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Privateer
Joined: 31 Aug 2005
Location: Easy Street.
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 Posted: Fri Oct 16, 2009 10:18 am Post subject: Remember when...? |
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I was thinking certain used-to-be-generic ex-pat complaints of yore have been crossed off the list. For instance, remember when...
...you couldn't get real coffee anywhere? No Starbucks equivalents, only overpriced coffee shops with sickly sweet instant coffee concoctions?
...if you bought Italian food in a restaurant, you'd get watery pasta that even someone with the worst possible cooking skills would be ashamed to produce at home?
...there was no blue sky in Korea? It was grey skies, grey skies, day after day?
...even in Seoul, people would stare and giggle at you?
...even in Seoul, people would give your Korean gf dirty looks just for holding hands with you or being with you?
...people would stand on both lanes of the escalators, oblivious to those who might want to move up or down a little faster?
...rolls of toilet paper were almost always used in restaurants in lieu of tissue paper napkins?
...mini-skirts were unheard of?
...women had to hide in an unfrequented corner of the stairs if they wanted to smoke?
Things have certainly come a long way. Any more to add to the list? |
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giraffe
Joined: 07 Apr 2009
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| Posted: Fri Oct 16, 2009 10:28 am Post subject: Re: Remember when...? |
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| Privateer wrote: |
...there was no blue sky in Korea? It was grey skies, grey skies, day after day?
...even in Seoul, people would stare and giggle at you?
...even in Seoul, people would give your Korean gf dirty looks just for holding hands with you or being with you?
...people would stand on both lanes of the escalators, oblivious to those who might want to move up or down a little faster?
...rolls of toilet paper were almost always used in restaurants in lieu of tissue paper napkins?
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Id take these off your list in my books. I still experience these quite often .... |
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T-J
Joined: 10 Oct 2008
Location: Seoul EunpyungGu Yeonsinnae
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| Posted: Fri Oct 16, 2009 3:35 pm Post subject: |
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| Remember when...Summer meant student protests with tear gas. It just isn't a Korean summer without the tear gas. |
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saw6436
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: Daejeon, ROK
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| Posted: Fri Oct 16, 2009 5:45 pm Post subject: |
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| Memories! I kind of miss the tear gas. |
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Goon-Yang
Joined: 28 May 2009
Location: Duh
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| Posted: Fri Oct 16, 2009 6:45 pm Post subject: |
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| ...Koreans lit themselves on fire in protest. I miss the smell of napalm in the morning. |
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youtuber
Joined: 13 Sep 2009
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| Posted: Fri Oct 16, 2009 7:47 pm Post subject: Re: Remember when...? |
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| Privateer wrote: |
...even in Seoul, people would stare and giggle at you?
...even in Seoul, people would give your Korean gf dirty looks just for holding hands with you or being with you?
...people would stand on both lanes of the escalators, oblivious to those who might want to move up or down a little faster?
...women had to hide in an unfrequented corner of the stairs if they wanted to smoke?
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All of these still happen on a frequent basis. |
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Xuanzang
Joined: 10 Apr 2007
Location: Sadang
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| Posted: Fri Oct 16, 2009 7:55 pm Post subject: Re: Remember when...? |
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| Privateer wrote: |
I was thinking certain used-to-be-generic ex-pat complaints of yore have been crossed off the list. For instance, remember when...
...rolls of toilet paper were almost always used in restaurants in lieu of tissue paper napkins?
Things have certainly come a long way. Any more to add to the list? |
It`s just toliet paper in a box now. |
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djsmnc
Joined: 20 Jan 2003
Location: Dave's ESL Cafe
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| Posted: Fri Oct 16, 2009 8:47 pm Post subject: Re: Remember when...? |
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| Privateer wrote: |
...women had to hide in an unfrequented corner of the stairs if they wanted to smoke?
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YES! I feel like I should let out a soju-driven tirade of "Yah~"s and "18"s while wearing a shiny suit and necktie every time I walk into a coffee shop because of where this has gone. |
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Privateer
Joined: 31 Aug 2005
Location: Easy Street.
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| Posted: Sat Oct 17, 2009 1:22 am Post subject: Re: Remember when...? |
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| Privateer wrote: |
...even in Seoul, people would stare and giggle at you?
...even in Seoul, people would give your Korean gf dirty looks just for holding hands with you or being with you?
...people would stand on both lanes of the escalators, oblivious to those who might want to move up or down a little faster?
...women had to hide in an unfrequented corner of the stairs if they wanted to smoke?
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All of these still happen on a frequent basis. |
Not to me they don't. |
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T-J
Joined: 10 Oct 2008
Location: Seoul EunpyungGu Yeonsinnae
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| Posted: Sat Oct 17, 2009 2:41 am Post subject: Re: Remember when...? |
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| Privateer wrote: |
| youtuber wrote: |
| Privateer wrote: |
...even in Seoul, people would stare and giggle at you?
...even in Seoul, people would give your Korean gf dirty looks just for holding hands with you or being with you?
...people would stand on both lanes of the escalators, oblivious to those who might want to move up or down a little faster?
...women had to hide in an unfrequented corner of the stairs if they wanted to smoke?
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All of these still happen on a frequent basis. |
Not to me they don't. |
Different base of reference... |
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T-J
Joined: 10 Oct 2008
Location: Seoul EunpyungGu Yeonsinnae
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| Posted: Sat Oct 17, 2009 2:42 am Post subject: Re: Remember when...? |
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| djsmnc wrote: |
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...women had to hide in an unfrequented corner of the stairs if they wanted to smoke?
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YES! I feel like I should let out a soju-driven tirade of "Yah~"s and "18"s while wearing a shiny suit and necktie every time I walk into a coffee shop because of where this has gone. |
Why? Girls always smoked in coffee shops. |
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djsmnc
Joined: 20 Jan 2003
Location: Dave's ESL Cafe
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| Posted: Sat Oct 17, 2009 4:21 am Post subject: Re: Remember when...? |
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| T-J wrote: |
| djsmnc wrote: |
| Privateer wrote: |
...women had to hide in an unfrequented corner of the stairs if they wanted to smoke?
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YES! I feel like I should let out a soju-driven tirade of "Yah~"s and "18"s while wearing a shiny suit and necktie every time I walk into a coffee shop because of where this has gone. |
Why? Girls always smoked in coffee shops. |
Yeah, I suppose they might have. I didn't start going to coffee shops here until this year.
Well, on the street too, then. |
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weatherman
Joined: 14 Jan 2003
Location: Korea
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| Posted: Sat Oct 17, 2009 5:40 am Post subject: |
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| In 1996 I remember the tear gas, but I also remember seeing a good number of mini skirts too. |
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the_beaver
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Sat Oct 17, 2009 5:51 am Post subject: |
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| weatherman wrote: |
| In 1996 I remember the tear gas, but I also remember seeing a good number of mini skirts too. |
The summer of '96. Miniskirts and knee high boots... |
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fermentation
Joined: 22 Jun 2009
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| Posted: Sat Oct 17, 2009 5:56 pm Post subject: |
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| There's a new city project to stop people from standing on one side of the escalator so others can walk up. Apparently its dangerous. I saw an ad depicting a person tripping while walking up the escalator with infomerical-esque agility. So I can't really blame people for standing on both sides though a part of me believes many are just being rude assholes. |
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