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Arrived to Korea, people here are very nice
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kentucker4



Joined: 03 Sep 2007
Location: Georgia

PostPosted: Tue Aug 11, 2009 12:46 pm    Post subject: Arrived to Korea, people here are very nice Reply with quote

Just arrived the other day and walked about two miles to a market. The owner of the market offered to give me a ride back because I had like seven bags of groceries. Well, we started driving, and I completly forgot wherte exactly I lived as it was my first stroll around. Wew drover around the same small area for about 40 minutes looking for my apartment. He didn't even get frustrated and refused to leave until I found it. Also refused a tip. This would NEVER happen back in the states with a total stranger. Maybe I still have the rose colored glasses, but IMO Koreans are actually very sweet people in general if you just get past their rush rush mindsets. Same thing about my in laws. They are some of the nicest people you could meet, but are always in a hurry.
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Forward Observer



Joined: 13 Jan 2009
Location: FOB Gloria

PostPosted: Tue Aug 11, 2009 12:55 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Let us know if bigfoot knocks on your door, aliens land on your rooftop, or the cops bust in your windows. Wink

Missed you kentucker, been boring here since you left!
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madoka



Joined: 27 Mar 2008

PostPosted: Tue Aug 11, 2009 1:02 pm    Post subject: Re: Arrived to Korea, people here are very nice Reply with quote

kentucker4 wrote:
Same thing about my in laws. They are some of the nicest people you could meet


Yes, I too have found that Korean mob bosses are some of the nicest people around. You know, once you get past the aluminum bats, knives, and lead pipes.

Nice to have you back Kentucker.
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shinramyun



Joined: 31 Jul 2009

PostPosted: Tue Aug 11, 2009 1:44 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

And here comes the esl teachers who will say crap about korean people.

In 3, 2, 1...
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Savant



Joined: 25 May 2007

PostPosted: Tue Aug 11, 2009 2:18 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The Adventures begin again in Kentucker Part II: Return to Korea.
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galoshes



Joined: 30 Jul 2009

PostPosted: Tue Aug 11, 2009 2:46 pm    Post subject: Re: Arrived to Korea, people here are very nice Reply with quote

[quote="madoka"]
kentucker4 wrote:
Same thing about my in laws. They are some of the nicest people you could meet


Yes, I too have found that Korean mob bosses are some of the nicest people around. You know, once you get past the aluminum bats, knives, and lead pipes.

Yeah,and I'm sure foreign ESL teachers are some of the nicest people around -- once you get past their knee-jerk anti-Koreanism.
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GreenlightmeansGO



Joined: 11 Dec 2006
Location: Daegu

PostPosted: Tue Aug 11, 2009 3:23 pm    Post subject: Re: Arrived to Korea, people here are very nice Reply with quote

@Galoshes -

You didn't understand the reference. Search through Kentucker's post history.
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kentucker4



Joined: 03 Sep 2007
Location: Georgia

PostPosted: Tue Aug 11, 2009 4:44 pm    Post subject: Re: Arrived to Korea, people here are very nice Reply with quote

madoka wrote:
kentucker4 wrote:
Same thing about my in laws. They are some of the nicest people you could meet


Yes, I too have found that Korean mob bosses are some of the nicest people around. You know, once you get past the aluminum bats, knives, and lead pipes.

Nice to have you back Kentucker.


My wife doesn't speak to her dad anymore and I have never met him. I am talking about her mother and sister, and her mother's boyfriend who lives in LA.

Anyways, thanks for the welcome. I bought some big jugs of Soju yesterday and plan on exploring my neighbor hood. Anyone know the best bars in Ulsan? Any dance places or clubs?

I have noticed the prices of stuff have gone up a little since I left. The market I was at was a real ripoff place.
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Perceptioncheck



Joined: 13 Oct 2008

PostPosted: Tue Aug 11, 2009 4:51 pm    Post subject: Re: Arrived to Korea, people here are very nice Reply with quote

kentucker4 wrote:
madoka wrote:
kentucker4 wrote:
Same thing about my in laws. They are some of the nicest people you could meet


Yes, I too have found that Korean mob bosses are some of the nicest people around. You know, once you get past the aluminum bats, knives, and lead pipes.

Nice to have you back Kentucker.


My wife doesn't speak to her dad anymore and I have never met him. I am talking about her mother and sister, and her mother's boyfriend who lives in LA.

Anyways, thanks for the welcome. I bought some big jugs of Soju yesterday and plan on exploring my neighbor hood. Anyone know the best bars in Ulsan? Any dance places or clubs?

I have noticed the prices of stuff have gone up a little since I left. The market I was at was a real ripoff place.


So what happened to your plan to work in Thailand with $600 to your name?
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kentucker4



Joined: 03 Sep 2007
Location: Georgia

PostPosted: Tue Aug 11, 2009 5:26 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Decided to pay off my student loand before it's interest grew to where it would be a major undertaking to pay off. I feel like I made a much better choice than going to Thailand in such a crappy financial situation.
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DWAEJIMORIGUKBAP



Joined: 28 May 2009
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PostPosted: Tue Aug 11, 2009 5:38 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Happens a lot sure.

Just to add some juxtaposition. Was out wihta friend sun eve. A random Korean guy who had lived in the states for a couple of years joined us. his conversation consited of interrupting our conversations rudely and with no effort of social politeness to tell us about the foriegn countries he'd travelled in and how terrible they were. According to him (and these outbursts were delivered at random regardless of whether or not my friend and I were deep in a converstaion or not already...) -

1. Paris is covered in sh*t, the Champs D'lyses (sp) is 'small and dirty' and the Louvre 'is small, boring and everything is taken from another country.

2. Swiss people eat only fondue everyday which is greasy and ''smells like p*ssy. and costs around the eqvt of 80,000 Won...'

3. British people eat cow *beep* which cost about twenty pounds and come served cold (I'm a brit and have no idea what he is talking about, yet he insisted that we do...)

4. The people in Versailles live like cavemen and they don't have toilets. They all deffacate on the floor in the streets and that is why high heels were invented there so that they can avoid most of the turds that are all over the ground. they also never wash or bathe and are always dirty...

And this guy is a proffessor of astrophysics apparantly at Seoul Uni and studied under Carl Sagan in the US... Shocked
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galoshes



Joined: 30 Jul 2009

PostPosted: Tue Aug 11, 2009 6:00 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

[quote="DWAEJIMORIGUKBAP"]Happens a lot sure.

I don't know about the rest, but #4 may be at least partly based in fact. I remember it was my high school French teacher Mr. Beckman, bless his dear memory, who informed us Versailles was originally built without much regard for that aspect of life, and that is why all those beautiful chamberpots were produced at that time. So beautiful, in fact, that some of them are used today as soup tureens.
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ppcg4



Joined: 16 Oct 2008

PostPosted: Tue Aug 11, 2009 7:00 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Wait till you encounter the farting adjummas on the subways, and the ajoshis that push and shove you to get on or off the subway.

I hope those glasses stay as sparkling as Korea.
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red_devil



Joined: 30 Jun 2008
Location: Korea

PostPosted: Tue Aug 11, 2009 8:17 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

DWAEJIMORIGUKBAP wrote:
Happens a lot sure.

Just to add some juxtaposition. Was out wihta friend sun eve. A random Korean guy who had lived in the states for a couple of years joined us.

And this guy is a proffessor of astrophysics apparantly at Seoul Uni and studied under Carl Sagan in the US... Shocked


So what's the point of your post? Some guy Korean or not is hating on other countries and talking shit...big deal, guess you haven't lived in LA.

Also Carl Sagan died in 1996 so unless "a couple of years" means 13 years...he's lying through his teeth.
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DWAEJIMORIGUKBAP



Joined: 28 May 2009
Location: Electron cloud

PostPosted: Tue Aug 11, 2009 8:30 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

red_devil wrote:
DWAEJIMORIGUKBAP wrote:
Happens a lot sure.

Just to add some juxtaposition. Was out wihta friend sun eve. A random Korean guy who had lived in the states for a couple of years joined us.

And this guy is a proffessor of astrophysics apparantly at Seoul Uni and studied under Carl Sagan in the US... Shocked


So what's the point of your post? Some guy Korean or not is hating on other countries and talking shit...big deal, guess you haven't lived in LA.

Also Carl Sagan died in 1996 so unless "a couple of years" means 13 years...he's lying through his teeth.


He was old enough to have been there in the early ninetees.

Anyway my point is the guy was a d*ck.

I'd like to visit La.
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