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Ilsanman · Joined: 15 Aug 2003 Location: Bucheon, Korea

Let's not make this a bashing post. Just, if you see something funny happen, post it and share it. I will start.

Today at Seoul station, some old man with a cane was going down the escelator (sp?) and had to scratch behind his ear. He used his cane-carrying arm to do it, and as a result, hit some guy on the next escelator in the face with his cane.

peppermint · Posted: Sun Nov 07, 2004 10:53 pm Post subject:

I was thinking the other day that Korea might be one of the best places for people watching ever. Yesterday, while I was killing time at the bus terminal, I noticed two of the bus drivers both male and mid forties dancing together. One guy actuall twirled the other.

These little bizzare moments are one of the things that I really like about being here actually

The Great Toad · Joined: 12 Jun 2004

Well as I posted before - many of my younger students remind me of squeaky hyper little Elmo characters - in theory they are first year middle school - but in reality some of them have the silly factor of 8-9 year olds.

So as I leave the school as is the case ever and anon I am constantly goodbyed by every punk who sees me... I walked out of the building saw a group of kids said two Goodbyes, in reply to around six incessant goodbye chanting girls, and fixed my attention overloaded brain on another background "Goodbye" reigning like a mallet from on high...

I look up and there is the culprit who has happily finally grasped my attention: one of the louder and more scrappier girls gleefully goodbyeing me with the double bird salute from the second story window. I grinned ruefully at her, and yelled, "Hey you Punk!" At which time she disappeared into the building. However, I will have my revenge tomorrow-though I'm not to be so cruel as to deliver her into the hands of a Korean Stick Master for her gross disrespect of me, the unrivaled English Master of the School - yet I will have her suffer on the floor as she does pushups... hmm I wonder how many pushups a little first year middle school punk girl can do... I could repost tomorrow with a field tested count. These punk kids need to Respect my athoratah, I am way more smarter, goodly, edumacated, and nobler than a fat American Eric Cartman.

d503 · Joined: 16 Oct 2004 Location: Daecheong, Seoul

Today before my fifth grade class started the general pre-class mayhem is going down and we are chatting about the games they are playing what they are doing and the like, when the quiet girl in class turns to me and says, "Teacher I'm a monkey" in all seriousness. I give her a confused look and she promptly pulls her ears out, makes this odd mouth and eye contortion and suddenly she looks like a monkey. I laughed so hard, and she talked in class today which made it all the better.

Ohh I also got laughed at today. WHich amuzed me. I am standing in Carrefour calmly looking at measuring cups when this guy comes up to me. He looks at the measuring cups, looks at me, and laughs hysterically. I give him a confused look and he walks away. I don't know but it made me laugh.

rapier · Joined: 16 Feb 2003

What makes me laff is guys getting blown out by women, or in some way messing up a happening situation... God knows it happens to me enough..still funny though Laughing

shawner88 · Joined: 01 Feb 2003

Saw an all out fight on the subway the other day between and ajushi and ajumma. It went on for 10 stops before I got off. Everyone was dead silent and staring at them.

jajdude · Joined: 18 Jan 2003

One of the best ones I ever saw was on a Friday afternoon a good two years ago. On a subway some old guy was drunk and obnoxious and basically giving people a hard time. I thought maybe he was pissed at me being an "American" or something, but he was just pissed period.

Anyway he was swearing at some stranger Korean guy next to the door of the train...

Next stop. The door opens. Unpleased korean guy pushed the stranger drunk out on his ass... door closes. The look on the drunk guy's face sitting outside as the train went away, was great. Everyone clapped.

eamo · Joined: 08 Mar 2003 Location: Shepherd's Bush, 1964.

Just 20 minutes ago around the corner from my apt.

A new restaurant was doing the usual "Hey, we're open!!!" promotion thing but instead of the usual scantily dressed dancing Domi girls, there's a dwarf dressed as a clown with another clown on bongo's and another on keyboard.

This dwarf guy was singing Bbong-chak (ajumma-ajeossi music) at high volume while manically dancing around the side-walk.

Which I'd been mashed for that one!

captain kirk · Joined: 29 Jan 2003

Saw some funny stuff on the road the weekend before last, six hours Ulsan to Goje, then back the next night.
Was cruising through town in Goje and a guy was drunk lying face down on the road, it looked like, so I was laughing at that. Until I looked around and another guy across the street was saying to a guy walking away, 'stop!'. So the fallen guy had been punched, or kicked.
Traffic was bumper to bumper around Masan on the way back and I was scooting alongside. And saw a cop with his knee in a man face down on the road, cuffing him. The man being cuffed was looking my way, sidelong like a fish, since his neck couldn't move, his mouth sort of grimacing and gaping as the cuffs went tight.
At a small fishing village some fishermen were really drunk, and one was being kicked out. He was drunk and bellowing, but being nudged out of the house compound, out the gate.
In Pusan, bumper to bumper traffic, what looked like some joyriding teens impatient with the jam. They veered really fast in their little car alongside a bus which was changing lanes. Everybody around shocked, big bus horn.

iain77 · Joined: 12 Apr 2004 Location: here, now

The other day I was teaching class. I have this one kid who is smart but also a smartass. Sometimes he is a handful. This was one of those times. He was crawling under the table, onstenibly to get his pencil, pulling the legs of the other kids, I was just about to tell him to get up or get out of the class when he pulled one kids leg, earning him a kick in the face. It was not very hard but totally unexpected, everybody laughed and I gave the other kid a thumbs up, the smartass sat down and was quiet.

mindmetoo · Joined: 02 Feb 2004

I was at a stop light waiting for the cross walk signal. Some Korean guy was also waiting. Suddenly 4 fire trucks came racing down the road. Each took a left turn in front of us. The last one was approaching the intersection when we got the green walk sign. I did the math: if 3 fire trucks all make a left turn in front of me, there's a very very very good chance the 4th is going to make that same turn. Needless to say I stayed planted on the sidewalk. The Korean guy didn't see it that way and started to walk across the road. For all he knew the 4th truck might just be going straight through the intersection on its way to another emergency.

Much to his surprise, the 4th truck also started into its left turn, forcing the guy to run back to the safety of the sidewalk. Where I remained safe and smug.

What in god's name was he thinking?

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Another time I saw a guy back in his car into a spot. There were some metal poles near his driver side door. He eventually returned to his car, carefully opening his driver's side door so as not to bash it against the metal poles. Then he started to pull out of his spot, taking a hard left turn, not giving himself time/room to clear the poles. He seemed to forget the metal poles were still there, the poles he had carefully negotiated to get into his car. Well, it wasn't an attractive sound, the sound of metal scraping metal and paint.

The guy stopped, rolled down his window, observed the problem and gruesome damage, and then sort of casually drove away.

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There seem to be a lot of dwarves in my neighborhood. Once I was sitting with some of my students outside an LJ25. We were having banana milk. A table next to us there were two uniformed middle school girls. Some slightly drunken 50 year old dwarf started trying to pick one of them up, inviting himself to sit at their table.

coulter · Joined: 21 Apr 2004 Location: Gangwon-Do

I did mention this once before, but it fits in here...
A couple months ago, I was walking to the PC bang. On my way I saw 2 small children with their pants down peeing on each other. As I walked by, a third little boy joined in the fun. They were all smiling and laughing as they peed on each other, while their parents watched from a restaurant, eating dinner.

Chaz_Bangalang · Joined: 01 Feb 2004 Location: Seoul

Another important criteria throughout history is that great powers have enough influence to be included in discussions of political and diplomatic questions of the day, and to have influence on the final outcome and resolution.

casey's moon · Joined: 14 Sep 2004 Location: Daejeon

During a field trip during my hagwon year, I saw a group of about 60 kids from another hagwon, all in matching outfits, in the parking lot of the Jeonju Zoo, at the request of their teacher, hike down their pants, crouch down and pee!!!! In the parking lot!!!! Boys too... all crouching and peeing before they boarded the bus. The bus driver in our vehicle was as shocked and amused as me. Laughing

canuckistan · Posted: Tue Nov 09, 2004 4:13 pm Post subject:

There's a Korean lady who owns a school supplies shop right next to the Itaewon elementary school. Lots of stuff for the kids etc. She's also got a fully-grown pet ROOSTER roaming free in and out of the store!
One day I pull up and said rooster is knocking himself out jumping up and down to have a go at the tape used to affix the hoola-hoops to the front door knob, and at the same time having a go at the pigeons that were straying too close to his territory. Hilariously surreal. Only in Korea.