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I don't get how Koreans act so tough with their "Gun dramas". Girls- no.. waifs that have trouble lifting iPods are suddenly transformed into Olympic-class marksmen and the androgynous men are given talents that rival a Navy Seals...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iris_%28TV_series%29

A Korean's love of all things having to do with Nazis... Someone forgot to tell the locals that Nazis were allies and supporters of Imperial Japan

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Way_%282011_film%29

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[Tropic of Cancer]

1. Audible, open-mouthed gum chewing
2. Acid-washed skinny jeans
3. Summer
4. "Boring" rather than "bored," "funny" rather than "fun"
5. Stores that play music at nightclub volume (e.g., ABC Mart)
6. Common public bathroom issues: no toilet paper; toilet paper dispenser outside of the stalls; no hand soap; no drying apparatus; squat toilet
7. 24-hour ATMs that stop working, say, after eleven
8. Stores that are open for "25 Hours a day"

[Who's Your Daddy?]

The overriding thing that bothers me is a local's desire to be the same as others. They don't want to be different or creative, they want to be the same.

I think this desire for being the same, or scared to be different, results in conformity to rules, and creation of rules to follow. I also think the lack of creativity will reduce the economic potential; they'll always be copying.

Face time at work although you don't have work to do, top down communication, memorize the answer, bandwagon fashion and music. It makes the country stale.

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Western countries celebrate individuality and creativity. Here they do not, they model conformity. They study in school how to act Korean. If you don't act that way; you're not Korean. Hence, "Koreans think..." statements. They've been taught that's how to think.

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The Korean love of mixed coffee. I don't hate it...I kinda of love it too, but I love it when I'm cold from a ride and sitting on some dingy seat in the bike shop smoking a cigarette with grease on my fingers, chatting to the mechanic and drinking hot sweet coffee.

So many Koreans seem to think the stuff is high class, like Spam, over priced French wine and Ballantine's whiskey.

Some of my rich students love to serve 'expensive' instant coffee. You can't sit down with fancy cups, in your uber fancy custom designed place with fancy napkins all done up in your best department store duds, professing your love of all things like golf, equestrian, world travel, fancy French wine and serve instant coffee! You've got the 2 thousand dollar TV, the best phone, a front loading washer, dish washer, bidet and the Equus in your parking spot...where the f&^% is your coffee machine?

It's like going to en expensive resort on Jeju and drinking Korean beer.

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Adjumas in Restaurants telling me "no this is how you want your food"

And some Koreans arguing with me that I am Spanish, but I'm getting used to the fact I'm Spanish now it must be true if and old Korean person says so.

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1. Korean 'beer'. A disgrace to the name of beer. A blot on the beer landscape everywhere. Absolute garbage pretending to the name of beer.

2. Korean pop 'music'. A disgrace to the name of .... [ditto, ditto, ditto]

3. Shallowness and superficiality. People openly give preference to other people if they are good-looking or have money, as if there were nothing wrong with that.

4. Conformity for conformity's sake. Sometimes the fact that everyone else is doing something *is* a sufficient reason for you to be doing it, but if we're having a debate over what everyone *should* be doing then you need to come up with some better reason!!

5. Korean love of 'education'. Does. Not. Exist. What they love is climbing the ladder. That can be a good thing. It can be a solid virtue. But it shouldn't be confused with love of education.

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