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is so delicious
Joined: 28 Apr 2009
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 Posted: Mon May 07, 2012 3:23 am Post subject: Korean college-aged kids practicing dance moves in public |
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...or at an otherwise laid back bar. They do this very earnestly, watching their feet and getting feedback from their friends, somethings barely smiling, and I find it so incredibly awkward, that maybe thirty seconds to a minute feels like an hour.
Anyone notice this or have any thoughts? |
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Dodge7
Joined: 21 Oct 2011
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| Posted: Mon May 07, 2012 4:50 am Post subject: |
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lol, just point and laugh, that broke me out of the gangsta rap I used to listen to in public when I was 16--they made me feel like an idiot (which looking back I did look like one) much like these kids are acting like.
Honestly, POINT and laugh. That should cure most of em.
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thrylos
Joined: 10 Jun 2008
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| Posted: Mon May 07, 2012 5:28 am Post subject: |
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Not only college, but from middle school on and up (at least at my uni's wall-mirror)... They're getting ready for the festivals in their 'dance circles'.  Awkward...If, at least, they had some soul, I'd give em the benefit of the doubt...But, alas.  |
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stilicho25
Joined: 05 Apr 2010
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| Posted: Mon May 07, 2012 12:08 pm Post subject: |
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| Or you could leave them alone. |
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Skipperoo
Joined: 05 Jul 2010
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| Posted: Mon May 07, 2012 12:23 pm Post subject: |
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| Good luck to 'em. |
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transmogrifier
Joined: 02 Jan 2012
Location: Seoul, South Korea
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| Posted: Mon May 07, 2012 2:37 pm Post subject: |
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A lot of my uni students are in dance clubs. That might explain the serious practice going on. Your uni "circle" is a very important thing.
I'd only find it awkward if they were terrible. |
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Perceptioncheck
Joined: 13 Oct 2008
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| Posted: Mon May 07, 2012 3:32 pm Post subject: |
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| Just yesterday I encountered a uni age boy surreptitiously practicing his dance moves on the subway. I could see him sashaying and swishing out of the corner of my eye, and it was incredibly annoying. Probably more annoying than foot tappers and gum smackers put together. |
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DejaVu
Joined: 27 Jan 2011
Location: Your dreams
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| Posted: Mon May 07, 2012 6:35 pm Post subject: |
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| Perceptioncheck wrote: |
| Just yesterday I encountered a uni age boy surreptitiously practicing his dance moves on the subway. I could see him sashaying and swishing out of the corner of my eye, and it was incredibly annoying. Probably more annoying than foot tappers and gum smackers put together. |
You all sound like such swell people.
Yeah, public dancing practice is about the lamest thing one can do but there's no reason for you to impede. |
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radcon
Joined: 23 May 2011
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| Posted: Mon May 07, 2012 7:14 pm Post subject: |
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Its totally gay but who cares, its free entertainment. Its not as if they were dancing around in church or the library.
Some nublie coeds dancing on the subway to brighten up my commute? Hell yes I say. |
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Perceptioncheck
Joined: 13 Oct 2008
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| Posted: Mon May 07, 2012 7:43 pm Post subject: |
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| DejaVu wrote: |
| Perceptioncheck wrote: |
| Just yesterday I encountered a uni age boy surreptitiously practicing his dance moves on the subway. I could see him sashaying and swishing out of the corner of my eye, and it was incredibly annoying. Probably more annoying than foot tappers and gum smackers put together. |
You all sound like such swell people.
Yeah, public dancing practice is about the lamest thing one can do but there's no reason for you to impede. |
Are you trying to say that dancing on a crowded subway is a swell thing to do? |
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Steelrails
Joined: 12 Mar 2009
Location: Earth, Solar System
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| Posted: Mon May 07, 2012 9:22 pm Post subject: |
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| I love how people say that this country is too conformist and needs to loosen up and be more carefree and creative and and less stressed and more spontaneous and find hobbies and blah blah blah, then the second they actually dance in the street everyone yells at them and complains. |
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edwardcatflap
Joined: 22 Mar 2009
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| Posted: Mon May 07, 2012 11:10 pm Post subject: |
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| I love how people say that this country is too conformist and needs to loosen up and be more carefree and creative and and less stressed and more spontaneous and find hobbies and blah blah blah, then the second they actually dance in the street everyone yells at them and complains. |
Have you not thought that maybe one group of people have complained about Koreans being too conformist on here in the past and another separate group of people, who don't give a crap about how creative Koreans are, are complaining about kids dancing on the subway now? I mean do you keep track of everything anyone has ever said on here or are you just assuming everyone except you UrbanMyth and PatrickGHBusan speaks with the same voice? |
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DIsbell
Joined: 15 Oct 2008
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| Posted: Tue May 08, 2012 2:30 am Post subject: |
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Devil's Advocate: Wait a second, mimicking the manufactured K-pop dance du jour to participate in a mass forced social event isn't conformist? Jeeze that's like saying pep rallies back in high school weren't conformist.
Now if you were talking about b-boys/girls getting down on some pavement or subway platform I'd totally be with you, but c'mon, a hundred-thousand coeds across the country all doing the Roly-Poly dance just because it's jaranghoi season is about 50 bags more rice a year and 2 generations of technology away from the Mass Games. |
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Steelrails
Joined: 12 Mar 2009
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| Posted: Tue May 08, 2012 4:48 am Post subject: |
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Can you imagine being a Korean and trying to make foreigners happy?
"Loosen up, be spontaneous. Dance in the street or something."
Korean dances in the street.
"No, not to Kpop stuff. Be creative."
Korean does their own dance.
"(Laughs at them) That looks gay. You should dance with some rhythm, like person X"
Korean dances like person X.
"I told you not to copy."
Korean looks exasperated.
"Stop trying to make other people happy, just be yourself."
Korean dances to Kpop.
"Stop dancing to Kpop. Don't copy."
Korean gives up and does a traditional dance.
"Stupid Koreans dancing in the street are always hitting me with their tassles. And its too loud. The street isn't for dancing."
Korean stops dancing, just walks around.
"Your lives are so boring, you should do something like dancing in the street."
People complain about Korea not being like back home, but if it ever were to become like back home, people would whine and complain that its just like back home and head somewhere else.
If Koreans listened to Dave's about how to run their country, half of the people would tell them to listen to Ron Paul, the other half to Timothy Leary, and the other 50% to Mark Zuckerberg.
I think the best thing they can do is just keep on dancin and do what makes em happy.
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| Devil's Advocate: Wait a second, mimicking the manufactured K-pop dance du jour to participate in a mass forced social event isn't conformist? Jeeze that's like saying pep rallies back in high school weren't conformist. |
As opposed to the "rebels" who'd skip the pep rally and all sit around doing the same things, listening to the same music, and reinforcing their own views about the world, then ostracizing anyone who doesn't share that view?
I swear, 30 minutes with a bunch of hippies can be like sitting around with a bunch of business types.
Like the episode of House where he tells the kid with the tattoo "You want to be a rebel? Stop being cool."
Blowing off the pep rally to hang out or smoke weed? Never seen anyone do that before. No one is ever being peer pressured there. Heck, these days it would probably more "rebel" to say "I support the school and hope we do well, especially in the science fair and at chess club". THAT'S someone who isn't worried about fitting in.
Of course that's in an American context. Here in Korea the pep rally is probably a conformist event in certain schools, though I bet in the slacker vocational schools its probably more rebel to go to the event than skip it. |
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DIsbell
Joined: 15 Oct 2008
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| Posted: Tue May 08, 2012 6:56 am Post subject: |
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Does going to the pep rally to be non-conformist make sense?
On meth it does.
Oh the joys of derails-vision, where if you don't think A then you're B (and only B) and obviously B sucks just as much, if not more. |
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