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SHGator428
Joined: 05 Sep 2014
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 Posted: Fri Oct 10, 2014 7:59 pm Post subject: Re: I've got it: Why Korea is such a frustrating country |
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| KimchiNinja wrote: |
| Koreans don't care about me or what I say on this board. |
I agree. |
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Brooks
Joined: 08 Apr 2003
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| Posted: Sat Oct 11, 2014 12:51 am Post subject: |
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It is like Sysyphus rolling the boulder up the hill. At some point it will roll down and Sysyphus has to start over.
The frustration occurs when we do not predict the coming frustration.
If you like the exercise and the view it is OK. |
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Chaparrastique
Joined: 01 Jan 2014
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| Posted: Sat Oct 11, 2014 7:22 am Post subject: |
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| Who's Your Daddy? wrote: |
The reason I found Korea frustrating was it was obviously ignorant, but was arrogant at the same time. |
I totally agree, but then it occurs to me you find the same phenomenon just about everywhere in the first world. |
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Stain
Joined: 08 Jan 2014
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| Posted: Sat Oct 11, 2014 7:48 am Post subject: |
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| Chaparrastique wrote: |
| Who's Your Daddy? wrote: |
The reason I found Korea frustrating was it was obviously ignorant, but was arrogant at the same time. |
I totally agree, but then it occurs to me you find the same phenomenon just about everywhere in the first world. |
You find it all over the world. Everybody needs to have some pride. And people are desperate to get it anywhere they can. It helps them get up in the morning. Although, in first world countries, many would laugh at what I wrote. Or give me the finger. |
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KimchiNinja
Joined: 01 May 2012
Location: Gangnam
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| Posted: Sat Oct 11, 2014 4:36 pm Post subject: |
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| Who's Your Daddy? wrote: |
The reason I found Korea frustrating was it was obviously ignorant, but was arrogant at the same time. |
Hmm, sounds just like Americans -- aggressively ignorant!  |
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Weigookin74
Joined: 26 Oct 2009
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| Posted: Wed Oct 15, 2014 3:51 pm Post subject: |
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| It's frustrating because we keep forgetting to check our common sense at Incheon Airport. |
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Roman Holiday
Joined: 22 Sep 2014
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| Posted: Wed Oct 15, 2014 5:17 pm Post subject: |
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| Weigookin74 wrote: |
| It's frustrating because we keep forgetting to check our common sense at Incheon Airport. |
I will be called 'weigookin', and Korea will remain thoroughly foreign to me. Korean culture will be a game, and Seoul will be my 'matrix' for a few years. So best to learn the language. Those are the realities. 
Here in New Zealand the other day, I was referred to as 'weigookin' at a Korean run hairdresser's.  |
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Zyzyfer
Joined: 29 Jan 2003
Location: who, what, where, when, why, how?
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| Posted: Wed Oct 15, 2014 6:39 pm Post subject: |
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| Steelrails wrote: |
| I dont know about mountains, but I do know that resurrecting an 8-year old thread for venting purposes is the pits. |
Indeed. Especially for something as mundane as stating that the coffee options have improved.
Although, it's kind of cool seeing posts from all these old hands.
*goes back to lurking* |
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Lucas
Joined: 11 Sep 2012
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| Posted: Wed Oct 15, 2014 7:06 pm Post subject: |
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| Although, it's kind of cool seeing posts from all these old hands. |
I wonder what percentage of them were pedophiles?  |
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PRagic
Joined: 24 Feb 2006
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| Posted: Wed Oct 15, 2014 9:07 pm Post subject: |
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| A more apt title for the thread would have been 'Culture Shock: Overcoming the Beginning Stages...or Not'. |
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KimchiNinja
Joined: 01 May 2012
Location: Gangnam
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| Posted: Wed Oct 15, 2014 9:31 pm Post subject: |
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| PRagic wrote: |
| A more apt title for the thread would have been 'Culture Shock: Overcoming the Beginning Stages...or Not'. |
Nice one. |
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trueblue
Joined: 15 Jun 2014
Location: In between the lines
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| Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2014 3:24 am Post subject: |
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I will be called 'weigookin', and Korea will remain thoroughly foreign to me. Korean culture will be a game, and Seoul will be my 'matrix' for a few years. So best to learn the language. Those are the realities. Cool
Here in New Zealand the other day, I was referred to as 'weigookin' at a Korean run hairdresser's. Laughing |
I saw that happen a few times back home...for some reason, I took great pleasure in providing them some on the spot correction.
They still looked confused. |
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Roman Holiday
Joined: 22 Sep 2014
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| Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2014 1:42 pm Post subject: |
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I will be called 'weigookin', and Korea will remain thoroughly foreign to me. Korean culture will be a game, and Seoul will be my 'matrix' for a few years. So best to learn the language. Those are the realities. Cool
Here in New Zealand the other day, I was referred to as 'weigookin' at a Korean run hairdresser's. Laughing |
I saw that happen a few times back home...for some reason, I took great pleasure in providing them some on the spot correction.
They still looked confused. |
Yes, I said something like 'cho nin weigookin an e a yo. Kiwi sadam e a yo'. Cue blank stares. You might as well be speaking another language.
Koreans are a different breed. That's not a moral criticism, just the facts. It's only once you cut through all the cultural baggage and get down to the level of friendship that you can begin to communicate.
I'd contend that there would be much lower rates of culture shock if new entrants took all culture, their own as well as Korean, with a heavy dosage of salt. One wouldn't then be floundering about for 'normativity' as all cultures would be considered a bit eccentric and abnormal though often in opposite ways.
What is central is the existential individual. This is no mere metaphysical conceit, but a universal idea stretching back to the founding of western civilization where mind rationally communicates with mind. Perhaps the internet forum will be the swan song of this long tradition.  |
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northway
Joined: 05 Jul 2010
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| Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2014 2:15 pm Post subject: |
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I will be called 'weigookin', and Korea will remain thoroughly foreign to me. Korean culture will be a game, and Seoul will be my 'matrix' for a few years. So best to learn the language. Those are the realities. Cool
Here in New Zealand the other day, I was referred to as 'weigookin' at a Korean run hairdresser's. Laughing |
I saw that happen a few times back home...for some reason, I took great pleasure in providing them some on the spot correction.
They still looked confused. |
Except you're the one who's wrong. Start thinking of Koreans like Jews and it will make more sense. You're a foreigner until you miraculously turn into a Korean. You can be born elsewhere and be Korean, and you can be born in Korea of foreign parents and you will never be Korean. |
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Chaparrastique
Joined: 01 Jan 2014
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| Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2014 6:12 pm Post subject: |
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| Why Korea is such a frustrating country |
its something to do with a lot of unhappy people trying to make everyone else unhappy.
There is no such thing as "live and let live" in this country. |
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