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[rfung]

I researched the topic here briefly using the search function, and I found some stereotypes that *seem* to validate my own limited experience. I'd love to just throw it out there and get confirmation directly by posting a thread on the subject.

So, I traveled to Seoul for 3 1/2 weeks. Just got home, but I do miss it to some degree. I'm Chinese american, tho I've been told that I could pass up as Korean as well. I'm not sure this is relevant. I'm over 30 (tho look maybe 2, which the first few days after being in Korea, and realizing age is such a big deal here, made me feel really depressed (being that I'm single and currently in between jobs, I just wanted to jump off a building).

In any case, after talking to Koreans and foreigners alike, I got the impression that:

- there's boatloads of attractive Korean women in Seoul. Maybe due to plastic surgery or whatnot, but I found them to be mostly skinnier than their western (american) counterparts, which gives them an automatic +1/+2 in my attraction scale.

- they're also incredibly self conscious of their image. During my stay, I saw them countlessly preening themselves and fixing up their hair or makeup, in the subway, on the way to the subway, anywhere there's a mirror. They also like to take self portraits a lot. I recall watching a commercial on Korean tv for a camera called the Vuu(?) which has an lcd screen on the same side as the lens for self portraits.

- they (and Korean people in general) seem to be quite 'boring' in what their activities are, being *generally* limited to eating, drinking, shopping, and hanging out by the boatload in coffee shops with their friends I have *never* seen so many groups of women hanging out in coffee shops as I have seen in Seoul.


Most importantly, as a guy:

- dating here seems ridiculously easy as a foreigner. I don't care if you're the pimp back home or a loser, it just seems that as a foreigner, you automatically come built in with a +1/+2 over whatever your game is back home. I've read on these forums that guys who couldn't get any back home have more girls they know what to do with.

I'm no slouch back home in San Francisco, and maybe since I was on vacations I didn't care, but in the 3 weeks I was there, I was texting 3-4 girls, and went hanging out with them, had them show me around, and even tried a love hotel with one. (just had to put that experience under my belt, like norae bangs, eating live squid and pocketball).

Now my question is: why is it so seemingly easy?

[greene]

i'd say the success rate is just about on par with at home for me

but if you think it was tilted in your favor, it's probably because you're waygookin and it makes you interesting
you're gone in 3 weeks so they can do you and keep it a secret and not feel like a s--t around their friends

it's a pretty simple equation...looks like you just felt like bragging. "did it to get the experience under my belt... like a norebang"

[benji1422]

[Old Gil]

Something to be said for that 'vacation mentality' too. It changes things for the better.

[rfung]

do you mean the fact that I was here only 3 1/2 weeks? as it seems that english teachers here for a year seem to generally have the same experience.

I've attributed it to the fact that in such a homogeneous culture, we automatically stand out. Here in SF there's so much diversity (and, oh, fat people...) that you have to stand out much more through other ways.

I do miss Seoul!!...

[DaeguKid]

look at the local competition...nuff said.

[rfung]

That's another interesting thing. I could find lots of eye candy to look at, but for the life of me, I couldn't figure out what a 'good looking korean guy' looks like. While talking to some korean girls, I was told that even them have difficulty finding attractive k-guys.

So, lots of cute to hot kgirls. Not enough attractive kguys. If you have an ounce of game and balls to go with it, seems like fishing in a barrel, which is what it felt to me, in my limited time there.

[crossmr]

[rfung]

[Xuanzang]

Another recently joinee who thinks he's got it figured out.

[eslpete]

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