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CA-NA-DA-ABC
Joined: 20 Jun 2006
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 Posted: Wed Jul 15, 2009 11:58 pm Post subject: What's with Koreans and their extreme resistance to heat? |
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Nowadays I purposely give a 10 second stare when I see a Korean walk by wearing a full suit. In THIS weather?! Meanwhile I'm clad in a shorts with sandals and still sweating like a dog!
How tha hell do they do it?? |
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eamo
Joined: 08 Mar 2003
Location: Shepherd's Bush, 1964.
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| Posted: Thu Jul 16, 2009 12:22 am Post subject: |
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Well, as you well know, now that it's the rainy season, it's 'very cool'.
I swear I think the bus driver had the heating turned on during the heavy rain on Tuesday.
Koreans and temperature perception.........we'll never get it. |
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Smee
Joined: 24 Dec 2004
Location: Jeollanam-do
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| Posted: Thu Jul 16, 2009 12:50 am Post subject: |
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| They jack the heater up full blast in winter, turn the AC full blast in summer, and constantly comment on the weather at all other times. When they say "Korea has four seasons" I think it's more a cry for help than a boast. |
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Forward Observer
Joined: 13 Jan 2009
Location: FOB Gloria
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| Posted: Thu Jul 16, 2009 1:02 am Post subject: |
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| My wife and I are constantly at odds about the A/C in summer. I want to turn it on, she doesn't even notice the swealtering heat. |
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SHANE02
Joined: 04 Jun 2003
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| Posted: Thu Jul 16, 2009 1:10 am Post subject: |
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| Well Koreans have been living in these conditions for a damn long time. It's obvious really. Same in Thailand around xmas with the locals wearing jeans. |
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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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How do they manage to whine, whine, whine about the "cold" everytime the temperature goes down three or four degrees? Like when my classroom is 23 C and they say they're cold.  |
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Horangi Munshin
Joined: 06 Apr 2003
Location: Busan
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| Posted: Thu Jul 16, 2009 2:03 am Post subject: |
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| My wife and sister in-law will turn the a/c on before me these days! |
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crossmr
Joined: 22 Nov 2008
Location: Hwayangdong, Seoul
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| Posted: Thu Jul 16, 2009 2:06 am Post subject: |
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you notice that most of foreigners who are from cooler climates are sweating buckets, they're not.
wait another month until you see the suited ones actually breaking a sweat, then you can wonder. |
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Julius
Joined: 27 Jul 2006
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| Posted: Thu Jul 16, 2009 2:20 am Post subject: Re: What's with Koreans and their extreme resistance to heat |
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| CA-NA-DA-ABC wrote: |
Nowadays I purposely give a 10 second stare when I see a Korean walk by wearing a full suit. In THIS weather?! Meanwhile I'm clad in a shorts with sandals and still sweating like a dog!
How tha hell do they do it?? |
They put social status and appearances before practicality and common sense? |
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Mr. Pink
Joined: 21 Oct 2003
Location: China
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| Posted: Thu Jul 16, 2009 2:31 am Post subject: |
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| You would be surprised what you can get used to. Last night outside with the wind, I felt a little cool. Today though, I had to turn the air conditioner on...it is pretty hot and I am tired of feeling sticky and sweaty all day. |
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Privateer
Joined: 31 Aug 2005
Location: Easy Street.
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| Posted: Thu Jul 16, 2009 2:49 am Post subject: |
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| I think white people in general sweat more. And, you know, when you grow up in a certain climate, you tend to be pretty comfortable in it...(wish there was a less offensive emoticon than the rolly-eyes one!). |
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Katchafire
Joined: 31 Mar 2006
Location: Non curo. Si metrum non habet, non est poema
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| Posted: Thu Jul 16, 2009 3:51 am Post subject: |
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| Smee wrote: |
| They jack the heater up full blast in winter, turn the AC full blast in summer, and constantly comment on the weather at all other times. When they say "Korea has four seasons" I think it's more a cry for help than a boast. |
Yet they open all the windows in both. |
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sakamuras
Joined: 21 Jun 2003
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| Posted: Thu Jul 16, 2009 3:58 am Post subject: Re: What's with Koreans and their extreme resistance to heat |
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| CA-NA-DA-ABC wrote: |
Nowadays I purposely give a 10 second stare when I see a Korean walk by wearing a full suit. In THIS weather?! Meanwhile I'm clad in a shorts with sandals and still sweating like a dog!
How tha hell do they do it?? |
Some professions require a suit. Yes, even in "THIS weather". Go to Hong Kong and Singapore, where it's a sweat box, and you will see people wearing suits. Heck, even in New York during the hottest and humid days you will see people wearing suits. Not everyone is an unprofessional English teacher in Korea. |
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ryoga013
Joined: 23 Nov 2008
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| Posted: Thu Jul 16, 2009 4:08 am Post subject: |
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| eamo wrote: |
| Koreans and temperature perception.........we'll never get it. |
Seconded. You can never please a class of 10 students. There will always be the one that will say that it's still too cold or too hot or too whatever. Just make sure you try to stay conformable and damn the rest |
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crossmr
Joined: 22 Nov 2008
Location: Hwayangdong, Seoul
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| Posted: Thu Jul 16, 2009 4:44 am Post subject: |
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| Privateer wrote: |
| I think white people in general sweat more. And, you know, when you grow up in a certain climate, you tend to be pretty comfortable in it...(wish there was a less offensive emoticon than the rolly-eyes one!). |
we tend to be far hairier.. |
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