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[Steelrails]

People should just be consistent. If they are bothered by slurping, fine. Don't hang around people that do it. Label people who do it as peasants or barbarians. But they shouldn't be upset if that in turn is applied to them when they do something.

The other side is to tolerate slurping because you know you probably do something that disgusts someone else and you hope that they tolerate it as well.

There's advantages and disadvantages to both. But if one does not choose to do one or the other, that's pretty unfair.

[atwood]

[chickenpie]

Well, what can I say!

Fucking perfect.

GILF generation!

This is real Korean Kulture. http://klownisms.wordpress.com/

Korea. Infallible nation of wonder and caring. Promised land of modern humanity.

Korea. Sparkling.

Klowns are amazingly quick to point out others’ faults. The alacrity with which a Klown will comment on a personal flaw is astounding. There is no sense of shame or decency involved. You have grey hair? “Hey! You have grey hair!” You’re fat? “Hey! You’re fat!”

This is level of social skill exhibited by most preschoolers, still dumbfoundedly figuring out the ways of the world with a finger jammed two knuckles deep up one nostril and a bit of breakfast still smeared across the cheek. Aspergers-y, like much of Klown Kulture, though unlike Klowns, the preschooler grows out of that awkward, socially-inept stage around age 4 or 5 while the Klown remains at the same level of social development until death (generally via lung cancer, cirrhosis of the liver, traffic “accident” or the ever popular suicide). Klown Kulture is as delicate, intricate, nuanced and refined as a spastic rhinoceros playing Mozart on a baby grand piano… there’s a piano somewhere there, sure, but it’s all a pile of splinters, saliva and snapped wires. When your childhood is spent locked in a small room ticking off A, B, C or D for 15 hours a day solely to serve a standardized testing system that was developed centuries ago, your young adulthood is spent getting blackout drunk and either serving in the military or whoring yourself for a purse and your adulthood is spent in a perpetual state of hangover and company servitude or spousal loathing and shallow materialism… well that doesn’t really encourage personal development and self-actualization in the form of hobbies, friendships based on anything other than “date of manufacture” or social growth. In fact, the Klown system is set up deliberately to discourage such personal development as instances of just that upset the Human Centipede. So while human nature is to be critical and Klowns cannot be self-critical for fear of growth and development, the outlet must be to find fault with others.

[joelove]

He's got a point. It doesn't go very far into human nature or psychology, really, but it sums up a lot of Korean culture. As an outsider who has had years of experience with the culture, it's hard to disagree. I think he uses the word "Klown" not to disparage the entire nation or all its people, where of course many fine people live, so much as the defenders, the unwilling to admit flaws where so many are glaring. And why should anyone be offended? What is being hurt? Your national pride? This idea you have wrapped all over yourself?

Or maybe it's a lot of projection. You can point out ugly facts for any country I suppose. I don't see why anyone should be hurt. But when you invest yourself into nationalism you're already lost. There is conflict there. Unfortunately that is how we live: defending ideas. It's very empty. When you are set upon being a particular thing, you'll never just be a human being, with no opposition. I suppose that's just an ideal too. Out of the interest in illusory comfort, we go right down to the self, the very basis of division and conflict. My nation, my belief, my god or whatever, and all that. We will always be at war over these things. Human beings are idiots.

[Los Angeloser]

If nothing else, here is the BBC link provided by the blog the OP directed us to which was written by Lucy Williamson on 9th of June 2014. It's somewhat of a long article(2 pages), so I'll copy/paste maybe one of the pages with PICS...

"The Korean grandmothers who sell sex"
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-27189951
"Koreans could once be sure that their children would look after them in their old age, but no longer - many of those who worked hard to transform the country's economy find the next generation has other spending priorities. As a result, some elderly women are turning to prostitution.

Kim Eun-ja sits on the steps at Seoul's Jongno-3 subway station, scanning the scene in front of her. The 71-year-old's bright lipstick and shiny red coat stand out against her papery skin.

Beside her is a large bag, from which comes the clink of glass bottles as she shifts on the cold concrete.

Mrs Kim is one of South Korea's "Bacchus Ladies" - older women who make a living by selling tiny bottles of the popular Bacchus energy drink to male customers.

But often that's not all they're selling. At an age when Korean grandmothers are supposed to be venerated as matriarchs, some are selling sex.

"You see those Bacchus Ladies standing over there?" she asks me. "Those ladies sell more than Bacchus. They sometimes go out with the grandpas and earn money from them. But I don't make a living like that.

"Men do proposition me when I'm standing in the alleyway," she adds. "But I always say, 'No.'"

Mrs Kim says she makes about 5,000 Won ($5, or £3) a day selling the drinks. "Drink up fast," she says. "The police are always watching me. They don't differentiate."

The centre of this underground sex trade is a nearby park in the heart of Seoul. Jongmyo Park is a place where elderly men come to while away their sunset years with a little chess and some local gossip."

[fermentation]

I'm thoroughly enjoying this blog.

[Lucas]

[cj1976]

I don't understand why some people become so consumed by their hatred for Korea. It isn't exactly a modern utopia, and can be frustrating but it's nowhere near as bad as they say. I went through a phase of complaining about Korea, but I realised how very little fun I was to be around. Someone quite rightly pointed out how much of a whiney little girl I sounded like, and how irritating I was. I was constantly looking for something to bitch about, so I was always unhappy. That starts to take its emotional toll after a while.
Relax and grow a thicker skin or you will end up a basket case.

[hiamnotcool]

[atwood]

[Steelrails]

According to a segment of the Dave's basher crowd, AES and Korea Sentry are hate sites filled with intolerance (which they are) but this Klown blog is an entertaining and well thought out take in Korean culture.

If you swapped the word klown with 'black' or 'English Teacher', people would be apoplectic and denounce it as racist. Methinks some on this board are not as enlightened or as immune to the very same racist impulses they denounce in ajosshis as they would like to believe.

For the record, the mainstream apologists have all denounced AES and Korea Sentry. Many bashers have not. No, the two sides are not mirrors of each other.

[happiness]

[atwood]

[Mr. BlackCat]

[atwood]