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[Ilsanman]

Ok I got a new one.

Today, riding the subway from Itaewon to Gongdeok, there was a man standing in front of the crippled seats. He has a pack of cigarettes balanced on his bald head, and he was singing a traditional, upbeat type of Korean song, while snapping his fingers and stomping one foot.

The other passengers were staring as I shook my head. Only in Korea.

[shawner88]

Someone was selling gloves on the train for 1,000 won/pair yesterday. This halmoni must have been planted there. She bought the gloves, put them on and started raving about how great they were, showing everybody.

[Sliver]

[desultude]

[The Bobster]

[kermo]

World Cup: Korea versus Maldives. As the endless handshaking and solemn nodding goes on and on, some Korean guys dressed in black are conferring -- perhaps the managers? The shot lingers on them, and a little puff of smoke appears in the corner, travelling slowly and gracefull at a diagonal across the screen, revealing itself to be a perfect smoke ring. It disappears, but the culprit is never shown.

[PEIGUY]

walking through the bottom portion of the Hyundai Dept. Store in Omokgyo and see this women with her dog (not an uncommon site in Korea) but unbeknown to the owner the dog stops and starts to take a dump right on the floor!. The look on her face was priceless, i started to laugh out loud and walked away...

Same place.. the next day. I was walking to check out a Bandi and Lunds bookstore. As i exitited the store and i seen an ajuma on a little motorized cleaner machine run full force into the window of the Pizza Hut and what happened next soundedl ike a shot was fired the whole window smashed!!! (it was around 11:30) so the restaraunt was not full... i don't k now what she was thinking but the look on her face afterwards was the look of "oh crap" again i laughed out loud whilst the ajuma and a manager from pizza hut and the dept store security all look at the window in disbelief...

[PECisDplace2B]

The beginner Kinder class all look up and spit trying to catch it in their mouths again. They fail and are left with spit all over their faces. The next day, they are spitting at eachother's faces...trying to get it into their friend's mouths. I think that is both the funniest and grossest thing.

Did I do crazy stuff like that when I was that age???

[PECisDplace2B]

I got another. Passed on by a fellow teacher. Her Kinder class were playing the Alphabet magnet fishing game...and she mentioned to her class that they didn't have water for the fish. She left the room for a minute and when she gets back, the kids are so happy and proud and they point and say "Look teacher, we make water!!" And in the middle of the room is a big yellow puddle.

[mithridates]

This is a Japan story, but it must be told. I had parked my car and was walking towards the kindergarten where I used to teach. I would park the car a little ways back so nobody would see me and I could listen to KBS for a few minutes out of sight of the kids.
Anyway, on the way to school I walk by a house where an 80-something year old tiny grandma is standing in front of her house. She hasn't seen me yet. Then, for some reason, she drops her pants! She was still standing there, not trying to do anything weird, just drops her pants. That's when I came into view and she gives me a hard stare as I walk by like I'm the person who's being weird, with her pants still hanging around her ankles.

[chronicpride]

Are you sure she didn't see you approaching before she dropped her pants?

[skinhead]

That avatar is ...

[Ilsanman]

Ok last night, me and my buddy were walking in �ع���, towards ����� station, from ���� tower.

On the side of the road, there was a guy who wanted to take a piss. He saw us and waited a bit, then walked a few metres up the street, and dropped his pants.

We followed him and stood behind him, so he didn't piss. He just walked a few more metres up and tried to piss again. After 2 times, I just said ���� ��� and we left.

What I found funny is that, by trying to avoid us, he knew he was doing wrong. Just didn't care.

[Devil's Harvest]

I used to live in Siheung, a small city just south of Bucheon. Siheung is a family city and very quiet on weeknights(and on the weekends too, really). I would often go for walks at night just to get some solitude, and rarely encountered drunk or rowdy Koreans.

One evening I am walking my route and come around a bend in the road. About 30 meters in front of me I could see the silhouette of a man sitting on a bench by the road. I hadn't noticed a bench by that bus stop on my walk a few nights before, but I thought nothing of it. As I approached, the night retreated and revealed the truth of the scene before me. There was no bench. Only a discarded toilet. The man, probably in his late fifties but looking neat and tidy, had his pants around his ankles and was rocking back and forth a little, mumbling something in Korean and completely ignoring my presence.

As I walked by I could hear noises similar to water balloons breaking and bean bags being dropped emminating from the porceline throne of this proctological prince. I'm alone and there is no one else on the street, so, horrified, I walked past the man quickly and quietly, hoping not to distract him from his "moving" mantra. A couple of seconds after I pass him he lets go of a remarkably loud fart and exclaims "aeesh" with a sigh of relief. I lost it then, started giggling uncontrollably, but continued walking without looking back.

Never underestimate the power of soju.

[the_beaver]

One of my more conservative students.