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dyc
Joined: 16 Dec 2010
Location: Vancouver
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Cuz, yknow, everyone can afford to travel to Korea and Japan. Or, god forbid that people are fascinated with something that you're not.
Unless of course the OP is referring to a sort of Orientalism? |
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chellovek
Joined: 29 Feb 2008
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| Posted: Wed Feb 09, 2011 9:57 pm Post subject: |
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Never met such people.
Having said that, I don't mind Korea but K-pop and K-drama aren't my cup of tea.
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Underwaterbob
Joined: 08 Jan 2005
Location: In Cognito
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| Posted: Wed Feb 09, 2011 10:20 pm Post subject: |
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| The only Koreaphile I've ever met was here. He was a completely socially inept know-it-all, especially when it came to matters Korean. He disappeared after a couple of months. |
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zappadelta
Joined: 31 Aug 2004
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| Posted: Thu Feb 10, 2011 2:14 am Post subject: |
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| Captain Corea wrote: |
| I've never met anyone like what the OP is describing. |
+1 |
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eamo
Joined: 08 Mar 2003
Location: Shepherd's Bush, 1964.
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| Posted: Thu Feb 10, 2011 3:10 am Post subject: |
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I did work with an American who had married a Korean girl, dressed in Hanbok sometimes, loved all korean food, and studied Korean lang extensively......he was the most immersed foreigner in Korea I'd met......until....
......until.....our boss pulled some Korea-boss-style-shafting on him.....then he was totally American again! Shouting his head off at the boss in the teachers room etc.....ditching all concepts of confucian 'harmony'..... |
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Tundra_Creature
Joined: 11 Jun 2009
Location: Canada
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| Posted: Thu Feb 10, 2011 4:08 am Post subject: |
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Am I a bad person for liking stuff from Korea and Japan? Should I start hating the countries now that I've been to them? D=
Damn. I guess I'm super uncool now. Guess I'll never get the title of homecoming queen... |
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happiness
Joined: 04 Sep 2010
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| Posted: Thu Feb 10, 2011 4:12 am Post subject: |
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| eamo wrote: |
I did work with an American who had married a Korean girl, dressed in Hanbok sometimes, loved all korean food, and studied Korean lang extensively......he was the most immersed foreigner in Korea I'd met......until....
......until.....our boss pulled some Korea-boss-style-shafting on him.....then he was totally American again! Shouting his head off at the boss in the teachers room etc.....ditching all concepts of confucian 'harmony'..... |
i know a few guys here like that, me too, but noone can go confucian. we men need our nuts! |
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Lastrova
Joined: 30 Dec 2010
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| Posted: Thu Feb 10, 2011 4:32 am Post subject: |
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| Tundra_Creature wrote: |
Am I a bad person for liking stuff from Korea and Japan? Should I start hating the countries now that I've been to them? D=
Damn. I guess I'm super uncool now. Guess I'll never get the title of homecoming queen... |
I think this suffix, "ophile", needs some extracting. If you're a Japanophile, you're not only immersed in the language and popular culture, but the traditions, philosophies, etiquette, aesthetics, religion, history, erotica, the behavior and sensibilities. You're a connoisseur. I'd really like to hear what that all means in Korea. Hey, I like stuff in Korea, too, but if you think that's it, you guys are in way over your heads. |
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Kurtz
Joined: 05 Jan 2007
Location: ples bilong me
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| Posted: Thu Feb 10, 2011 5:03 am Post subject: |
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| Lastrova, you've gotta be TheGipkik reincarnated right? Why the name change? |
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tomato
Joined: 31 Jan 2003
Location: I get so little foreign language experience, I must be in Koreatown, Los Angeles.
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| Posted: Thu Feb 10, 2011 5:18 am Post subject: |
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| kohmelo wrote: |
They even type in Korean, watch K-dramas, listen to K-pop, dress and look like they are Korean (which makes them look like r'tards.) And they always talk about how much they love Korea and Koreans..
Yet, ask them if they've been to Korea they always give the same answer..
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That's how I was about Bolivia.
Then I actually went to Bolivia, not expecting to have a problem in the world, and found that I had bragged too soon.
This time, I knew better.
| Tundra_Creature wrote: |
| Am I a bad person for liking stuff from Korea and Japan? Should I start hating the countries now that I've been to them? |
That depends.
Do you really have those feelings, or are you merely reciting the party line?
| eamo wrote: |
I did work with an American who had married a Korean girl, dressed in Hanbok sometimes, loved all korean food, and studied Korean lang extensively......he was the most immersed foreigner in Korea I'd met......until....
......until.....our boss pulled some Korea-boss-style-shafting on him.....then he was totally American again! Shouting his head off at the boss in the teachers room etc.....ditching all concepts of confucian 'harmony'..... |
I wonder why it is considered such a status symbol to marry a Korean.
I've worked under two wegukin's who married Koreans, and both of them were real bimbos.
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| Yet, ask them if they've been to Korea they always give the same answer.. |
I love Korea/Koreans.
I live in Korea.
Explain THAT.
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Globutron, I hear what you are saying.
And I hear what some of the other contributors have been saying.
I think it is good that you folks want to mix and mingle with Koreans rather than spending all your time in Western bars with other wegukins, watching Western movies, and listening to Western pop songs.
But there is a right way and a wrong way to approach Koreans.
If you see Koreans as real people rather than sociological curiosities, fine.
I don't know where the rest of you are from, but in my country, there are a lot of White people who go up and shake hands with every Black person they see.
The Black people resent that.
Conversely, there are a lot of Black people who respond to White people the same way.
The White people resent that.
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| Thank goodness there isn't anywhere in the world that idolizes and admires American culture & the English language... |
| Steelrails wrote: |
How dare people like Koreans when they should be liking us.
EDIT- Then I assume that the idea of Koreans in Korea dressing like us, enjoying our food and entertainment, and speaking our language is equally ludicrous. |
That works both ways between Koreans and wegukins here,
just like it works both ways between Black people and White people back home.
Haven't you ever resented Koreans expecting you to put on a song and dance for them just because you're a wegukin? |
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