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bobbyhanlon
Joined: 09 Nov 2003 Location: 서울
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Posted: Thu Jun 07, 2012 5:36 am Post subject: haeundae, dongbaek-seom: 'i am the president of a company' |
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yesterday i was walking around haeundae, busan (the dongbaek island part) when a fairly old korean guy named mr. cho came up to me and engaged me in one of those 'where do you come from?' etc. conversations. it suddenly dawned on me that the last time i was here - over a year ago - i'd had the exact same conversation with the very same person. he asked me how long i'd been here, told me i was 'almost korean', said i should move to busan, and told me about his job as 'the president of a company, in import-export'. each time he was just standing around waiting for a waegukin like me to appear, rather than actually doing something.
just for the sake of curiosity, have many of you folks met this character? i often wonder about the lives of people like this and the 'say-say-say' guy at suwon station... |
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jfromtheway
Joined: 20 Nov 2010
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Posted: Thu Jun 07, 2012 7:07 pm Post subject: |
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That reminds me of this little old Korean man who walks around my school for exercise and keeps running me down as I'm leaving on my odd days. He has a Phd in Economics and showed me his USC professor ID, as he used to teach there. The guy is like 70 but all he talks about is banging chicks. He'll literally talk about how much skirt he used to slay for 20 minutes straight then tells me that we should go out mongering together. I'm tempted to take him up on it just to get an experience out of it but I've taken the back door out a couple times just to avoid the guy. He mannerisms and way of talking remind me of some Italian stereotype but he's a little old Asian guy. "I've had Israili, Japanese, American, you name it. Ya know, guys like us... never happy with just one woman, eh? Know what I'm sayin'?" then bursts into laughter and hits me on the arm. He's a character. |
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pegasus64128

Joined: 20 Aug 2011
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Posted: Thu Jun 07, 2012 8:08 pm Post subject: |
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jfromtheway wrote: |
That reminds me of this little old Korean man who walks around my school for exercise and keeps running me down as I'm leaving on my odd days. He has a Phd in Economics and showed me his USC professor ID, as he used to teach there. The guy is like 70 but all he talks about is banging chicks. He'll literally talk about how much skirt he used to slay for 20 minutes straight then tells me that we should go out mongering together. I'm tempted to take him up on it just to get an experience out of it but I've taken the back door out a couple times just to avoid the guy. He mannerisms and way of talking remind me of some Italian stereotype but he's a little old Asian guy. "I've had Israili, Japanese, American, you name it. Ya know, guys like us... never happy with just one woman, eh? Know what I'm sayin'?" then bursts into laughter and hits me on the arm. He's a character. |
He probably has recording equipment in his pocket and works for Arirang or MbZ |
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nathanrutledge
Joined: 01 May 2008 Location: Marakesh
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Posted: Thu Jun 07, 2012 10:50 pm Post subject: |
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pegasus64128 wrote: |
jfromtheway wrote: |
That reminds me of this little old Korean man who walks around my school for exercise and keeps running me down as I'm leaving on my odd days. He has a Phd in Economics and showed me his USC professor ID, as he used to teach there. The guy is like 70 but all he talks about is banging chicks. He'll literally talk about how much skirt he used to slay for 20 minutes straight then tells me that we should go out mongering together. I'm tempted to take him up on it just to get an experience out of it but I've taken the back door out a couple times just to avoid the guy. He mannerisms and way of talking remind me of some Italian stereotype but he's a little old Asian guy. "I've had Israili, Japanese, American, you name it. Ya know, guys like us... never happy with just one woman, eh? Know what I'm sayin'?" then bursts into laughter and hits me on the arm. He's a character. |
He probably has recording equipment in his pocket and works for Arirang or MbZ |
Hater. |
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happiness
Joined: 04 Sep 2010
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Posted: Fri Jun 08, 2012 6:34 pm Post subject: Re: haeundae, dongbaek-seom: 'i am the president of a compan |
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bobbyhanlon wrote: |
yesterday i was walking around haeundae, busan (the dongbaek island part) when a fairly old korean guy named mr. cho came up to me and engaged me in one of those 'where do you come from?' etc. conversations. it suddenly dawned on me that the last time i was here - over a year ago - i'd had the exact same conversation with the very same person. he asked me how long i'd been here, told me i was 'almost korean', said i should move to busan, and told me about his job as 'the president of a company, in import-export'. each time he was just standing around waiting for a waegukin like me to appear, rather than actually doing something.
just for the sake of curiosity, have many of you folks met this character? i often wonder about the lives of people like this and the 'say-say-say' guy at suwon station... |
doing things isnt really a thing here, BEING someone (president, etc) and being seen is more the thing, pretty much the only thing...that title..
me, id rather make money and be a nobody |
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