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haengdangdong



Joined: 12 Jul 2005
PostPosted: Wed Jul 13, 2005 3:35 am    Post subject: Your Ignorant Friends Back Home Reply with quote
A few months ago a drunk old man came into my apartment and tried to steal some of my jackets that were in the living room. It ended up being a really funny story (its in the April archive of http://spmulligan.blogspot.com), but the funniest part were my friends comments when I called to tell them the story.

When I told my friends at home that I was robbed, two out of the four comments were:

"You got robbed in Korea? Was it by ninjas?!?"

This is just a typical joke from people at home. I'm wondering what other funny, ignorant comments you have heard from your friends.

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Alias



Joined: 24 Jan 2003
PostPosted: Wed Jul 13, 2005 3:42 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
"Korea..???.....Don't they eat cats there?"
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Gopher



Joined: 04 Jun 2005
PostPosted: Wed Jul 13, 2005 3:42 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
First time I went to Latin America, to Chile, on a study abroad fellowship, an acquaintence asked why I was so interested in the Mexicans...I didn't bother trying to respond.

I agree with you on this very important point. Everytime I come back home from abroad I have to come to terms with a kind of culture shock, and realize that many of my friends have never been abroad, and this makes communication sometimes a little complicated...
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ed4444



Joined: 12 Oct 2004
PostPosted: Wed Jul 13, 2005 3:46 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
I brought encouraged my friends to come over.

so they did and became teachers.

but they are still ignorant.
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Ya-ta Boy



Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: Established in 1994
PostPosted: Wed Jul 13, 2005 3:49 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Quote:
"Korea..???.....Don't they eat cats there?"



Yes, they do. For medicine.

One of my adult students said that his mother has had a life-long back problem. As a kid, it was his job to catch a stray cat about once a month and take it to his mom. She would boil water in a big pot and drop in the cat and slam the lid down. She ate the soup.

Why? Cats have a limber back. It would help her back problem. It's called imitative magic.
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quiksilver



Joined: 11 Sep 2004
PostPosted: Wed Jul 13, 2005 5:05 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
This lady wasn't a friend of mine but it's a funny story. I was in the liquor store buying some drinks for my going away bar-b-que and the late fifties lady working at the counter and I had this conversation:

Her: "Oh, hi quiksilver. I heard you were going to Korea soon. You're crazy with all the nonsense going on in the world today. When are you leaving?"

Me: "Actually I'm not too concerned for my safety. I'm leaving on Friday."

Her. "Wow. Can you even speak any Chinese?"

Me: "No."

Her: "Ok. Good luck"

Me: "Yeah, thanks."




I told my friends this story when I got back to my house and I swear one of them didn't get it.
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itaewonguy



Joined: 25 Mar 2003
PostPosted: Wed Jul 13, 2005 5:29 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
me: yeah I live in korea now man"
m8: KOREA??? !!! "wheres that"?

me: ASIA! you know JAPAN?
M8: yeah..
ME: next to japan
M8: oh.. whats that like?


other mates..
korea ohh yeah!! KIMCHI HUH
korea they all walk around with those funny hats?
Korea.. they got maccas there?
U in KOREA? north of south?

hahahaha really no clue some of them!!

but then again.. I didnt know to much about korea either when I came over 97.. all I knew was.. they had the games in 88..
apart from that nothing.. I didnt even look it up on the net before I came.
I saw an add work in south korea.. call MR LEE.. and I called it..
3 days later I was in pusan!!
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The King of Kwangju



Joined: 10 Feb 2003
Location: New York City
PostPosted: Wed Jul 13, 2005 6:06 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
"You lived in Korea?"
"Yeah"
cautiously: "North or South?"

I get it all the time.
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buddy bradley



Joined: 24 Aug 2003
Location: The Beyond
PostPosted: Wed Jul 13, 2005 6:07 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
I have a friend who thnks that I'm Cuba. This guy's always asking me to send him some cigars.
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sheba



Joined: 16 May 2005
Location: Here there and everywhere!
PostPosted: Wed Jul 13, 2005 6:08 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
I got....

Don't go and marry a Chinese boy while you're there!

and

Can you speak any Chinese?

and

That Chinese paper you took will come in handy!
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Bulsajo



Joined: 16 Jan 2003
PostPosted: Wed Jul 13, 2005 6:30 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
The King of Kwangju wrote:
"You lived in Korea?"
"Yeah"
cautiously: "North or South?"

I get it all the time.

One year the parcel my mom tried to send me for Xmas got sent back- it turns out someone at Canada Post thought 'Republic of Korea' was North Korea and tried to send it there.
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