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The Bobster
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
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 Posted: Wed Oct 20, 2004 5:56 pm Post subject: |
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| I dont really see my post as being clueless or naive. |
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| Personally I dont really find korea to be that different when it comes to everyday things..My life here is pretty much the same as it was at home, save the fact that there arent quite so many white folks here. |
Look, I don't know you, and I take no pleasure from insulting you, so I'm trying to do that here. These two statements inside the same post say everything I might need to.
Korea is VERY different from back home, in so VERY many ways. Your job now is to discover exactly HOW many ways and exactly to what extent things are different, and to do so before the fact of this nuts you in ways you never would have suspected.
Just to be clear : I like Korea, hell, I LOVE it here, and a whole of the things that are different are things that I like. Hope you can find that to be the case as well.
And I'm not trying to insult you. Let's leave that part of it as it is. |
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edgellskiuk
Joined: 21 Jun 2004
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Wed Oct 20, 2004 6:11 pm Post subject: |
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Bobster,
I think Korea is different but I would not say very different in my experience. I think it is as different as you allow it to be.
I have found all countries I have lived in, Korea is no more no less different from home. I get into my routine and then is just another home and maybe I do not notice the differences as I let them wash over me without much thought. |
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Css
Joined: 27 Sep 2004
Location: South of the river
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| Posted: Wed Oct 20, 2004 10:53 pm Post subject: |
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| The Bobster wrote: |
Look, I don't know you |
Ive been here just over a month now, ill admit its no time at all...although sadly its already going too fast  but so far, my life here is almost exactly as it was back home...The same things each day, the same concerns and worries, the same enjoyable things.
People are pretty much the same the world over.
The only sizable differences ive noticed so far are the language and the relative lack of violence.
and dont worry, i dont take offence to many things  |
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The Bobster
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Thu Oct 21, 2004 9:17 am Post subject: |
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| edgellskiuk wrote: |
| I get into my routine and then is just another home and maybe I do not notice the differences as I let them wash over me without much thought. |
You are saying that your LIFE in Korea is not a lot different from back home. Might be because you are focused on work, and when you stop doing that you hang with some other waygooks you know, then maybe turn on AFN, watch a Hollywood movie and resort to the internet a bit later.
This is very different from saying that Korea is not different - except in the way the previous poster said, very accurately "in my experience."
It just might mean that you haven't gotten around to experience Korea.
Yet.
There is a lot here is imbued with the essence of joy and wonder and the ineffable, shall I call it mystery, of things that our rational minds will know that we will always only partially understand. However strange this may sound, that is the good part.
The bad part is when some aspect of the matrix pops up and bites you in the gluteal and you are left wondering long after just what was going on with that ... and if you can maintain the same sense of wonder and mystery at that moment, then you might have a chance at this place.
Again, I'm coming off as all arrogant that I know more than people who have been here a short time, which I said before is why I swore off coming around these other forums.
Anyway, things are different here. They have subways and taxis and schools and banks but the things people do inside of those places are not the same as back home. Be aware of it and keep an eye out to learn something new every day.
Learning something new every day is one reason I'm still hanging around. |
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edgellskiuk
Joined: 21 Jun 2004
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Thu Oct 21, 2004 2:49 pm Post subject: |
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| You are saying that your LIFE in Korea is not a lot different from back home. Might be because you are focused on work, and when you stop doing that you hang with some other waygooks you know, then maybe turn on AFN, watch a Hollywood movie and resort to the internet a bit later. |
I must admit, I do concentrate on work a lot, because that is what I am paid to do. Also with the number of time zones I have to deal with my job does take up a lot of my time. As to hanging round with waygooks in this you are far from correct, I can count the number of waygooks I have met on one hand.The number of times I have met these waygooks can also be counted in single figures
I was not disputing Korea was different, I was saying "I think" it is not as different as a lot of people make it out to be .Maybe I am just a jaded expat business man though, so placements elsewhere have numbed me to a lot of difficulties and differences in Korea. |
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