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Manner of Speaking · Joined: 09 Jan 2003

There is an interesting discussion going on at other forums lately about some comments made recently on the Korean TV program "Misuda". You've probably seen it, it's the one where a bunch of western (primarily) women who speak Korean fairly well dress up in short skirts and sit on a platform while they answer questions.

Here's what they have to say about Western men who teach in Korea, and about Korean women who date Western guys:

optik404 · Joined: 24 Jun 2008

yeah this should go over well on Daves

Clockout · Joined: 23 Feb 2009

Eva sounds bitter that no white guys are interested in her.

The idea of her appointing herself as some arbiter of taste for her Korean friends is pretty hilarious, though.

Clockout · Joined: 23 Feb 2009

However, Sayuri does make a compelling case for teaching in Japan.

Emeliu · Joined: 31 Mar 2009 Location: Korea, i'm OMW

I'm sure there are a lot of westerners who are like that. I'm going to Korea because

1. I spent 6 months working my ass off convincing a Korean exchange student that I'm worth it,

2. My family is breaking up and I have no roots in America anymore, and

3. I love languages, I'm a linguist, I would love to speak Korean as fluently as the next person (and I have to in order to Convince my girlfriend's father to let us marry).

Goddamn stereotypes.

Tundra_Creature · Joined: 11 Jun 2009 Location: Canada

So basically, they just say what the guys here say about the girls back home. *Shrugs* Vicious circle.

Women say that the guys a bunch of losers who are creepy, unpopular and uneducated wankers.

Men say the women are overweight, can't dress properly and are crazy Nazifems.

... Maybe both parties should hook up. Have some sort of kinky hate-sexfest.

I'm no Picasso · Joined: 28 Oct 2008

Good God.

From the banter that gets tossed around, you'd think Western men and women in Korea were sworn enemies. Yet every time I'm out and about, running into other foreigners, everyone is playing nice.

Way to fill the airwaves with even more total rubbish.

CentralCali · Joined: 17 May 2007

So being married to a Korean man (or currently going through a divorce from a Korean man) qualifies someone as a sociologist? Who knew?

Captain Corea · Joined: 28 Feb 2005 Location: Seoul

optik404 · Joined: 24 Jun 2008

clearly BS though

a Foreigner with a GORGEOUS Korean girl????!!!

flakfizer · Posted: Wed Jul 08, 2009 6:50 am Post subject:

There's a reason why the show is called "chatting with the beauties" and not "chatting with the smarties."

Scamps · Joined: 01 Feb 2008

I think it goes both ways. There are some foreign guys who foreign women wouldn't find attractive but Korean women do. Not all of the Korean girl dating foreign men are close to being beauty queens themselves and maybe to Korean guys they're downright ugly but to foreign guys they're attractive.
From what I've seen less-attractive foreign guys date less-attractive Korean girls.
Most army guys don't even get Korean girls. I usually see them with Filipinas.
On that show, Chatting with Beauties, the girls are young, just chatting about nothing and have no knowledge about anything.
And about how it's just basic etiquette to learn a countries language well I agree with that and I usually follow that but in Korea it's really hard because everybody is pretty well educated and will just start speaking English to me, even if I try to speak Korean they'll just ignore it and keep speaking English so I kind of gave up trying to learn!

pie eater · Joined: 07 Jul 2009 Location: The Bando

Is Eva the ex GEPIK teacher whose mum was on the show a few weeks ago?

It would be fair and correct to point out that the caucasian contingent on 'chat with beauties' would never be on a show with the word 'beauty' in the title back home either.

It should be called 'chat with below average looking white women'

The worst offenders is the Canadian bird with the horse face (Dominique) and the South African who made a few quid out of the Cass adverts a couple of years ago - they just don't shut up! And they are bloody ugly!

SHANE02 · Joined: 04 Jun 2003

Those girls are only on TV because Korean men want to watch them. It's the same thing. They know it too. Plus the show is scripted.

Frankly Mr Shankly · Joined: 13 Feb 2008

Misuda exists so Korean blokes can all have a collective stiffie and believe that they are desirable to foreign women (well aside from Vietnamese peasants with mud between their toes and ringworm). Congrats, girls, but don't come running back when Pom-suk knocks the living [MOD EDIT] out of you for not cooking kimchijiggae like his mom did.