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Ilsanman
Joined: 15 Aug 2003
Location: Bucheon, Korea
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 Posted: Mon Feb 20, 2006 7:21 am Post subject: Are Koreans really fast? |
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I believe this is a myth. Let's look at what we know.
THings Koreans do fast:
Work (especially building things)
Things Koreans do slowly:
Everything else.
Seriously. Even male friends take women-like time to get ready to go out. No one plans in advance. People walk slowly, especially. |
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Hollywoodaction
Joined: 02 Jul 2004
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| Posted: Mon Feb 20, 2006 7:32 am Post subject: |
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| The old dichotomy of "balli-balli" and "Korean time". |
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Wrench
Joined: 07 Apr 2005
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| Posted: Mon Feb 20, 2006 7:37 am Post subject: Re: Are Koreans really fast? |
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| Ilsanman wrote: |
I believe this is a myth. Let's look at what we know.
THings Koreans do fast:
Work (especially building things)
Things Koreans do slowly:
Everything else.
Seriously. Even male friends take women-like time to get ready to go out. No one plans in advance. People walk slowly, especially. |
Sure they build fast but I have seen faster in Canada. Also the quality control is much better then here.. I don't think there is a single window in my billa that is straight or flush with the wall. Everything is crooked and half ass ed.
Apparently love making falls under fast as well. Apprantely Korean women are amongst some of the most sexually unsatisfied.. |
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HapKi
Joined: 10 Dec 2004
Location: TALL BUILDING-SEOUL
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| Posted: Mon Feb 20, 2006 7:49 am Post subject: |
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| They skate around in a small circle fast. |
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Qinella
Joined: 25 Feb 2005
Location: the crib
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| Posted: Mon Feb 20, 2006 8:19 am Post subject: |
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They talk fast, usually.
Sometimes, I beg people to speak slowly to me so I can understand better, but they just look at me kinda confusedly and keep hitting me with the rapid fire. Arg. |
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itaewonguy
Joined: 25 Mar 2003
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| Posted: Mon Feb 20, 2006 8:31 am Post subject: |
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| Qinella wrote: |
They talk fast, usually.
Sometimes, I beg people to speak slowly to me so I can understand better, but they just look at me kinda confusedly and keep hitting me with the rapid fire. Arg. |
come to Italy! you should hear my aunt and uncle argue! JESUS!!
if the hands dont make you dizzy! trying to catch up on the convo will! |
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Big Mac
Joined: 17 Sep 2005
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| Posted: Mon Feb 20, 2006 8:34 am Post subject: |
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| Yes, but Koreans think they are fast at everything. I don't know how many Koreans who have told me that this is such a fast-paced society. Then I go out for a walk and end up behind a group that has spread themselves across the sidewalk so no one can get through walking at the slowest pace known to man. AIIISHHH!!! |
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mithridates
Joined: 03 Mar 2003
Location: President's office, Korean Space Agency
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| Posted: Mon Feb 20, 2006 8:59 am Post subject: |
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| itaewonguy wrote: |
| Qinella wrote: |
They talk fast, usually.
Sometimes, I beg people to speak slowly to me so I can understand better, but they just look at me kinda confusedly and keep hitting me with the rapid fire. Arg. |
come to Italy! you should hear my aunt and uncle argue! JESUS!!
if the hands dont make you dizzy! trying to catch up on the convo will! |
Italy sounds like fun (including the coffee thread too). When are you going next? |
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seoulkitchen
Joined: 28 Dec 2004
Location: Hub of Asia, my ass!
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| Posted: Mon Feb 20, 2006 9:05 am Post subject: |
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| Big Mac wrote: |
| Yes, but Koreans think they are fast at everything. I don't know how many Koreans who have told me that this is such a fast-paced society. Then I go out for a walk and end up behind a group that has spread themselves across the sidewalk so no one can get through walking at the slowest pace known to man. AIIISHHH!!! |
That has bugged me since day one in that god-forsaken, slowass-walking land of morning clams!
What the hell is up with that?!?
Too much 'fast' food I guess.
I also like how they claim to be s 'diligent'.
The only thing I see them diligent about is drinking soju. |
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blunder1983
Joined: 12 Apr 2005
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| Your forgetting ATMs. I'd never been to a country before where it takes people 15minutes to just withdraw some money. SOooooooooooo slow |
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VanIslander
Joined: 18 Aug 2003
Location: Geoje, Hadong, Tongyeong,... now in a small coastal island town outside Gyeongsangnamdo!
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| Posted: Mon Feb 20, 2006 4:01 pm Post subject: |
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| but they can count money like the wind |
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robb9
Joined: 13 Jul 2004
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| Posted: Mon Feb 20, 2006 5:17 pm Post subject: |
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| I think people are mistaking their lateness for being fast. The reason that you see so many Koreans running all the time, is because they are late. I can set my watch to them..when its about 9am in the morning you will see everyone running to their office buildings. If they didnt plan everything to the last minute they would not be running around all the time. |
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Qinella
Joined: 25 Feb 2005
Location: the crib
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| Posted: Mon Feb 20, 2006 6:45 pm Post subject: |
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| itaewonguy wrote: |
| Qinella wrote: |
They talk fast, usually.
Sometimes, I beg people to speak slowly to me so I can understand better, but they just look at me kinda confusedly and keep hitting me with the rapid fire. Arg. |
come to Italy! you should hear my aunt and uncle argue! JESUS!!
if the hands dont make you dizzy! trying to catch up on the convo will! |
Hey is that an invitation? I'm going to Italy assa! |
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tomato
Joined: 31 Jan 2003
Location: I get so little foreign language experience, I must be in Koreatown, Los Angeles.
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Korean teachers cover material too fast.
Korean English teachers operate on the principle that one must cover a page a day whether the students learn the material or not.
The director of one school assigned to me a Side by Side 3 class which she had been teaching until then. They were currently on a chapter which combined simple present tense with present progressive tense. None of the students knew either tense. A couple of the students didn't even know which problem on the page we were on.
They would have known both tenses if the director had gone through Side by Side 1 slooowly.
The students were accustomed to progressing at a page a day, so they complained to the director that I was staying on the same page.
The director told me to go on to the next page and I refused.
She secretly tried to find another foreign teacher to replace me, but she couldn't find one.
Music teachers are the same way.
I have seen piano students playing piano sonatas which my teachers back home would have playing Clementi and Burgmuller.
I have seen piano students playing Clementi and Burgmuller which my teachers back home would have playing the John Thompson book.
Same way with violin teachers. I have seen violin students playing Bach and Vivaldi which my teachers back home would have playing Mary Had a Little Lamb.
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Privateer
Joined: 31 Aug 2005
Location: Easy Street.
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| Posted: Mon Feb 20, 2006 8:52 pm Post subject: |
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| VanIslander wrote: |
| but they can count money like the wind |
They sure can. Dextrous fingers. Must be the amazing thin-steel-chopstick manipulative genes again.
They certainly have apartment building construction down to a fine art too. Those things practically sprout up before your eyes.
The walking speed does drive me crazy though. It seems that each leg in turn must be moved slowly, steadily, with dignity and with tortoise-like ponderosity, as if through treacle. Was the degree of slowness proportionate to the elevatedness of one's rank in Choson days? Was the slow pace perhaps an act of solidarity among the lower classes as a mule-like pose of resistance to the rapacious labour demands of their masters? Or is it the genes again? Who knows, but I've often wanted to see what effect a giant bowling ball would have on a stairful of plodding ajossis. |
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