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[Len8]

Picked these konglish Korean jokes up from my dtudents

What country has 4 arms? Nepal (Ne =4 and pal =arm)

What country has a big nose? Mexico (Mexi=Maxi and co or koh=nose)

What country is the fighting country? Chile ( Korean word with same sound means "to fight")

Where do cows go? Uganda (the "U" sound means cow and the "kanda" is the same as "ka da" or to go in Korean)

Why is Korean toilet paper so big? Because it's HUGEEE

When you roll on the floor what country are you visiting? (Bangaladesh. Bang is similar to "pang" or room and the "ladesh"sound in Korean means to roll)

If anyone has heard of any more Konglish jokes like these please add them to the list

split from how much korean can you speak? by kimcheeking

[Horangi Munshin]

What did you do in the weekend?

"I went to Bangkok" bang=room gok=corner. so..
"I went to the corner of the room".

One student loves telling me the Banggok and Bangladeshi ones

[Medic]

Korean Lisp

So there was this guy named Mung, right. He was a pretty miserable guy to start out with. Kids at school made fun of him, his mom made fun of him, even his dog wouldn't play with him. But there was some luck.

One day, he met this girl who he thought was perfect for him. She was made fun of at school, too. because she had a lisp. But when he approached her, she spurned him. This upset him greatly. Even some girl who nobody liked didn't even like him. He was so upset that he decided to go jump off the local bridge.

As he stood at the edge, thinking about his miserable life, the girl saw him standing there. In a last minute attempt to save a life, she shouted out, "Dun' go, Mung!" (Korean translation: 'Butthole.")

It was the last straw for poor Mung who plunged into the rive

Dong or Dung is Sh-t, and mung is hole. The young kids use the term dongumang quite a lot, and in Korean it's not as offensive as it is in English. In English of course it's ars--ole. Took me a while to get a handle on this one, but when I tell it to some of my university students they laugh their heads off.

[kimcheeking]

Which fish goes to school? the kodungoh Kodung is like highschool and oh is fish.

[mokpochica]

There's one that goes something like this:
What did the mother turkey say to the baby turkey? Gobble-jima
(Like don't be silly-ggabuljima). Maybe good for a Thanksgiving lesson.

Didn't someone post a link to a Konglish jokes page a while ago?

[Len8]

I would really like to know of such a link

[bignate]

A father and six year old son go down to Incheon harbour and are looking at some ships as they pass.

The little boy, who has been taking english lessons says, "Father, what is that called in English?"

The father says very proudly, "That is a ship."

"Ohh," says the boy amazed at his father's brilliance.

They continue to look at all the ships passing until the boy notices a very small boat passing.

He says, "Father look, a Ship's-agee!"

[homer521]

What did the lady say about the cute kid with no ear?
ghee ohpda (cute)
ghee (ear) ohpda (without/less)

What does a vampire drink in the morning?
kohpee (coffee) (blood)

What sound did the loaf of bread make when thrown against the wall?
pahng! (bread)

[Cedar]

This little Korean boy goes to visit America for the first time. He and his family are staying with some Americanized relatives. For the little boy conversation is a bit tough, since his cousins speak only English, but he gets by with a lot of activities and simple words. One day an American cousin suggests they go canoeing on the lake (without adult permission). Neither one of them can swim and sure enough the canoe tips over.

So why one drowns first? The American or the Korean?

The American. Because the American is shouting "help, help" and swallowing water, but the Korean is shouting "hel-puh, hel-puh" and spitting it back out.

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I actually used to use this joke (modified from the above to be all past tense) as a short past tense lesson for my middle school girls. They all found it very funny.

[NearlyKorean]

What do you call a person who teaches fish?

A Saeng-song nim.



my kids loved it...

[wormholes101]

[lawyertood]

Variation on a stupid joke my stepfather used to tell:


Two Japanese boys, Toshi and Tashi, are sitting in a boat, Toshi jumps into the water. Who is still in the boat?

Tashi!

Okay......Two Japanese boys, Toshi and Tashi, are sitting in a boat, Toshi jumps into the water. Who is still in the boat?

{Groan}

[Len8]

There is a joke out about the country Saipan. In Korea the "Sai" sound means "in between" in English, so your in between something when you are in Saipan.
I don't know what the "pan" sound means. Still trying to figure it out.

[Medic]

Picked this joke up

What is the 5,2 vegetable? The cucummber.

Why? in Korean cucumber is oh e which could be translated as oh=5, and e=2

[Hyalucent]

Funniest one that occurs to me, having heard it from my students, is when I asked one what he did on the weekend and he replied, "I went to Bangkok."

Bang= Room
Kok= Corner

He stayed at home and had been punished all weekend