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[indramayu]

How many Korean people are quite emotional & passionate...just waiting to fly off the handle like a volcano? I just ran into one: my Korean brother-in-law. His attempts at using English profanity correctly was amusing but did bring home the point. Such shaking rage...I've seen it a few times and it really scares me.

Reasoning and logic just don't work! What to do in these situations?

Maybe I married into the wrong culture?

[Steve_Rogers2008]

let's here some of the English-ravaged profanity...


one time in Ansan, there was one of those protests against American beef exports, with the requisite candle-light vigil... (are they for the cows?)

"so i pulled in my camera to get a few shots... what do they have to be angry about if they're there legally?"


so just a few seconds after I did it, some middle-aged guy comes charging at me... so I made sure to get a picture of him and his tyraid, too.

[Mariella713]

[Caffeinated]

They seem to start early being emotional and passionate here. My elem students love to give each other the finger and tell each other to F--- off.

[DeMayonnaise]

It's the stupid "face" thing. You can't say anything to maybe make a person feel bad, so after a while things bottle up and you just explode. Back home we use sarcasm and backhanded compliments to keep you sane so shit doesn't happen. I had two teachers absolutely go after each other in the office. Not sure what they wre yelling about, but I caught a bunch of "michins" , "babos" and "mongchongis". Two ajuma teachers trying to one up each other. Ended with one smashing a coffee cup on the other's desk. I thought it was hilarious. You're middle school teachers...would could possibly be so upsetting at school that you have to burst out like that.

[Globutron]

[djsmnc]

[Steelrails]

I find it odd that one thread you'll see people gripe about Koreans being blunt when it comes to certain things and then you get another thread where people say they're all passive aggressive or discreet.

I think here or back home you had different things that people have to be discreet about and different things people can be blunt about.

Koreans should keep on being discreet about some things and loosen up about others. I would prefer more directness when it comes to problem-solving situations and such.

Conversely, back home maybe we shouldn't be so blunt about some things. Too often these days people will openly mock peoples belief systems in a really impolite manner. People are forgetting that at the dinner table you don't talk politics or religion.

[eamo]

Koreans have to outdo each other in rage-level and shouting volume when they're in an argument.

He who gets crazy the most will usually win the argument as others will appease him to make this horrible exhibition of emotion end.

[oldfatfarang]

[pkjh]

Koreans are very emotional, that's why they had a big war with each other.

[Draz]

[The Gipkik]

Emotional and passionate? That's true, but only in certain situations. In a way they're like the Greeks. Difference is Koreans aren't proud of their emotional outbursts. It's usually a sign of the end of the line. Greeks wear their passion on their sleeves.

I sometimes like the Korean style of emoting. At one Hana bank, the security guard basically shouts at people if they walk in the wrong direction or appear to be loitering or just look like they shouldn't be there. Twice this dude bawled at me for trivial reasons. Third time, I bawled back at him something awful. He just stood their looking at me with that typical stunned look I see here so often. That was quite satisfying.

[nautilus]

[hellofaniceguy]