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Pyongshin Sangja · Joined: 20 Apr 2003 Location: I love baby!

Korean salt is weird. I hate it. I do, however, like most of the other things about this place. Go all night? And then some! I hope I make 30. This place is gonna kill me.

gomurr · Joined: 04 Feb 2003

There's an article on the Korea times website about kids who go overseas to study in highschools. The writer uses Vancouver as an example and I'd have to say it's dead on. I remember my last year at Universoty in Ottawa (Carleton), i lived in res and we this guy from Korea on our floor. Nice guy, always had a smile on his face but didn't speak not even to his own roommate. We would only see him (Smiley) now and then. He wouldn't hang out with the guys no matter how hard they tried. Didn't even watch Tv in the lounge. According to his roommate, he'd just come home to sleep. I always saw him with a bunch of other Korean guys talking.
Now I know we tend to do the same thing over here but most of us does or has had at one time or another had Korean friends of one kind or another, that we would go out with. Me, I spent my first year hanging out with my Korean roomates. It's all about adaptability.

Tiger Beer · Joined: 07 Feb 2003

Yeah, I'm thinking about it as well now. When I lived in New York City, one of my roommates was from Vietnam. Actually he was a doctor!! He looked really young though.

Anyhow, he spent almost all of his free time in his room and would barely come out. I admit it was really difficult to understand him, and I found myself not making much effort either, couldn't really hangout with him like I would other people.

However he was a great guy, and we talked about Vietnam currently, as he knew I'd been in Asia and Korea and all of that. I did learn from him at times, but for the most part, the language barrier was to difficult. I didn't spend much time at home myself either, and when I did, I just wanted to relax in my room myself.

Anyhow..

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

I don't agree that english teachers seclude themselves. Most of the ones I know may prefer the company of fellow foreigners, but they don't avoid Koreans or korean things.

I attend 2 korean classes weekly, and I am a pretty decent speaker. I can generally communicate what I want, though nothing complex. At my classes, I find more people who are better than me. Sometimes, a lot better. If you know of the Sookmyung Women's University 'Gongbubang' class on saturdays, and how crowded it gets, there is a genuine interest from many foreigners to learn Korean.

Ya-ta Boy · Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Location: Established in 1994

Hey!

Omaha's a pretty happenin' kind of place along about 9 pm. I think the previous posters were just dumping on a great city. Evil or Very Mad

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Tiger Beer · Joined: 07 Feb 2003

dogbert · Joined: 29 Jan 2003 Location: Killbox 90210

Seoultrader · Joined: 18 Jun 2003 Location: Ali's Insurgent Inn, Fallujah

http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200402/200402200009.html

Old, but always a classic...

Tiger Beer · Joined: 07 Feb 2003

Ya-ta Boy · Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Location: Established in 1994

jajdude · Joined: 18 Jan 2003

There are quite a few Koreans in Saigon. One Korean guy there said there were about 40 Korean restaurants in that city. And it wasn't hard to tell Koreans do a lot of business there (Samsung, Hyundai, mobile telephones). Some of the PC room computers had Korean computers with habgul on them. One British guy I met had a good few private lessons teaching Korean kids English there at a good rate of $20/hour. They are generally quite rich there. Soju was even for sale at $4 in some stores.

Tiger Beer · Joined: 07 Feb 2003

philinkorea · Joined: 27 Jan 2003

heard the exciting hell and boring heaven a few times in my adult classes. I think the fact that they use the word boring comes from how they dont have the same sense of individuality as western people. its always about being in a group. Australia to me was very quiet and peaceful but could never be described as boring.

also would add how koreans are meant to always behave the same abroad. then again though Im english and i know loads of english who go on their holidays to ibiza and benidorm to act like drunken louts the same as they would at home. an old student friend who's more of a progressive thinker who has spent a lot of time abroad said how he was in a restaurant abroad when a load of stupid drunk koreans asked him to join them so he used his japanese to hide his identity, quite amusing i thought