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Geckoman
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 Posted: Thu Nov 12, 2009 7:13 pm Post subject: YouTube: Culture Shock in Korea |
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Check out this entertaining YouTube clip about culture shock in Korea:
Foreigner vs Korean
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYB47ulGmJw
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Geckoman
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| Posted: Fri Nov 13, 2009 3:15 am Post subject: |
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curiousaboutkorea
Joined: 21 Jan 2009
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| Posted: Fri Nov 13, 2009 3:28 am Post subject: |
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Inaccurate. In the video they show the foreign couple going to a HO Bar and being told that one does not pay in advance.
I went to HO Bar II in Jongro and was told that I must pay in advance since I'm a foreigner (Koreans, of course, could pay after).  |
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Smee
Joined: 24 Dec 2004
Location: Jeollanam-do
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| Posted: Fri Nov 13, 2009 7:06 am Post subject: |
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A lot more commentary on that here:
http://briandeutsch.blogspot.com/2009/11/if-only-there-were-dialogue-they-could.html
since that site brought the video up.
Like pretty much everyone else says . . . Korea is struggling to market itself to tourists, and THIS is how it decides to promote itself? By making the country seem like a place where you're simply bound to screw up?
And big ups to the people who continue to play buffoonish white people. Because foreigners---all six billion of them---just can't help walking indoors with shoes on. |
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English Matt
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| Posted: Fri Nov 13, 2009 7:32 am Post subject: |
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A lot more commentary on that here:
http://briandeutsch.blogspot.com/2009/11/if-only-there-were-dialogue-they-could.html
since that site brought the video up.
Like pretty much everyone else says . . . Korea is struggling to market itself to tourists, and THIS is how it decides to promote itself? By making the country seem like a place where you're simply bound to screw up?
And big ups to the people who continue to play buffoonish white people. Because foreigners---all six billion of them---just can't help walking indoors with shoes on. |
Man, no wonder we get treated like little babies wherever we go.....Koreans really must think we are retarded if this video is representative of the sort of media that guides their perceptions of non-Koreans. |
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juicyhumdinger
Joined: 03 Jan 2005
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| Posted: Fri Nov 13, 2009 8:57 am Post subject: |
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| wow. Koreans are so cool and expats are retards. I never knew that. |
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eamo
Joined: 08 Mar 2003
Location: Shepherd's Bush, 1964.
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| Posted: Fri Nov 13, 2009 3:04 pm Post subject: |
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This video might be a bit useful to the 'fresh-off-the-boat-and-did-absolutely-no-research-about-Korea-or-even-Asia' kind of teacher.......but it's of no use to anyone else.
Yeah, as said above, it could actually feed the Korean mis-conception that foreigners are clueless idiots and we should guide them through every little step of Asian culture.
Oh, and make sure to treat them like kids in restaurants by putting forks on the table. |
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The Gipkik
Joined: 30 Mar 2009
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| Posted: Fri Nov 13, 2009 3:21 pm Post subject: |
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This video might be a bit useful to the 'fresh-off-the-boat-and-did-absolutely-no-research-about-Korea-or-even-Asia' kind of teacher.......but it's of no use to anyone else.
Yeah, as said above, it could actually feed the Korean mis-conception that foreigners are clueless idiots and we should guide them through every little step of Asian culture.
Oh, and make sure to treat them like kids in restaurants by putting forks on the table. |
I think it's the traditional residue Korea and Korean people have--when a country finally opens up to the world. Their belief is "how could they know about our customs and ways when so few Koreans and so little of Korean culture has made it across the borders? It must be incomprehensible."
That's changing, but I have met quite a few total newbs who didn't have a clue about how things were done here. And a big part of the problem was the desperate over the telephone interview and we'll take care of your flight and apartment mentality. This kind of urgency--and the usual 'we need you here immediately' kind of hiring process made famous by less than stellar hagwans, created this impression. The slower hiring process of public schools and universities will eventually throw this perception in the historical waste basket. |
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Smee
Joined: 24 Dec 2004
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That's true, Gipkik, some people are totally clueless.
But I don't really get the premise of the video. Koreans are excellent at . . . being Korean? Wow, awesome, I never would have imagined. |
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Bread
Joined: 09 Oct 2008
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The jjimjilbang part seems like some things that a clueless foreigner might do, but the samgyeopsal part was just offensive.
RAW MEAT????
There's a GRILL IN THE MIDDLE OF THE TABLE, didn't you notice??? |
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Captain Corea
Joined: 28 Feb 2005
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Fri Nov 13, 2009 7:00 pm Post subject: |
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| I'm so grateful to the Korean nation for teaching me how to use a sauna, a massage chair... and especially, for teaching me that handling raw meat with my chopsticks is OK. |
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The Gipkik
Joined: 30 Mar 2009
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| Posted: Fri Nov 13, 2009 7:00 pm Post subject: |
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| Smee wrote: |
That's true, Gipkik, some people are totally clueless.
But I don't really get the premise of the video. Koreans are excellent at . . . being Korean? Wow, awesome, I never would have imagined. |
Yeah, that purity of spirit, that essence of being that tells you that you're one of us not one of them. It's something a lot of the Asian countries I've lived in had in spades. Truly irritating. I'm still trying to figure out why Korea's love of following rules, rules that indicate you are part of the tribe, the fraternity, can't translate into following the rules of the road. Yes, I know anonymity is exempt in a country where being in the group is the most important thing in the world, but where are those blasted cops? |
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tiger fancini
Joined: 21 Mar 2006
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| Posted: Fri Nov 13, 2009 8:03 pm Post subject: |
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| Whoever made that video should be beaten with a love stick. |
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Old Gil
Joined: 26 Sep 2009
Location: Got out! olleh!
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| Posted: Fri Nov 13, 2009 9:55 pm Post subject: |
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| Why not eschew the word 'foreigner' here for 'foreign visitor' or visitor? It's just not the way to translate 외국인 (its true meaning being 'those lacking Korean blood'). |
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ajuma
Joined: 18 Feb 2003
Location: Anywere but Seoul!!
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| Posted: Sat Nov 14, 2009 9:47 am Post subject: |
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| eamo wrote: |
This video might be a bit useful to the 'fresh-off-the-boat-and-did-absolutely-no-research-about-Korea-or-even-Asia' kind of teacher.......but it's of no use to anyone else.
Yeah, as said above, it could actually feed the Korean mis-conception that foreigners are clueless idiots and we should guide them through every little step of Asian culture.
Oh, and make sure to treat them like kids in restaurants by putting forks on the table. |
I've been in Korea a long time, and accept (but not always agree with) Korean culture, but the one thing that REALLLY pisses me off is when someone says "Oh! You can use chopsticks very well!". Yeah, and you can use a FORK really well, too!!!  |
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