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PastorYoon
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Location: Sea of Japan
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I still can't get over how absolutely terrible the weather is here. God-awful. I hear students tell me sometimes how much they love the rain, but I know it's a lie (defense mechanism).  |
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isisaredead
Joined: 18 May 2010
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| Posted: Wed Jul 27, 2011 7:58 pm Post subject: |
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it STILL shocks me how much people lie here. all the time. even if there's no reason.
it's amazing. |
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PastorYoon
Joined: 25 Jun 2010
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| Posted: Wed Jul 27, 2011 8:18 pm Post subject: |
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| isisaredead wrote: |
it STILL shocks me how much people lie here. all the time. even if there's no reason.
it's amazing. |
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isisaredead
Joined: 18 May 2010
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| Posted: Wed Jul 27, 2011 8:32 pm Post subject: |
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| i meant koreans. they lie. all the time. |
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Pa Jan Jo A Hamnida
Joined: 27 Oct 2006
Location: Not Korea
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| Posted: Wed Jul 27, 2011 10:05 pm Post subject: |
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| teachyou1004 wrote: |
| What about the tall babes in the banks with the short skirts always carries the firearm. I see it in post offices too. |
The guns aren't real. I had a friend who worked at a bank and I asked her about it. Hmm... she also used lifts to make herself look taller. |
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PastorYoon
Joined: 25 Jun 2010
Location: Sea of Japan
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| Posted: Wed Jul 27, 2011 11:39 pm Post subject: |
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| isisaredead wrote: |
| i meant koreans. they lie. all the time. |
Yep. |
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NohopeSeriously
Joined: 17 Jan 2011
Location: The Christian Right-Wing Educational Republic of Korea
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| Posted: Thu Jul 28, 2011 6:08 am Post subject: |
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The society here reminds me of Yeltsin's administration in Russia. It's South Korea after all.
1 step forward 4 steps backwards. |
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marsavalanche
Joined: 27 Aug 2010
Location: where pretty lies perish
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| Posted: Thu Jul 28, 2011 6:13 am Post subject: |
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| isisaredead wrote: |
| i meant koreans. they lie. all the time. |
someones had enough of this place.
change your attitude. I have plenty of korean friends and I find them similar to my friends back home. Koreans don't lie to me. why do you think that is? do you think i'm just lucky? nope. |
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marsavalanche
Joined: 27 Aug 2010
Location: where pretty lies perish
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| Posted: Thu Jul 28, 2011 6:17 am Post subject: |
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| PastorYoon wrote: |
| I still can't get over how absolutely terrible the weather is here. God-awful. I hear students tell me sometimes how much they love the rain, but I know it's a lie (defense mechanism). |
seoul has the worst weather i've ever seen. extreme summers/winters spring and fall last a week tops. worst rain in 20 years, worst rain in 100 years two weeks later.
i haven't ruled out being a lifer, but if I go that route I'm definitely not doing seoul forever. |
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teachyou1004
Joined: 29 Jun 2011
Location: SF Bay Area
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| Posted: Thu Jul 28, 2011 6:58 am Post subject: |
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| The guns aren't real. I had a friend who worked at a bank and I asked her about it. Hmm... she also used lifts to make herself look taller |
One reason not to use an ATM! Exemplifies the backwardness of the country while being cute as hell - innocence.
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isisaredead
Joined: 18 May 2010
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| Posted: Thu Jul 28, 2011 7:04 am Post subject: |
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| marsavalanche wrote: |
| isisaredead wrote: |
| i meant koreans. they lie. all the time. |
someones had enough of this place.
change your attitude. I have plenty of korean friends and I find them similar to my friends back home. Koreans don't lie to me. why do you think that is? do you think i'm just lucky? nope. |
it's a cultural thing. i accepted it a long time ago.
still shocking, though.
(btw, they do lie to you. trust me.) |
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rainism
Joined: 13 Apr 2011
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| Posted: Thu Jul 28, 2011 7:56 am Post subject: |
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| isisaredead wrote: |
| marsavalanche wrote: |
| isisaredead wrote: |
| i meant koreans. they lie. all the time. |
someones had enough of this place.
change your attitude. I have plenty of korean friends and I find them similar to my friends back home. Koreans don't lie to me. why do you think that is? do you think i'm just lucky? nope. |
it's a cultural thing. i accepted it a long time ago.
still shocking, though.
(btw, they do lie to you. trust me.) |
I assume you mean in matter of 'face'. Culturally speaking it's acceptable for them to lie in order to save someone's 'face' (or their own) |
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Feloria
Joined: 02 Sep 2006
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| Posted: Thu Jul 28, 2011 8:28 am Post subject: |
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The types of lies are the big issue for me.
The "Saving face" type of lie so they aren't embarassed: "oh my friend told me the movie started at 8pm." They just accidently got the times wrong. No big deal-we all "save face" from time to time.
The "I don't want to deal with a foreigner" type of lie: "No, we don't do that here" and you have had the service done there every month for the past two years.
The "I don't mean a thing I'm saying, but I don't want any conflict" type of lie: "Oh yes, If you teach 10 classes a day this month, you'll have a better schedule next month"
And Finally, The "I'm lying to your face to make my life easier" type of lie:
"Yes, you can absolutely have December off" Then in November "Sorry, we're too busy, you can't take December off"
You get my drift!   |
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rainism
Joined: 13 Apr 2011
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I'm reading a big book about the Korean War. I'm at the beginning, before the North invaded. The book focuses on the American (mis)administration of South Korea beforehand.
it stresses no American knew anything about Korea, Koreans, and Korean culture. (no surprise here)
it also repeats at various intervals how 99% of all Americans hated being in Korea, hated the country and everything about it and just wanted to get out.
(this is before the war mind you). Which they did (get out) and set the stage for the Kim Sung Il attack a year later.
this is in stark contast with Japan , where Americans got along quite well with the Japanese and enjoyed their lives there.
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NohopeSeriously
Joined: 17 Jan 2011
Location: The Christian Right-Wing Educational Republic of Korea
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| Posted: Thu Jul 28, 2011 8:47 am Post subject: |
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| rainism wrote: |
| Which they did (get out) and set the stage for the Kim Sung Il attack a year later. |
Who is Kim Sung Il? |
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