Korean Job Discussion Forums

Tiny_Tibbo · Joined: 21 Apr 2005 Location: In My Skin

Does anyone know when ahjuma status starts? What exactly defines this term?

ChimpumCallao · Joined: 17 May 2005 Location: your mom

peppermint · Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2005 1:45 am Post subject:

I believe it's age 30 or marriage- whichever comes first, as far as Koreans are concerned

uberscheisse · Joined: 02 Dec 2003 Location: japan is better than korea.

my good friend just got married. she blanched when i said i couldn't call her 'agashi' anymore and that i'd have to call her 'ajumma'.

she says "hmm. i don't want to be ajumma, what should we do?"

i replied that my coworkers and i have a term for the more attractive mothers that come to our school with their kids.

my friend was very comfortable with being called "HOTJUMMA".

waterbaby · Joined: 01 Feb 2003 Location: Baking Gord a Cheescake pie

uberscheisse · Joined: 02 Dec 2003 Location: japan is better than korea.

Tiny_Tibbo · Joined: 21 Apr 2005 Location: In My Skin

well i heard its 27 in Japan...can anyone confirm this?

tzechuk · Joined: 20 Dec 2004

After I got married, I was still called Agassi...

Then when I became pregnant, I was elevated to Ajumma Sad

I don't want to be called ajumma Crying or Very sad

Ekuboko · Joined: 22 Dec 2004 Location: ex-Gyeonggi

When I get random Koreans trying to flag me down in the street (usually to ask me directions or about buses)(why ME? I'm not even Korean!! and I really don't think I look Korean either!)(don't dress like one anyway), it takes me a while to register that they are talking to me, cos they are usually shouting "Ajumma" at me.

Does anyone else think that "ajumma" has too broad a meaning? (age-wise I mean)

tzechuk · Joined: 20 Dec 2004

I always feel that ajumma is to refer to a woman in her 40s, at least. Just sounds that way.

pet lover · Joined: 02 Jan 2004 Location: not in Seoul

I refuse to be ajumma, EVER. Since I don't plan to become a Korean citizen, I don't see why I have to become an ajumma. I'm putting my foot down on this one.

DRAMA OVERKILL · Joined: 12 Apr 2005

morituri · Joined: 03 Feb 2005 Location: seoul

from personal observation:

triceps thicken

sass shoes

she starts wearing cantilevered underwear which starts at her breast and ends mid-thigh

she frequently plonks herself down on a very hot ondol floor, toasting her buttocks while groaning 'ah chotta, ah chotta.' (looks like a beached whale)

looks nervously in the direction of the voice when someone shouts 'ajuma', then looks annoyed but relieved that it isn't her that was being called

Hollywoodaction · Joined: 02 Jul 2004

In all seriousness, I think these women deserve a little more respect. Even young Korean women are discriminating against the ajummahs in the name of feminism. Being called an ajummah is said to be a form of discrimination by some of these young women because of the stereotype associated with the word, thus revealing their own preconceptions. How little do they know of the influence and power these ajummahs wield (for one, they own and operate 70 percent of the small to medium sized businesses in this country).

The evil penguin · Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2005 8:58 am Post subject: