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Draven · Joined: 03 Feb 2003

While the "Land of the Morning Calm" may be an appropriate slogan for Korea (I don't know, I'm not up early enough to check, for the most part Very Happy

), I wonder if anyone can come up with anything a little more accurate. I realize that the ones I've come up with lack, ahem, a certain 'poetic elegance,' but I'm just spitballing here...Perhaps you can do better.

The Land of the Perennial Haze; You May Not See Blue Sky for Weeks!
The Land of the Ugly Apartment Complexes
The Land of Dangerous Taxi (feel free to substitute Bus here) Drivers
Come Enjoy the Oooh's and Aaaah's on All Our T.V. Variety Shows
The Land of the Painted Big Toe (and big toes only!)
The Land of Too Many People Too Close Together
Korea, the Home of Hot Women and Effeminate Men
Come to Korea, We Have the Highest Rate of Traffic Fatalities....In the World!!!
Korea, Way Less People than China, But You'll Hardly Notice!
Visit Korea, Your Snot Will Be Browner Than It Ever Has Been
Korea, Foreigners Welcome, as Long as They're White
The Land of Cheap Smokes and Soju
If You're a Man, You Can P*iss (feel free to substitute Vomit here) in the Street!
In Korea, We Make Our Kids Study Too Much!

Damn, this has been floating around in my head for a few days and I can't seem to remember any of the 'good' ones I came up with on those taxi rides to work Wink

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Anyways, I challenge all to come up with some more, and no, they needn't be negative although I realize most of mine are. C'mon, it's Sunday night and I've been working all weekend, what do you expect?

chi-chi · Joined: 15 Jan 2003

The Land of the Morning Dong
The Land of the Morning Phelgm

mack the knife · Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Location: standing right behind you...

Land of the heinous sunglasses
Land of the consumable embalming fluid
Land of the idling car
Land of the shrimp burger
Land of the busted eardrums
Land of the Nike monks
Land of the androgynous boy band
Land of the bush-less porn (as opposed to America, Land of the porn-less Bush)
Land of the machine-gun beach party

bignate · Joined: 30 Apr 2003 Location: Hell's Ditch

Land of the Padded Bra.

Land of the morning Stench.

Land of the Ajuma. (Forget Godzilla!)

Land of the Oh-chun-c.c. pitcher! Very Happy

Korea: where "Rat" dogs are pets and real dogs are soup!

The land where ever discussion contains the word Whey?

Come to Korea: Where prostitution is legally illegal and the hookers wear wedding dresses! Shocked

Squaffy · Joined: 25 Feb 2003 Location: All over the place

The land of puke on the side-walk

The land of kitty eaters

The land of (no, I can't say it, cos it's too foul)

The Lemon · Joined: 11 Jan 2003

I've had this one floating around my head for years:

"Korea Has One Song".

At any given time, the same "hit" will be playing over again in every store, every bus radio, every sidewalk CD vendor... the song will be inescapable. Then after two or three weeks, it (as well as the song's singer) disappears, and a new song becomes the One Song, to the exclusion of any others. A Korean Top 30 list is a joke - it should just be the Top One. That's all they've got. One song.

I refuse to believe that it's because the masses love the One Song. It seems like the industry is so controlled, someone somewhere decides what song gets to be the One Song long before people hear it. And people dutifully go out and buy it because they're told, "this is the big hit".

jaderedux · Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Location: Lurking outside Seoul

Ummm....idea for tourist poster...

It's beautiful...
We have mountains....clean air... Beautiful palaces but really its just for us.
So just send some money because foriegners really make us nervous....

Sorry couldn't help myself. After being stared at or should I say GLARED AT by some crazed adjuma on the bus today ...was with my Korean BF...I look out the window and see....Happy smiling poster....KOREA WELCOMES THE WORLD....uh yeah right! Rolling Eyes

Somedays it's paradise some days .....where the hell is my gun.

jade

kimcheeking · Guest

Watch out for street pizza's every morning.

Land of the immature

Zyzyfer · Posted: Sun May 11, 2003 5:26 pm Post subject:

dutchman · Joined: 23 Jan 2003 Location: My backyard

The Land of Opportunity

(No, it's not a joke)

Sliver · Joined: 04 May 2003 Location: The third dimension

Land of Canadians with maple leaf badges

Land of Koreans with Stars and Stripes badges

Land where I am learning many things and becoming confused by more.

Igen_Weir · Joined: 09 Feb 2003

Korea: Cars in a constant state of crash.

Korea: Patents not pending.

Korea: A concrete lovers paradise.

Korea: Never feel like you're outside.

Korea: Not quite up to code.

Korea: Reduced for quick sale.

Korea: A nation in the slighty dented bin.

Korea: Where 70's synthpop came to die.

South Korea: Putting the "pen" back in pennisula.

South Korea: The country that never sleeps, just naps a lot.

South Korea: More Kims then you can shake a stick at.

South Korea: Where East meets West and North meets South and digs in for 50 years.

South Korea: Even more picked cabbage then even Germany!

The Land of Morning Knock-Offs

The Land of Bodily Fluids

The Land of ununiform Uniformity.

The Land of the Industrial Accident.

The Land of the Big, Ugly and Same.

Korea: The Land that puts the "Land" in Landmine.

Korea: A PC gamer's paradise.

lawyertood · Posted: Mon May 12, 2003 2:23 am Post subject:

How about:

"Korea: We have fewer unemployed Canadians than Canada!"

"Korea: A country with a very long history and an even longer memory."

My idea for a name for a Catholic Church in Korea

"Our Lady of the Perpetual Whine/Whinge"

gypsyfish · Joined: 17 Jan 2003 Location: Seoul

"Hello!" posted three steps behind you.

The Lemon · Joined: 11 Jan 2003