Korean Job Discussion Forums

[Tiberious aka Sparkles]

I always notice that Korean males, both men and boys, often have grotesquely long fingernails.

Why?

Sparkles*_*

[dogbert]

Better to pick their noses with.

[ulsanchris]

They are too lazy to do it. I've noticed it too. Whenever i've asked korean girls what they think about guys with long finger nails none of them like it. One doctor i went to had long finger nails. I didn't stay his patient for very long.

[Tiberious aka Sparkles]

[The Man known as The Man]

[Stecenc]

I have seen this in the states. I have heard, that it shows the person does not do physical labor.

[Bulsajo]

[ulsanchris]

one time i asked a middle school boy why he had such long fingernails. He didn't know. I mentioned that in Canada boys usually had short fingernails and boys who didn't were teased. The next day i noticed he had cut his finger nails. He has grown them long since then.

[VanIslander]

grooming?

"real" men don't care either way

(in Western culture)

[Swiss James]

in China they keep one fingernail long for raking wax out of their ears.



how minging is that?

[indiercj]

Having a bad day?

[simone]

Until the mid 1800's the nobility often chose never to cut their hair or fingernails, as it was a sign of respect to their parents... their parents having "given" them these things.

I think it was around 1880 that it was declared impractical and people were officially encouraged to trim.

Source: _An Encyclopedia of Korean Culture_ I saw this while flipping through it the other day - would get the page number if I really cared.

[keithinkorea]

I have longish nails on my right hand, I play the guitar.

[Yesterday]

[JongnoGuru]

(doesn't that look strikingly nice alongside my avatar? Nosferatu was last seen boarding a plane bound for East Asia sometime in the 1980s. Unconfirmed reports say he flew business class. But there are no known surviving witnesses.)