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cdninkorea
Joined: 27 Jan 2006
Location: Seoul
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| Once, when walking through the parking lot of the Lotte Hotel to get to Jamshil station, I saw a few buses with large banners saying "Welcome UN War Veterans" and a lot of elderly Westerners outside the hotel. I stopped to talk to one of them, who was a New Zealand Korean War veteran, on a group tour of Korea with other veterans. This was in 2007, and he said it was his previous trip to Korea had been in 1952, when Seoul was complete rubble. I didn't talk to him for too long, but it was interesting to get his perspective on how Korea had changed. |
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daeguowl
Joined: 06 Aug 2009
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Sun Feb 05, 2012 11:33 pm Post subject: |
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| cdninkorea wrote: |
| Once, when walking through the parking lot of the Lotte Hotel to get to Jamshil station, I saw a few buses with large banners saying "Welcome UN War Veterans" and a lot of elderly Westerners outside the hotel. I stopped to talk to one of them, who was a New Zealand Korean War veteran, on a group tour of Korea with other veterans. This was in 2007, and he said it was his previous trip to Korea had been in 1952, when Seoul was complete rubble. I didn't talk to him for too long, but it was interesting to get his perspective on how Korea had changed. |
Those veterans come every year from NZ, Australia, UK, Canada and the USA and are semi-sponsored by the Korean government. The British Korean Veterans Association sponsors Korean students to study in the UK and British students to study in Korea. |
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jfromtheway
Joined: 20 Nov 2010
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| Posted: Mon Feb 06, 2012 4:15 am Post subject: |
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| I guess I got one. I got sauced with the French guy with the gray beard in the AXA commercial I see nearly every day. I also saw him in another commercial, but I forget the brand. I knew he was a model of some kind, but that was a good two months before the commercials came out, so it was funny to see the first few times. Now, it's just annoying and overplayed. |
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Yaya
Joined: 25 Feb 2003
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Mon Feb 06, 2012 3:04 pm Post subject: |
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A businessman who has lived for decades in Korea, Peter Bartholomew, is waging a lonely but dedicated fight to preserve Korea's hanok homes.
I'm sure plenty of other people would qualify a mention in this thread. I guess you don't hear too much about them as they normally don't congregate with other expats because they're too busy doing what they do.
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myenglishisno
Joined: 08 Mar 2011
Location: Geumchon
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| Posted: Mon Feb 06, 2012 3:19 pm Post subject: |
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| Yaya wrote: |
A businessman who has lived for decades in Korea, Peter Bartholomew, is waging a lonely but dedicated fight to preserve Korea's hanok homes.
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Respect. |
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diver
Joined: 16 Jun 2003
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dogbert
Joined: 29 Jan 2003
Location: Killbox 90210
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| Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2012 6:32 pm Post subject: |
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I knew this kyopo once, kind of an arrogant guy. Had worked as an English teacher, then went on to do something else.
Anyway, he got disillusioned with Korea after a few years (he'd been in Korea since the mid-90s) and decided to move to L.A. But after about a year in L.A., he found out he couldn't deal with "LA kyopos" and went scurrying back to Korea. I got a chuckle out of that. Some people are miserable wherever they go, not realizing the problem is really them, not other people.
Last I heard he was still in Korea, living mostly on the Internet, and bragging about how he brought home a five-figure salary and was saving a ton of money by living in Korea. |
Do you have an axe to grind with kyopos? I'm aksing you a question here. We're not supposed to be on here targeting other people and maligning Koreans, Japanese, Kyopos, and generalizing Kyopos is prejudice. We don't accept prejudice here.
If you keep it up, we'll have to take actions because the TOS clearly says maligning any group is verboten. It's clearly verboten.
Read the TOS. I updated it, and I clarified it.
Thank you... |
I was speaking of one individual, not generalizing. You can change it to "Korean-American" if that would be better. |
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pegasus64128
Joined: 20 Aug 2011
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| I once saw this Western girl in Bucheon and she was actually hot. She had unusually feminine qualities for a Western girl - great skin, nice body, innocent look, not at all fat but not too skinny. She was refined and pure. It was weird. Never met her though. I was going out with a Korean girl (who was with me) at the time. |
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Allthechildrenareinsane
Joined: 23 Jun 2011
Location: Lost in a Roman wilderness of pain
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| Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2012 8:46 pm Post subject: |
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| I never had the chance to talk to him, but when I lived in Busan I would always see this older white guy in overalls playing the banjo and busking outside of the Homeplus in Centum City singing old timey country music. I wish I had gone up to him at least once just to ask him what his story was. |
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Paddycakes
Joined: 05 May 2003
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2012 10:20 pm Post subject: |
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| pegasus64128 wrote: |
| I once saw this Western girl in Bucheon and she was actually hot. She had unusually feminine qualities for a Western girl - great skin, nice body, innocent look, not at all fat but not too skinny. She was refined and pure. It was weird. Never met her though. I was going out with a Korean girl (who was with me) at the time. |
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