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Caffeinated
Joined: 11 Feb 2010
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From chatting with my female married teachers and students, there's a lot of family obligations involving keeping parents-in-law happy. They often leave early Friday afternoons to prepare meals for gatherings. Family trips will depend on the whims of the parents. They'll complain about having to pay to visit Jeju so soon after a previous trip but that's where the parents decided to go.
And woe to the eldest/only daughter since she'll be expected to take care of her parents as well.
Today at a Grade 4 class I saw a selected display of their plans for the future. For the girls it was all about their wedding day. It was creepy seeing how they cut their heads out of their photo and pasted them onto crayon drawings of wedding dresses and imagined grooms. |
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hondaicivic
Joined: 01 Jul 2010
Location: Daegu, South Korea
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| Posted: Tue Dec 14, 2010 5:40 am Post subject: |
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| Caffeinated wrote: |
From chatting with my female married teachers and students, there's a lot of family obligations involving keeping parents-in-law happy. They often leave early Friday afternoons to prepare meals for gatherings. Family trips will depend on the whims of the parents. They'll complain about having to pay to visit Jeju so soon after a previous trip but that's where the parents decided to go.
And woe to the eldest/only daughter since she'll be expected to take care of her parents as well.
Today at a Grade 4 class I saw a selected display of their plans for the future. For the girls it was all about their wedding day. It was creepy seeing how they cut their heads out of their photo and pasted them onto crayon drawings of wedding dresses and imagined grooms. |
.................  Again, this is the reason why I'm very hesitant these days about marrying a woman from Asia, especiallly Korea. My parents will rule the day if they ever try to pull this kind of crap on me and my wife. |
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Sector7G
Joined: 24 May 2008
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| Posted: Tue Dec 14, 2010 6:04 am Post subject: |
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| hondaicivic wrote: |
| My parents will rule the day if they ever try to pull this kind of crap on me and my wife. |
I could be wrong, but I think the term you were looking for was "rue the day", as in regret their actions. Unless, of course, you meant that they will be celebrating on that day for getting over on you. |
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swashbuckler
Joined: 20 Nov 2010
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| Posted: Tue Dec 14, 2010 11:13 am Post subject: |
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| hondaicivic wrote: |
| My parents will rule the day if they ever try to pull this kind of crap on me and my wife. |
Don't you mean 'rue the day' "English teacher"?  |
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hondaicivic
Joined: 01 Jul 2010
Location: Daegu, South Korea
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| Posted: Tue Dec 14, 2010 3:10 pm Post subject: |
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| swashbuckler wrote: |
| hondaicivic wrote: |
| My parents will rule the day if they ever try to pull this kind of crap on me and my wife. |
Don't you mean 'rue the day' "English teacher"? |
Sorry, "rue the day". I was tired and it was midnight. |
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Triban
Joined: 14 Jul 2009
Location: Suwon Station
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| Posted: Wed Dec 15, 2010 5:34 pm Post subject: Re: Treatment of women in Korea? |
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| hondaicivic wrote: |
If my mother ever tried to pull that crap on my future wife, she will rule the day she gave birth to me......... |
Wow does she rule any other days?!
I think the word you're looking for is RUE, brother. Don't use colloquialisms if you only have a vague understanding of them! 
Beaten to the punch...however, late at night is not an excuse to do it twice!
Don't make excuses! You thought people were saying rule because it sounds similar to rue! (although the former doesn't make much sense in context)
If you make a mistake...own it. Own that mistake and park your new mistakenly bought car in the new mistake garage.
YEAH |
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hondaicivic
Joined: 01 Jul 2010
Location: Daegu, South Korea
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| Posted: Wed Dec 15, 2010 6:15 pm Post subject: Re: Treatment of women in Korea? |
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| Triban wrote: |
| hondaicivic wrote: |
If my mother ever tried to pull that crap on my future wife, she will rule the day she gave birth to me......... |
Wow does she rule any other days?!
I think the word you're looking for is RUE, brother. Don't use colloquialisms if you only have a vague understanding of them!
Beaten to the punch...however, late at night is not an excuse to do it twice!
Don't make excuses! You thought people were saying rule because it sounds similar to rue! (although the former doesn't make much sense in context)
If you make a mistake...own it. Own that mistake and park your new mistakenly bought car in the new mistake garage.
YEAH |
::sigh::.........another f****** grammar nazi. |
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machinoman
Joined: 12 Feb 2010
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| Posted: Wed Dec 15, 2010 7:54 pm Post subject: |
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| lol at 'rue the day' tangent. he will rule the day he made that mistake. |
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Steelrails
Joined: 12 Mar 2009
Location: Earth, Solar System
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| Posted: Wed Dec 15, 2010 8:06 pm Post subject: |
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Most guys here are as into sports as the next and most women take up either tennis or dance or golf. As for older people they can walk for ages and hike. The average Korean at 70 is pretty limber and can still do things like sit cross-legged on the floor.
As for K-Military, I'd imagine ROK marines are pretty inshape, but yeah I've seen some guys who clearly lucked out and got a gig as "Army Base Vehicle Parking Permit Issuer" or something.
Sometimes though getting a 'lucky' K-army job can be full of exercise. One of my friends thought he had it good as a Military Groundskeeper, but instead he spent all day digging ditches, potting plants, fighting off wasp's nests and hauling junk around. |
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Triban
Joined: 14 Jul 2009
Location: Suwon Station
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| Posted: Wed Dec 15, 2010 8:49 pm Post subject: |
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| machinoman wrote: |
| lol at 'rue the day' tangent. he will rule the day he made that mistake. |
I C WUT U DID DERE! |
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simpleminds
Joined: 04 May 2006
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| Posted: Thu Dec 16, 2010 1:11 am Post subject: |
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Been here 10 years, had no problems, apart from drunk adjosshis trying to touch my boobs on the subway, and a couple of other dolts circling around staring at you on their motorbikes. This was in Incheon, though, which has the rep of being the pits.
Never dated here, I have no interest in dating to begin with, let alone Korean men, with the cultural/mother-in-law issues. I'm too much of a free bird. *shrug* |
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PastorYoon
Joined: 25 Jun 2010
Location: Sea of Japan
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| Posted: Thu Dec 16, 2010 4:54 am Post subject: |
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Kurtz
Joined: 05 Jan 2007
Location: ples bilong me
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| Posted: Thu Dec 16, 2010 4:58 am Post subject: |
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For a so-called rich nation, I think they treat some women here quite badly. Seeing old women sitting out in the freezing cold selling lettuce leaves isn't very nice, and when my school was getting reconstruction done to it, half the laborers were ajumma. I've also seen many ajumma on building sites carrying bags of cement around. Maybe they find it empowering.
Young women seem to rule here though. Milksop Korean men need to step up and show them who's boss; at the moment it sure isn't them. |
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Steelrails
Joined: 12 Mar 2009
Location: Earth, Solar System
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| Posted: Thu Dec 16, 2010 7:23 am Post subject: |
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| Kurtz wrote: |
For a so-called rich nation, I think they treat some women here quite badly. Seeing old women sitting out in the freezing cold selling lettuce leaves isn't very nice, and when my school was getting reconstruction done to it, half the laborers were ajumma. I've also seen many ajumma on building sites carrying bags of cement around. Maybe they find it empowering.
Young women seem to rule here though. Milksop Korean men need to step up and show them who's boss; at the moment it sure isn't them. |
Korea is a sexist wife-beating country. LOL those K-Flower boys are such gay wimps always holding purses. |
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redaxe
Joined: 01 Dec 2008
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| Posted: Thu Dec 16, 2010 9:35 am Post subject: |
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| Steelrails wrote: |
| Kurtz wrote: |
For a so-called rich nation, I think they treat some women here quite badly. Seeing old women sitting out in the freezing cold selling lettuce leaves isn't very nice, and when my school was getting reconstruction done to it, half the laborers were ajumma. I've also seen many ajumma on building sites carrying bags of cement around. Maybe they find it empowering.
Young women seem to rule here though. Milksop Korean men need to step up and show them who's boss; at the moment it sure isn't them. |
Korea is a sexist wife-beating country. LOL those K-Flower boys are such gay wimps always holding purses. |
That's the generation gap. The dads are wife-beaters and their sons are flower boys. |
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