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jajdude
Joined: 18 Jan 2003
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I noticed Koreans in Taiwan too, though they were scarce there. Usually I heard the language first anyway. I had lived in Korea a few years before going to Taiwan for a year. Then I might say, "Hey, you are from Korea."
They'd say, "How did you know?" I'd just say I had visited Korea before and could tell the language. But they were a little different.
In Thailand I guess they are hard to notice. So many foreigners of so many nationalities there, at least in BKK and the main tourist areas. |
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aussie col
Joined: 31 Jan 2004
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| I've been here 2 years now, and I keep hoping the mens "BOZO shoes" will go away. |
God, are they still around.
The womens long pointy shoes I always found funny. They would have to crab walk up the subway steps because their shoes couldn't fit on the step.
Last year the mens long square end shoes became 'big' in Australia. |
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The Man known as The Man
Joined: 29 Mar 2003
Location: 3 cheers for Ted Haggard oh yeah!
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If a Korean stranger wants to practice English with you, sound out the pronounciation of Fukuoka.
HAVE A NICE DAY!!! |
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Donghae
Joined: 24 Dec 2003
Location: Fukuoka, Japan
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| Posted: Wed Apr 14, 2004 4:38 pm Post subject: |
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| The Man known as The Man wrote: |
If a Korean stranger wants to practice English with you, sound out the pronounciation of Fukuoka.
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That might be funny if Fukuoka was an English word, and probably is funny to large number of people who say it like it is.
But a Japanese "f" is very similar to a Japanese "h". The correct pronunciation of (Mt.) Fuji, for example, is achieved by saying the first letter as something like a cross between an English f and an English h.
So when Koreans hangeulize it as Hu-ku-o-ka, they actually manage a much more accurate pronunciation than most English speakers do. |
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just because
Joined: 01 Aug 2003
Location: Changwon - 4964
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| Posted: Thu Apr 15, 2004 3:37 am Post subject: |
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I was very amused to note that whereas the OP says about Koreans in Fukuoka
"You can pick them a mile away"
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"I had been in japan many times in the past but this was the first time i really noticed the differences between the 2" |
Fair point. The reason why i hadn't noticed before was 2 fold.
1. I lived in Sapporo, Tokyo and Osaka so i presume the amount of visiting Koreans would be far less than in Fukuoka so you would run into them a lot less.
2. This was the first I went to Fukuoka and went to the tourists spots. The other times i went shopping and drinking.
So there are many Korean tourists at the tourist spots so they are much more visible.
This were they reasons why I had never really noticed it even though I had been there many times. |
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Donghae
Joined: 24 Dec 2003
Location: Fukuoka, Japan
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| Posted: Thu Apr 15, 2004 5:08 am Post subject: |
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| just because wrote: |
| donghae wrote: |
I was very amused to note that whereas the OP says about Koreans in Fukuoka
"You can pick them a mile away"
then later adds
"I had been in japan many times in the past but this was the first time i really noticed the differences between the 2" |
Fair point. The reason why i hadn't noticed before was 2 fold.
1. I lived in Sapporo, Tokyo and Osaka so i presume the amount of visiting Koreans would be far less than in Fukuoka so you would run into them a lot less.
2. This was the first I went to Fukuoka and went to the tourists spots. The other times i went shopping and drinking.
So there are many Korean tourists at the tourist spots so they are much more visible.
This were they reasons why I had never really noticed it even though I had been there many times. |
Yes, I know what you mean here and agree. I think also that in the last 5 years or so, the amount of tourist traffic between Fukuoka and Korea, especially by sea, but also by air, has increased enormously. As well as that, probably in other areas of Japan Koreans make up a significantly lower %age of the foreign tourists than they do in Fukuoka. Nice place though I think Fukuoka is, it's likely to be missed off the itinerary of most non-Asian tourists in Japan, whereas for Koreans its proximity and ease of access amongst other things make it an attractive prospect for a short overseas trip.
Personally, I disagree about wishing Koreans would interact like the Japanese, however. There are behavioural traits I like and dislike in both countries (as there are in every country I've been to) but I find the Japanese slightly harder work than the Koreans in this regard. I'd also say that many nationalities perhaps don't show their best side when they're tourists. So if you've been comparing how Korean tourists behave in Japan with the locals' behaviour, I'm not sure that'd be a fair comparison.
Incidentally, whereabouts did you go when you were here? |
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The Man known as The Man
Joined: 29 Mar 2003
Location: 3 cheers for Ted Haggard oh yeah!
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| Posted: Thu Apr 15, 2004 1:14 pm Post subject: |
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| Donghae wrote: |
| The Man known as The Man wrote: |
If a Korean stranger wants to practice English with you, sound out the pronounciation of Fukuoka.
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That might be funny if Fukuoka was an English word, and probably is funny to large number of people who say it like it is.
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My bad. I knew a post like this was an inevitability and I was nowhere near a computer.
But if a Korean asks you English, just write it down in Anglais and give to em phonetically.
And you can even do it Canadian style... "a"? |
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little mixed girl
Joined: 11 Jun 2003
Location: shin hyesung's bed~
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lush72
Joined: 18 Aug 2003
Location: I am Penalty Kick!
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| Posted: Thu Apr 15, 2004 4:33 pm Post subject: |
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| buddy bradley wrote: |
| just because wrote: |
| Koreans Are VERY noticeable in Fukuoka!!!!!! |
And on a related note, please allow me to point out that white people are VERY noticeable in Korea!!!!!! |
Yes- it is easy to point out caucasian people in an asian country. Why even say that? Its obvious. |
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just because
Joined: 01 Aug 2003
Location: Changwon - 4964
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| Posted: Fri Apr 16, 2004 7:56 am Post subject: |
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| Donghae wrote: |
| Incidentally, whereabouts did you go when you were here? |
In my last visit i went to....
Fukuoka Tower(looks cool)
Baseball game(Daiei vs. Osaka - great game)
Fukuoka Castle
Tenjin (good place to shop)
Canal City(bit of a rip off but whenever i go with the missus it is the first place she heads for  )
The really nice park in the middle of the city
Bit of the nightlife.
And just walked around, took photos and talked a lot to random people
Stayed near Hakata Station. |
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wylde
Joined: 14 Apr 2003
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| aussie col wrote: |
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| I've been here 2 years now, and I keep hoping the mens "BOZO shoes" will go away. |
God, are they still around.
The womens long pointy shoes I always found funny. They would have to crab walk up the subway steps because their shoes couldn't fit on the step.
Last year the mens long square end shoes became 'big' in Australia. |
because they are short asses.. therefore not attractive to korean males 
first time i went to japan i tried to barge past an 'ajuma' to get on the escalator.. she stoped and said (from what i can gather), you go first..
that is probably why koreans are more noticable in japan.. they have no tact. |
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Mashimaro
Joined: 31 Jan 2003
Location: location, location
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| Posted: Sat Apr 17, 2004 2:09 am Post subject: |
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| jajdude wrote: |
In Thailand I guess they are hard to notice. So many foreigners of so many nationalities there, at least in BKK and the main tourist areas. |
I noticed heaps of koreans in Bangkok.. just look for the bus that stops at the major tourist attractions for 5 minutes then heads off to the gem factory for 2 hours of shopping 
You can't miss the ajosshi 'fashions' either |
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Kwangjuchicken
Joined: 01 Sep 2003
Location: I was abducted by aliens on my way to Korea and forced to be an EFL teacher on this crazy planet.
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| Posted: Sun Apr 18, 2004 12:09 am Post subject: |
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| IconsFanatic wrote: |
| Give Korea a decade or two. Japan was just as boring in the 1980s. |
Things happen fast in Korea.
I have been here Five years.
When I first arrived the college students BY CHOICE wore clothes that looked almost like School uniforms. They all had black hair. None of them ever wore jeans or shorts in class. Also, they mostly wore dress shoes in class, or else brand new tennis shoes.
Five years later, they have hair every color of the rainbow, piercings all over, were shorts and falling apart tennis shoes or sandels in class, and pay big bucks for jeans that are in 100 times worse condition then they would have needed to be in 5 years ago to be put in the trash.
And as I posted before, whereas my greatgrandmother (a pig farmer in West Milton, Ohio) had a telephone in the 1890's, most Koreans did not get their first phone until the 1980's. And soon, babies will prpbably be genetically engineered to be born with a cell phone as a body part and pop out saying yoboseyo.  
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