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javis
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How on earth would any Canadian 18 year old have even heard of K-op or K-dramas? I have nephews and nieces in Canada. They've never heard of either. I suspect the OP is pulling our leg. What 18 year-old N. American kid (other than a gyopo) is infatuated with Korea?
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Shoot, back in 2004 I knew a teenage girl who lived in Piedmont, Oklahoma, a city of less than 4,000 people, who had an infatuation with Korea. Anything is possible. |
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F5Waeg
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| Posted: Sun Mar 10, 2013 4:05 am Post subject: |
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| tell her to read this board and other expat blogs first. |
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Hugo85
Joined: 27 Aug 2010
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| Posted: Sun Mar 10, 2013 5:14 am Post subject: |
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| Well she has no skills to get a visa which even college degree holders would find it hard to get so if she wants to move here, she need to be a student. If she wants to be a student, she will need to find a program in English (English litterature i the only one I can think of) or to learn Korean MASSIVELY up to TOPIK level 6 (takes maybe 2 years while living in Korea). Living in Korea and studying in Korea will cost a fair amount of money, but so would studying at home. |
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Smithington
Joined: 14 Dec 2011
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| Posted: Sun Mar 10, 2013 5:26 am Post subject: |
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If she's not coming here to work and save money, why leave the clean streets, polite society and fresh air of Canada for the stench, pollution, litter and rudeness of Korea? Korea is a place to be endured while you make money. Honestly, that's the politest way I can put it. No one in their right mind would want to live here if they weren't employed. Maybe you can introduce her to J-pop. It's just as lame, but she will find herself in a country that is much (much) cleaner without all the negatives that Korea has in bucket-loads. People who need a sanity break from Korea go to Japan. It's more expensive, but it's civilized. There's no comparison between the two countries. If you love your neice direct her towards Japan. Besides summer is coming and most Korean cities will soon stink of sewers and piles of rotten garbage. Not the case in Japan. Japan is the ticket. Korea is still third world. True, it's undoubtedly near the top of the third world countries, but it's still got a long way to go before it's Japan (never mind Canada).
Japan, yes. Korea, no. |
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northway
Joined: 05 Jul 2010
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| Posted: Sun Mar 10, 2013 5:37 am Post subject: |
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| Scorpion wrote: |
How on earth would any Canadian 18 year old have even heard of K-op or K-dramas? I have nephews and nieces in Canada. They've never heard of either. I suspect the OP is pulling our leg. What 18 year-old N. American kid (other than a gyopo) is infatuated with Korea?
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I've known quite a few Koreaphiles, usually aged between 18-25 and from North America. The whole world ain't like the Maritimes. |
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KimchiNinja
Joined: 01 May 2012
Location: Gangnam
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| Posted: Sun Mar 10, 2013 9:01 pm Post subject: |
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| Basically, whenever I try to tell her a bit of the reality of being a young white girl in Asia generally, she always says, "yes I know, but..." |
If she were Korean-Canadian I'd say go for it. I know well-off families whose daughters wanted to spend time in KR, and they had a blast. Of course by having a blast I mean staying out all night, making lots of crazy bad-influence K-friends, spending lots of the parents money, etc. Probably loads of fun for a gyopo.
As a white-chick however she might very well end up alienated from the K-society she worships. But who knows. |
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Lucas
Joined: 11 Sep 2012
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| Posted: Sun Mar 10, 2013 10:15 pm Post subject: |
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| As a white-chick however she might very well end up alienated from the K-society she worships. But who knows. |
Or in a shady Korean gangster filmed porno! |
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le-paul
Joined: 07 Apr 2009
Location: dans la chambre
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| Posted: Sun Mar 10, 2013 10:21 pm Post subject: |
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| Lucas wrote: |
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| As a white-chick however she might very well end up alienated from the K-society she worships. But who knows. |
Or in a shady Korean gangster filmed porno! |
is more likely...
let her come here, it sounds like she needs to grow up a bit. Maybe a
smell of reality will help her do that? |
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Lucas
Joined: 11 Sep 2012
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| Posted: Sun Mar 10, 2013 10:28 pm Post subject: |
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is more likely...
let her come here, it sounds like she needs to grow up a bit. Maybe a
smell of reality will help her do that? |
Don't you mean 'taste'  |
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Moondoggy
Joined: 07 Jun 2011
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| Posted: Sun Mar 10, 2013 10:30 pm Post subject: |
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| le-paul wrote: |
| Lucas wrote: |
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| As a white-chick however she might very well end up alienated from the K-society she worships. But who knows. |
Or in a shady Korean gangster filmed porno! |
is more likely...
let her come here, it sounds like she needs to grow up a bit. Maybe a
smell of reality will help her do that? |
so these f-heads never miss a chance to badmouth korea. |
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Lucas
Joined: 11 Sep 2012
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| Posted: Sun Mar 10, 2013 10:43 pm Post subject: |
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| so these f-heads never miss a chance to badmouth korea. |
Ha ha, I think this might be one of these people that suddenly goes crazy one day and starts shooting everyone!
Just don't do it in your Kia, would hate for you to mess up that paint job! 
PS - make sure they're over 18 before you 'take them for a ride!'  |
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everything-is-everything
Joined: 06 Jun 2011
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| Posted: Sun Mar 10, 2013 10:55 pm Post subject: |
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| I have to say, if the situation were reversed and it was some K-dude's 18 year old Korean niece wanting to go to the US to learn English and live there, everyone would be saying what a great idea it is. Reverse the situation and she might as well be signing her death warrant. |
Ummm...no! You fail here. |
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cdninkorea
Joined: 27 Jan 2006
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Mon Mar 11, 2013 2:30 am Post subject: |
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| everything-is-everything wrote: |
| Steelrails wrote: |
| I have to say, if the situation were reversed and it was some K-dude's 18 year old Korean niece wanting to go to the US to learn English and live there, everyone would be saying what a great idea it is. Reverse the situation and she might as well be signing her death warrant. |
Ummm...no! You fail here. |
How's that? I think he has a point. |
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northway
Joined: 05 Jul 2010
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| Steelrails wrote: |
| I have to say, if the situation were reversed and it was some K-dude's 18 year old Korean niece wanting to go to the US to learn English and live there, everyone would be saying what a great idea it is. Reverse the situation and she might as well be signing her death warrant. |
If I'm advising any 18 year old, I'm going to recommend that they attempt to expand their horizons and open as many doors as possible. While Korea would certainly be an interesting experience, this girl would be chaining herself to a country with relatively limited global scope. Korea shares a language with no one, and for a Western foreigner to spend the entirety of their undergraduate career in the Korean university system seems to be a case of putting all of your eggs in one basket. Is it not at all relevant that many Koreans of a similar age are dying to go to school in the States? |
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PatrickGHBusan
Joined: 24 Jun 2008
Location: Busan (1997-2008) Canada 2008 -
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| Posted: Mon Mar 11, 2013 4:36 am Post subject: |
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How on earth would any Canadian 18 year old have even heard of K-op or K-dramas? I have nephews and nieces in Canada. They've never heard of either. I suspect the OP is pulling our leg. What 18 year-old N. American kid (other than a gyopo) is infatuated with Korea?
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You would be surprised..... |
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