seoulteacher
Joined: 18 Nov 2005
Location: Seoul
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 Posted: Wed Feb 04, 2009 11:57 am Post subject: |
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| Paji eh Wong wrote: |
Shout out to the OGs on this thread.
Would now be a good time to mention the fact that, with the current exchange rates, I just got a substantial raise? And that does not take into account the lower cost of living or that my income is tax free.
Oh yes it would. |
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Hahahaha!
This thread is a real laugh with its descriptions, etc. of ajummas and other bits of Koreana. I will probably send it on to some I know who've not had the unique experience of visiting Korea, far less that of trying to exit an elevator or subway car in an orderly fashion.
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Just my li'l bit of Korea-related trivia:
a few summers ago, on holiday from ROK, I was looking out at Burrard Inlet (a narrow waterway) from a 3rd floor balcony in Vancouver. Now picture it: two women on the sidewalk below, one pushing a stroller - and one wearing one of those wide-brimmed visors ( http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v243/Doddie/Streetmarkets/JanghowonStreetMarket-46.jpg ).
Was it? Was it really what I was seeing?
So I shouted down, "Ajumma! Ajumma! Ajuma!", smiling and waving as I did so.
They looked up, but without missing a beat, without even one muscle twitching as if to give a hint that at least subconsciously she meant to smile or otherwise happily acknowledge another, they resumed looking forward, and they pressed on.
Eureka! I had got it right: that visor, that sequence of reactions (actually, non reactions) - an ajumma at large on foreign soil but, there are some constants in this life, still an ajumma, answerable only to herself... 
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"my income is tax free":
reary? How so?
Is the income of all foreigners in China exempt from such nefarious levies? I ask because...
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I, too, am shortly off to the Middle Kingdom. Funnily enough, I had some kimchi and rice today, you'd have had to be there to know its particular significance, and I thought, "I wonder if I'll be missing kimchi when I'm in China?"
Korea and its attributes, never mind its failings, they do tend to stick with you, don't they? A hard place to define, and a hard place to unreservedly shy away from; may the Koreans and Korea be bless'd.
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And what does your 'OG' mean? |
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