This march, back in America, I was walking downtown when I saw a guy in a suit - my friends and I stopped to stare, thinking: where the hell did that guy come from/why is he wearing a suit? |
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xingyiman
Joined: 12 Jan 2006
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| Posted: Thu Oct 23, 2008 6:38 pm Post subject: |
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| I put some jean shorts on once and at least four ajumas glared at my hairy legs. Ain't no way I'm going shirtless. |
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yesnoyesyesno
Joined: 28 Jan 2006
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| Posted: Thu Oct 23, 2008 6:54 pm Post subject: |
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| good on him for doing something he enjoys, if you do like to do something and its not illegal or it doesn't hurt anyone, go ahead and do it, no matter what anyone says |
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