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[schwa]

In my experience in numerous teachers' offices in Korean schools, almost all the teachers step outside the office into the hall, an empty room, or outside to conduct personal phone calls. Nothing to do with language, just a common courtesy.

[nate1983]

[joelove]

One reason phone calls can be annoying in any language is that you're hearing just one speaker, or so I read once. Seems to be what annoys people more is not when it just appears rude in a situation, but hearing just one side. Also, foreign language does annoy people too sometimes when they don't understand it well.

[Weigookin74]

[LeaforKorea]

I appreciate the lesson learned here everyone.

I will make sure to stay away from the "I just wanna complain about things" threads from now on.

My mistake.

[johnny_russian]

i was sitting in the cafeteria having lunch with my co-teacher a few weeks ago. we were talking to each other, and one of the other teachers sitting next to us gets up and moves, and says something in korean to my co-teacher. she told me he said that he didn't like that we were speaking so much english.

a month or two before that, i was in a cab with some of my friends, including a korean-american friend of mine who speaks fluent korean. everyone was talking in english, and the cab-driver said to my korean-american friend that she must tell everyone in the cab to be quiet because he doesn't like hearing english.

in both of these incidents the koreans explicitly said that they didn't want to hear english - it had nothing at all to do with the volume of speech.

[teacherbunny]

part of the reason is because they want to know what they are talking about..
but because they cant understand they get annoyed..
sometimes it is because the person is noisy..
but esspecially for the older generation..it is because they are nosey and want to know what you are saying

[BackRow]

they also get offended if you as a foreigner seem to know too much korean

[Waygeek]

[Julius]

[numb]

Ye I have been on the subway the bus and people look at me because I have my music loud in my ears, or if Im talking on the phone in the bus, they can look crazy all they want but I will not be conformed to there slave ,. dont koreans forget, that we are foriegners,,, and we are not korean, and when they come to america, we dont tell them to speak in english, no we are a free country and treat everyone equal, Koreans bite the hand that feeds them.

Im soo tired Koreans complain about foriegners speaking in english or our music is too loud or they get mad if a some one is talking on the phone, they need to get a life and learn more about common sence, and quit being racist, bigots, against foriegners. Play that comformist stulff to your own people, not us!!!

And no, its not a territory thing, americans dont do that, Koreans are just plane Narrcisistic, and bigots against anybody who is not like them, dress the same, talke the same get plastic surgery, and look the same,
then koreans do the altimate thing, is turning a foriegner as a puppet to treat other foriegners like Koreans. So please be quiet about territory, what a stupid comment.

[Waygeek]

[Weigookin74]

[3DR]

[3DR]

The basis of the problem is that so many foreigners here are in the minority for the first time, that they literally do not know how to handle it. It is freaking them out.