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

So, my girlfriend just told me a funny story. She went to go eat dinner with her parents and their closest friends, both of whom's daughters are going out with a foreigner (Me, and the other girl is going out with an Englishman in Japan). As they were talking about it, my girlfriend's father kept drinking more and more, and his stomach was getting worse and worse, to the point where he couldn't walk. They had to leave the restaurant as soon as possible. At which point, he took an Alka-Seltzer and felt much better, and my gf just asked me to buy her more Alka-seltzers while i'm in the states for her dad :\

wtf.

steveohan · Joined: 24 Apr 2005 Location: Seoul, South Korea

umm...who cares?

okokokok · Joined: 16 Jul 2009

^ I was thinking the same thing. But the kid will be in Suwon in 6 days. Yippeee!

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

haha, the point is, this man is putting too much pressure on my gf. I don't understand why they would go ape [mod edit] crazy because his daughter is going out with a foreigner, and we are in a very serious relationship, I can't imagine if we actually get to the point when we want to marry. Would he jump off a building?

jamesteacho · Posted: Sat Jul 25, 2009 11:10 am Post subject:

^ Don't worry that won't happen if you're refering him to an ape, making fun of him that way.

what a respectful ways to refer your "serious" relationship.

peppermint · Posted: Sat Jul 25, 2009 2:48 pm Post subject:

first off, what would be considered excessive drinking in North America is fairly commonplace in Korea, it's just a cultural thing.

As for the worry about her dating a foreigner- that's normal parental stuff too I think. The chances of him losing a daughter, rather than gaining a son increase substantially if the potential son in law is from a foreign country and doesn't speak the same language. My own father, who has never once given me reason to think of him as a racist told me, "Please don't get married and stay over there", when I was about to leave for Korea.