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peppermint
Joined: 13 May 2003
Location: traversing the minefields of caddishness.
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| osangrl wrote: |
Ive gotten:
Do you live in a hut?
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Do you have indoor plumbing?
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I get that when I tell people I'm from Newfoundland, along with "Where'd you learn English?"  |
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peppermint
Joined: 13 May 2003
Location: traversing the minefields of caddishness.
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| Posted: Sat Jan 03, 2004 5:39 am Post subject: |
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| ryleeys wrote: |
| I have a question... where does the derogatory term "gook" come from? Someone said that to me one time and I was like... "um, gook? That's Korean for country..." |
This might be an urban legend, but I heard that it had something to do with the first American soldiers being greeted by Koreans saying "migook?" and it being misheard as "me- gook". |
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Tiger Beer
Joined: 07 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Sat Jan 03, 2004 2:32 pm Post subject: |
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| peppermint wrote: |
| ryleeys wrote: |
| I have a question... where does the derogatory term "gook" come from? Someone said that to me one time and I was like... "um, gook? That's Korean for country..." |
This might be an urban legend, but I heard that it had something to do with the first American soldiers being greeted by Koreans saying "migook?" and it being misheard as "me- gook". |
Yeah, I heard the same 'story'. Don't know if its true. But heard it dates back to the American military during the Korean War. Everytime they approached local Koreans they would consistently and constantly say ''mi-gook, mi-gook" so therefore they just became 'gooks'. I'm sure its an urban legion, but it is kind of funny. |
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jaebea
Joined: 21 Sep 2003
Location: SYD
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North/South question gets me everytime.
I do get some questions about the crazy gaming habits of Koreans though.. like "Hey, isn't there where the guy DIED from playing too many games? Niiiice..."
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jae. |
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Ilsanman
Joined: 15 Aug 2003
Location: Bucheon, Korea
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People ask me 'How can you live there without speaking Chinese'? I just say 'Neither can anyone else. They speak Korean'.
Guk is the old chinese word for country. Nara is korean for country. A lot of words in Korean still use 'guk'
Yongguk (engliand)
Hanguk (korea)
Gukje (international) |
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Zed
Joined: 20 Jan 2003
Location: Shakedown Street
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| Posted: Sun Jan 04, 2004 5:57 pm Post subject: |
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| Before I first came to Korea I thought I'd like to have some Korean currency when I landed. I went to the bank and asked the foreign exchange manager if she could change my Canadian dollars into South Korean currency. - "No, we don't deal with communist currencies". |
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the_beaver
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
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| ryleeys wrote: |
| I have a question... where does the derogatory term "gook" come from? Someone said that to me one time and I was like... "um, gook? That's Korean for country..." |
That's a funny word. Etymologically it could be related to the "gook" of "hangook-in," but the word has been in use since before anybody knew anything about Korea. Some evidence suggests that it's an American derivation from the Phillipines and carried over. |
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