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tacon101
Joined: 31 Oct 2005
Location: seoul
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Newbie
Joined: 07 Feb 2003
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I've gotten so used to going without 'em that I won't get one when I go back. They are a luxury that the whole world should give up.
Save on electricity and help the environment. (good God, I can't believe I said "save the environment" What am I turning in to?) |
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JongnoGuru
Joined: 25 May 2004
Location: peeing on your doorstep
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| Posted: Tue Feb 21, 2006 9:48 pm Post subject: |
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I've gotten so used to going without 'em that I won't get one when I go back. They are a luxury that the whole world should give up.
Save on electricity and help the environment. (good God, I can't believe I said "save the environment" What am I turning in to?) |
East Asia's had the same effect on me.
I do have a dryer, though, but I purposely don't use it very often.
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zappadelta
Joined: 31 Aug 2004
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| Posted: Tue Feb 21, 2006 10:27 pm Post subject: |
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French is for pussies. |
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Newbie
Joined: 07 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Tue Feb 21, 2006 11:14 pm Post subject: |
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| 3- Opportunity to speak French (some of my family are French) |
French is for pussies. |
Indeed. Speak French and you'll get all the pussies you want. |
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Wangja
Joined: 17 May 2004
Location: Seoul, Yongsan
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| Posted: Tue Feb 21, 2006 11:19 pm Post subject: |
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| C'est vrai! C'est vrai! |
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tacon101
Joined: 31 Oct 2005
Location: seoul
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| Posted: Wed Feb 22, 2006 1:35 am Post subject: |
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| JongnoGuru wrote: |
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I've gotten so used to going without 'em that I won't get one when I go back. They are a luxury that the whole world should give up.
Save on electricity and help the environment. (good God, I can't believe I said "save the environment" What am I turning in to?) |
East Asia's had the same effect on me.
I do have a dryer, though, but I purposely don't use it very often. |
not everything...just some things are better warm
oh and korea needs google video, sephora, and victoria's secret |
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Yu_Bum_suk
Joined: 25 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Wed Feb 22, 2006 3:23 am Post subject: Re: Home country vs Korea..lets see the lists! |
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1- Open spaces
2- Hockey
3- Opportunity to speak French (some of my family are French)
4- Micro breweries
5- Diversity of foods ( thats not so bad anymore as we cook varied foods here)
6- Less pollution (in the smaller cities anyway)
7- Montreal (great city to visit and live in)
Your turn.... |
That's about it for me, too. Less obnoxious little kids running around everywhere would be about the only thing I could add. Perhaps also racists and wife-beaters actually getting punished sometimes. Oh and salmon. Yes, I do miss the salmon.
Not a lot, that's for sure. |
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The Bobster
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Tue Apr 04, 2006 6:17 am Post subject: Re: Home country vs Korea..lets see the lists! |
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| Yes, I do miss the salmon. |
I get salmon here. Not everywhere I shop, but you can find it, and sometimes it's not so pricey as you'd think ... actually, these days, I'm hard-pressed to think of things I miss from back home I can't get SOMEwhere. |
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Milwaukiedave
Joined: 02 Oct 2004
Location: Goseong
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Most of these have been mentioned already. Since I'm from Oregon, the first one should be no surprise...
Here is my list in no particular order:
1) clean air
2) good Mexican food
3) open spaces
4) cheese
5) dryers (although I do have one in my apartment now)
6) pedistrian friendly cities (actual sidewalks where people don't drive on them)
7) watching NFL football on Sunday morning (instead of in the middle of the night)
 self-service pharmacies
9) Lions Club (yes, I'm aware it's here in Korea)
10) Mint Skittles (mmm..yummy) |
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OiGirl
Joined: 23 Jan 2003
Location: Hoke-y-gun
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| Posted: Tue Apr 04, 2006 4:53 pm Post subject: Re: Home country vs Korea..lets see the lists! |
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| 3- Opportunity to speak French (some of my family are French) |
It is SO NICE to be in a country where you're bilingual, instead of a country where you are sub-lingual in the one language. |
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OiGirl
Joined: 23 Jan 2003
Location: Hoke-y-gun
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| Posted: Tue Apr 04, 2006 4:54 pm Post subject: |
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| Yeah...I forgot the cheese....as well as the wine! |
Yeah! Cheese and wine! |
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gotte00
Joined: 18 Jan 2003
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1.jewish deli
2.varieties of microbrews...hell, a variety of anything
3.clothes
4.quality baseball games without bangers and guys wacking drums
5.magazine
6. carpet
7.diswashers
and last, and the most important....LIVE MUSIC!!!!there is no music scene here and i'm sorry, but kpop is not music, and some of the hip hop, while some here is decent, it doesn't get me excited about live music. mostly because it's not live. if i was at one of these mnet shows, instead of waving balloons and glowsticks i'd be throwing them at the performers for lip syncing |
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Unreal
Joined: 01 Jul 2004
Location: Jeollabuk-do
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1.) crisp, clean air devoid of the smell of kimchi or garbage
2.) being able to see blue sky or stars regularly
3.) back yard barbecues
4.) wide selection of quality chocolate, cheese, beer, cereal, bread....the list goes on...
5.) big blocks of cheese
6.) fresh whole grain bread
7.) cheap beef
8.) gravy (my Korean wife always talks about opening a "gravy restaraunt" in Korea because she loves it so much and thinks it would catch on)
9.) hockey
10.) good ethnic-other-than-Korean food
(I know some of these things are available in Korea but they are readily available in my hometown of 5000 people while not in a city ten times that size here) |
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cwemory
Joined: 14 Jan 2006
Location: Gunpo, Korea
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trees, big trees (and not the smoking kind) (not this time anyway).
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