Korean Job Discussion Forums

[Doogie]

I'm relatively new to Korea. I've been here about 8 months. For the most part, I have found Koreans to be pretty friendly people. The one behaviour that I find incredibly rude is the constant cutting off and "butting in" in line ups. This happens in line ups at convenience stores, subways, trains.....whatever. I'm wondering if they're like this because it's a pretty crowded country or they're all workaholics and in a rush to get somewhere. Anyway, I thought would see how other people handle this.

[Corporal]

I realize you admitted you're new but really, we've discussed this six million-odd times.

Have you noticed people spitting in the streets too? Does that bother you excessively? You got four months to go and then it will all be but an unhappy memory. Get a calendar and check the days off if it helps.

[Doogie]

[Qinella]

[patchy]

Here's a recent thread about it:
http://www.eslcafe.com/forums/korea/viewtopic.php?t=54315&highlight=pedestrians

[Doogie]

It's a pretty big jump to go from one "pet peeve" to hating a country. O.K., that's it......you're right. One more 80 year old woman elbows me in the gut and I'm getting the heck outta here.

[Qinella]

[VanIslander]

simply put: until introduced koreans have no responsibility toward each other; us foreigners sometimes get the "guest" label and thus treated better than koreans treat other anonymous koreans

responsibilities arise out of relationships and relationships begin with an introduction

that's the culture, like it or not

[Corporal]

[JongnoGuru]

WTF?? They're letting newbies join now?? This board xus. Sux even.

[Plume D'ella Plumeria]

Corporal, you are just one nasty human being. Or perhaps I am insulting humans in general by suggesting that you are one of them.

Go ahead and hit me, darling. You are seemingly relatively intelligent. Just nasty. Slicks and stones and all of that...

[Hanson]

Doogie, don't worry about some of the responses you get to played-out topics on this board. I was a newbie once too, and I started threads about topics that have been talked about a lot too, without knowing it.

My way to deal with pushy bbali-bbali Koreans is to not let them push me around. In the subway, I can see them coming, and I give them the hard shoulder. In a store, when they cut in line, I give them a "bbabbayo?" (you busy?/you in a hurry?) and watch them apologize knowingly.

The other way to deal with it is to just accept it - but I've come to the conclusion that I can't do that. To each his own...

Corporal - your reaction to Doogie's post was a bit harsh, no?

[I-am-me]

Hard to believe in 8 months you have not seen koreans spitting in the street. Are you a hermit? They are so disgusting in the way they do it....I can hear it a block away sometimes!!

[Doogie]

[C.M.]