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Dev
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 Posted: Sun Jul 30, 2006 11:50 pm Post subject: How Much Do Koreans Know About Western Culture? |
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How many Koreans know about Guniess Beer, Ireland's #1 exported good?
How many Koreans know about Led Zeppelin, John Lennon, Guns 'n Roses...?
How many Koreans know who Mike Myers or Edward Norton is?
How many Koreans know about Fish & Chips?
I've talked to some Koreans and they don't know about some of the above things. I'm a little surprised. |
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RACETRAITOR
Joined: 24 Oct 2005
Location: Seoul, South Korea
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| Posted: Mon Jul 31, 2006 12:03 am Post subject: Re: How Much Do Koreans Know About Western Culture? |
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| They're probably a little surprised by how little the outside world knows about them too. |
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Satori
Joined: 09 Dec 2005
Location: Above it all
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| Posted: Mon Jul 31, 2006 12:32 am Post subject: Re: How Much Do Koreans Know About Western Culture? |
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| Dev wrote: |
How many Koreans know about Guniess Beer, Ireland's #1 exported good?
How many Koreans know about Led Zeppelin, John Lennon, Guns 'n Roses...?
How many Koreans know who Mike Myers or Edward Norton is?
How many Koreans know about Fish & Chips?
I've talked to some Koreans and they don't know about some of the above things. I'm a little surprised. |
You`re surprised? Sounds a little naive. People know about things they either need to know about or things they come into direct contact with, nothing more. The average person doesn`t seek out unknown elements of culture from around the world just off thier own steam for the purpose of being a well rounded person... |
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Natalia
Joined: 10 Mar 2006
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| Posted: Mon Jul 31, 2006 1:35 am Post subject: Re: How Much Do Koreans Know About Western Culture? |
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| RACETRAITOR wrote: |
| They're probably a little surprised by how little the outside world knows about them too. |
Of course they are. But it's a little bit different. Despite the 'Korean Wave'  , Korean culture has hardly made a dent in the rest of the world, whereas Western culture (and 'The West' encompasses a lot of different cultures) is a different story altogether. |
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Juregen
Joined: 30 May 2006
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| Posted: Mon Jul 31, 2006 4:11 am Post subject: Re: How Much Do Koreans Know About Western Culture? |
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| Dev wrote: |
How many Koreans know about Guniess Beer, Ireland's #1 exported good?
How many Koreans know about Led Zeppelin, John Lennon, Guns 'n Roses...?
How many Koreans know who Mike Myers or Edward Norton is?
How many Koreans know about Fish & Chips?
I've talked to some Koreans and they don't know about some of the above things. I'm a little surprised. |
Western Culture is a bit more then this don't you think so?
It goes back centuries, or are you talking contemporary Western Culture?
And wich part of Western Society do you mean
I can go on but i guess i said enough .... |
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Juregen
Joined: 30 May 2006
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| Posted: Mon Jul 31, 2006 4:12 am Post subject: Re: How Much Do Koreans Know About Western Culture? |
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| Natalia wrote: |
| RACETRAITOR wrote: |
| They're probably a little surprised by how little the outside world knows about them too. |
Of course they are. But it's a little bit different. Despite the 'Korean Wave' , Korean culture has hardly made a dent in the rest of the world, whereas Western culture (and 'The West' encompasses a lot of different cultures) is a different story altogether. |
Yes
Mainly thrue Colonisation 
I ain't saying it is bad, but i ain't saying it's good either. |
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Hater Depot
Joined: 29 Mar 2005
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| Posted: Mon Jul 31, 2006 3:56 pm Post subject: |
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| They generally think they know a lot more than they do. Same as most people I suppose. |
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Corporal
Joined: 25 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Mon Jul 31, 2006 5:57 pm Post subject: |
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Knowing about different kinds of beer is hardly evidence of a cultured person.
Perhaps the OP says more about what YOU don't know than what it says about Koreans. |
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Ya-ta Boy
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: Established in 1994
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| Posted: Mon Jul 31, 2006 6:15 pm Post subject: |
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They know we don't like spicy food.
They know we can't use chopsticks.
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mokpochica
Joined: 21 Jan 2003
Location: Ann Arbor, MI
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You might hear several misconceptions about the U.S. (in my case) from Koreans in one day, but then you will start talking to someone who is reading Noam Chomsky.
It's just like anywhere...there are people that are interested in learning about other countries and people that prefer to just concentrate on the world immediately surrounding them. That's their choice and they shouldn't be faulted for it. However, if they express an interest in learning about where you are from it is probably not advisable to show your shock at how little they know. Living in Korea is often an exercise in patience because you have to explain things again and again, but it's not called the most homogeneous nation in the world for nothing.
Your average Korean might not know much about Guiness, but OB or Hite makes a stout so somebody obviously does. By the way, has anyone ever tried it--I'd like to sometime. |
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Smee
Joined: 24 Dec 2004
Location: Jeollanam-do
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| Posted: Mon Jul 31, 2006 6:43 pm Post subject: |
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| Don't blame me, I voted for Yi Sung-shin. |
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princess
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: soul of Asia
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| Posted: Mon Jul 31, 2006 8:02 pm Post subject: Re: How Much Do Koreans Know About Western Culture? |
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| Dev wrote: |
How many Koreans know about Guniess Beer, Ireland's #1 exported good?
How many Koreans know about Led Zeppelin, John Lennon, Guns 'n Roses...?
How many Koreans know who Mike Myers or Edward Norton is?
How many Koreans know about Fish & Chips?
I've talked to some Koreans and they don't know about some of the above things. I'm a little surprised. |
I saw middle-aged looking guys requesting Guns'n'Roses in a bar. I couldn't believe my eyes, or should I say my ears? Even I hate them. I'd rather hear some of the latest Korean singers. The same bar also plays Right Said Fred songs. hehehe They also play John Lennon. |
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Juregen
Joined: 30 May 2006
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| mokpochica wrote: |
Your average Korean might not know much about Guiness, but OB or Hite makes a stout so somebody obviously does. By the way, has anyone ever tried it--I'd like to sometime. |
I tried the Hite stout, it is not fantastic, but try it and see if it fits your taste, it has a lot less "Character" then the european version. |
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Privateer
Joined: 31 Aug 2005
Location: Easy Street.
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| Posted: Mon Jul 31, 2006 8:31 pm Post subject: Re: How Much Do Koreans Know About Western Culture? |
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| princess wrote: |
| I saw middle-aged looking guys requesting Guns'n'Roses in a bar. I couldn't believe my eyes, or should I say my ears? Even I hate them. I'd rather hear some of the latest Korean singers. The same bar also plays Right Said Fred songs. hehehe They also play John Lennon. |
So, no room for rock and roll in the magic kingdom? |
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Hater Depot
Joined: 29 Mar 2005
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| Posted: Tue Aug 01, 2006 12:47 am Post subject: |
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| Hite Stout, not bad. Several bars here in Anyang have it on tap, 3000cc for 11,000. |
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