Korean Job Discussion Forums

[NohopeSeriously]

[rchristo10]

[rainism]

now that I think about it, I think Koreans are pretty good at plastic surgery.

I don't have any issue with anyone who chooses to "get some work done" (as the euphemism goes). Their choice.

what horrifies me is seeing most of the results stateside after most such procedures.

tons of lizard faces.. people who just look BAD.

and no sense of proportion on boobage. Just big balloon bags. Gross.

so I guess I'm shocked Koreans are so good at plastic surgery

[gem]

Some of the procedures people are having done are pretty shocking. The eye surgery only produces marginal changes. I've heard that some kids are having a part of their tongues cut in order to pronunciate English better and I don't know if this is true or not but there are some people having their legs extended somehow.

I'm not against plastic surgery either. I'd probably do it someday twenty years from now. What I won't do is anything too extreme, and whatever I do, I won't act like a psycho about it later.

[catman]

Cats being treated like rats.

[SeoulFinn]

There are few things that I remember, the infernally hot and humid Korean summer being one of them, but I think that the most shocking thing to me was how much I enjoyed my time in Korea.

I felt like I had returned home (ok, after some adjustment time) and had finally found the place where I want to be. Maybe this can be explained by the facts that I majored in Korean studies and my first trip took place during the 2002 World Cup. Aww, those were the times, eh?

[elltotheoh]

--ALL the women in high heels. Especially since I arrived right in the midst of monsoon season. The first Sunday I was in church I saw a nun and I said to myself, "that's the first woman I've seen in sensible shoes so far!"

--everyone's willingness to help me. I guess this is coupled with how common at least a conversational knowledge of English is here. My first few weeks, I couldn't stand anywhere looking confused for more than two or three minutes before someone would come up and assist me.

--the RAIN. I'm from South Florida, I know what a rainy summer is like, but damn. It never stopped.

--the lack of open container laws.

--the scarcity of garbage cans in public places, yet how clean everything was

--how quickly I could get from Yongin to Seoul. I know to Seoulites it seems epically far but if you look at a map and then consider that it took me only 35 minutes to get from my town to Gangnam, it makes you marvel at Korean public transportation.

[isisaredead]

[Squire]

How often people use their horns, and how casually they do it. In the UK you can be pretty sure when someone uses the horn they'll be sitting behind the wheel swearing.

The 'handsome' comments from kids, often not even my own students. I was gutted when I found out everyone (even balding and overweight guys in their 40s) gets the same treatment though

[Illysook]

Having people bow to me as I enter or leave a store

Cat food costs 4 times what it does in the states...why?!!!

The combination of super short skirts with super high heels...hurts my feet and legs just thinking about it, plus it makes me a little uncomfortable...especially when walking up subway steps. (I'm female and I'm not supposed to be looking, but it's kinda like watching two trains about to wreck...hard to look away!)

[Died By Bear]