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| Korea - it's hardly the Wild East, you utter babies! |
| Agreed. Korea is soft. |
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| I disagree. Korea is an unpleasant and downright dangerous country to live in! |
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ajgeddes
Joined: 28 Apr 2004
Location: Yongsan
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| No-one ever gives you any sh*t, even if you walk round with a K-bird (since how many of those 27 have girlfriends or boyfriends and are happy here? Most if not all?), it's piss-easy to get laid, it's an absolute doddle! Living in Korea really couldn't be any more simple, BUT NO, some dim-witted harlequins, the likes of you and Barking Mad Loser, can't even live in one of the most peaceful, socially tame, conservative societies on earth! Dev can't even cross the street without crying and running to Daves. How you 4 losers who voted 'no' gonna manage in Brazil or China or mafia-controlled southern Europe or bloody Columbia? Pathetic individuals. |
SPINOZA, you are full of *beep*. You are the person that used to come on here and complain that girls wouldn't sleep with you. |
What y'on about? i have NEVER complained of that on here! |
I am not going to go through your 2,000 posts, but I remember you coming on here and complaining about how girls won't sleep with you until you have dated them for a while. You must remember writing about that. I remember because I thought it was funny at the time. |
I've never said that, as (I'll spare you the details, but) my own experience would be enough to refute my own theory.
**keep this pointless crap out of this thread, please, if you don't mind. |
You brought it into this thread. You can deny writing that all you want, but you did write about it. |
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alinkorea
Joined: 02 May 2005
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| Posted: Thu Sep 21, 2006 5:53 pm Post subject: |
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Very funny thread. I'm very amused by the fact Spinoza has tried to cast himself has Rambo. He's so hard, no Korean could possibly take him on.
Korea whilst being soft (very) on the surface has a definate undercurrent below the surface. One example, the mafia has a strong control in areas of Seoul and Busan. They didn't gain this control by winning a tickling competition.
To test your invincibility theory I recommend going to the Russian area of Itaewon, and sparking trouble. |
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Junior
Joined: 18 Nov 2005
Location: the eye
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| Posted: Thu Sep 21, 2006 5:54 pm Post subject: |
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| a bit of rowdy drinking, soldiers behaving like thugs, prostitution and fighting on Saturday nights hardly constitutes a hard area), |
Holy cow. What type of sewer are you from exactly?
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| I yearn for the wild, fooked up crap I saw back home and have seen on the subways of London and Sydney on friday nights. |
So long as you aren't the victim?
Plenty people have been attacked here. the fact that you haven't shows how little of a threat koreans see you as. Maybe if you pull out that supermodel girlfriend of yours (?) and take a ride round town you'll finally get your wish. |
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adventureman
Joined: 18 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Thu Sep 21, 2006 6:00 pm Post subject: |
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| I've never said that |
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Whilst there's much to be said for some of the generalizations made in this thread, it differs from individual to individual.
My best male friend in Korea has, er, 'dated' heaven-knows-how-many girls. He just effortlessly gets them. He's quite a good-looking guy though and there's a kind of "not rocket science as to why" thing about it.
I haven't done badly either. I've been here nearly 7 months, dated a Korean girl in my first week here (she asked me out - which is very unusual in my opinion - for dinner and to teach me some survival Korean phrases). I've dated more girls in 7 months than I did back home in 5 years. Having said that, most of the girls back home I simply wasn't interested in. Even my ex was a foreigner.
Getting a date with a K-bird per se isn't wildly difficult, especially the girls that go to Hongdae/Itaewon (places in Seoul frequented by us waygooks, OP, in case you dunno that). However, gems of English culture like heavy kissing within 10 minutes of meeting on the dancefloor, sex on the first night of meeting (never mind the first date!), kissing in public, are sadly absent here. My friend dated a Korean girl (who's absolutely beautiful) 8 times and never had sex (I think he's given up). They did everything else, but not actual sex. I strongly suspect that she's a virgin. Back home, a girl as hot as her being a virgin at 23 is absolutely unthinkable - even an ugly bird being a virgin at 23 is unlikely! She was great at texting and and responding to missed calls too - she called him and suggested dates etc etc.
So, the SPIN verdict: dating is not hard. Women are the same everywhere. If you're good-looking, they'll fancy you and date you. But in Korea, getting them to sleep with you is perhaps more difficult than back home. |
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Gwangjuboy
Joined: 08 Jul 2003
Location: England
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| Posted: Thu Sep 21, 2006 6:32 pm Post subject: |
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| Plenty people have been attacked here. the fact that you haven't shows how little of a threat koreans see you as. Maybe if you pull out that supermodel girlfriend of yours (?) and take a ride round town you'll finally get your wish. |
This is very true. If you walk around with a chick who has a face like a bag of spanners then you are unlikely to arouse any feelings of jealousy. I once had a hot girlfriend and we encountered lots of problems. The Spaz hasn't got past first base yet so he doesn't need to worry about it.
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lastat06513
Joined: 18 Mar 2003
Location: Sensus amo Caesar , etiamnunc victus amo uni plebian
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| Posted: Thu Sep 21, 2006 6:42 pm Post subject: |
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Wow~ Spinoza- you got a grade-A debate started here.
Yes, Korea IS a safe country compared to the US- Right now, my hometown is grappling with 18 homicides since July because of a senseless turfwar.
But Korea has its share of crime and there is indeed alot of random attacks that do occur to foreigners.
In China, if a person attacks a foreigner, if the local was found to be at fault, there would be some legal repercussions to the crime.
In Korea, locals are protrayed to be innocent and place the blame squarely on the foreigner (what we call in the west- A circlejerk or legal reacharound).
I have yet to hear on the news of a Korean being arrested for any criminal acts against foreigners (by that, I mean English teachers) but you hear a sh*tload about foreigners committing crimes against Koreans- thus creating a sense of victimization.
In my 10 years of living in Korea, I have yet to have it happen to me (thats because I am tall and built like a defensive linebacker), but I have seen it happen to my friends and other people I've met. It is not that they were acting like arzes- most of the time we were minding our own business- it was because they were in the wrong place at the wrong time.
I have met many apologists over the years who say that Korea is a wonderful country and the people are wonderful, only to lose that impression once they are involved in a violent episode, which can happen even after several years of being here because Koreans can't differentiate between those who just got here and those who have been in Korea for a while (unless you speak Korean and embarrass the hell out of them while they bother you- The true key to repelling such attacks is to make the attacker lose face in public)
I love Korea and its people, but to turn a blind eye to its xenophobia will ultimately hurt anyone who won't see it.
I know "ignorance is bliss" but it can also be dangerous... |
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SPINOZA
Joined: 10 Jun 2005
Location: $eoul
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| Posted: Thu Sep 21, 2006 6:45 pm Post subject: |
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| a bit of rowdy drinking, soldiers behaving like thugs, prostitution and fighting on Saturday nights hardly constitutes a hard area), |
Holy cow. What type of sewer are you from exactly? |
well, those of us with slightly wider life experience than that of small rural douchbag town and Itaewon generally regard Itaewon is hardly the wild West (or East, or wild what ever). Perhaps it's an eye-opening mammoth thing for the likes of you, but I've seen all sorts of weird, fabulously grotesque things in my time - Itaewon sums it all up, Korean, considered wild, and is tame as a library.
Gwangjuboy - It's beneath me to tell you how fit my bird is. Even if she wasn't pretty, it's personality that's what's most important, sadly for you, possessing as you do the personality of a box of rotting animal carcasses. Contribute constructively, or sod off out of my thread, you silly little man. |
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rawiri
Joined: 01 Jun 2003
Location: Lovely day for a fire drill.
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| Posted: Thu Sep 21, 2006 6:50 pm Post subject: |
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To test your invincibility theory I recommend going to the Russian area of Itaewon, and sparking trouble.[/quote]
That would just be stupid. I've been there in some drunken states and survived to tell the tale. Never "sparked trouble" though. You leave them alone and they do the same. |
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lastat06513
Joined: 18 Mar 2003
Location: Sensus amo Caesar , etiamnunc victus amo uni plebian
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| Posted: Thu Sep 21, 2006 6:58 pm Post subject: |
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Oh! In regards to the Koreans voyeuristic approach to stalking foreign men with their local girlfriends-
You know, Korea has libel laws and you can sue the website that posts pictures of you.
So if you or anyone else come across pictures of youself or themselves on any Korean website, you can achive the image and the address where you found it, take the complaint to a lawyer and then file a lawsuit against not only the person who posted the info on the site but you can also sue the website for violating your privacy.
And you can collect monetary damages in Korea for it* |
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Gwangjuboy
Joined: 08 Jul 2003
Location: England
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| Posted: Thu Sep 21, 2006 7:14 pm Post subject: |
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| SPINOZA wrote: |
| Contribute constructively, or sod off out of my thread, you silly little man. |
In might be your thread but it's my world.
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| possessing as you do the personality of a box of rotting animal carcasses |
There are striking similarities between your writing style and djbackdoor's style. At least you aren't claiming that you are a bigshot. How do I pay the admission fee for this thread? |
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flotsam
Joined: 28 Mar 2006
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| Posted: Thu Sep 21, 2006 7:17 pm Post subject: |
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| Gwangjuboy wrote: |
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| Contribute constructively, or sod off out of my thread, you silly little man. |
In might be your thread but it's my world.
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| possessing as you do the personality of a box of rotting animal carcasses |
There are striking similarities between your writing style and djbackdoor's style. At least you aren't claiming that you are a bigshot. How do I pay the admission fee for this thread? |
Yawn. |
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Gwangjuboy
Joined: 08 Jul 2003
Location: England
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| Posted: Thu Sep 21, 2006 7:34 pm Post subject: |
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| That would just be stupid. I've been there in some drunken states and survived to tell the tale. Never "sparked trouble" though. You leave them alone and they do the same. |
You aren't wrong. I ended up in a club called Hollywood. It was full of Russian sailors built like bricksh1thouses. They all had the red and white vests on. They looked like Zangief. Definitely not a place where you want to shoot your mouth off. Still, not really representative of Korea. |
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laogaiguk
Joined: 06 Dec 2005
Location: somewhere in Korea
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| Posted: Thu Sep 21, 2006 7:36 pm Post subject: |
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| Gwangjuboy wrote: |
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| That would just be stupid. I've been there in some drunken states and survived to tell the tale. Never "sparked trouble" though. You leave them alone and they do the same. |
You aren't wrong. I ended up in a club called Hollywood. It was full of Russian sailors built like bricksh1thouses. They all had the red and white vests on. They looked like Zangief. Definitely not a place where you want to shoot your mouth off. Still, not really representative of Korea. |
Wow, I am glad you added that last sentence for the really stupid people! |
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flotsam
Joined: 28 Mar 2006
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| Posted: Thu Sep 21, 2006 7:41 pm Post subject: |
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| Gwangjuboy wrote: |
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| That would just be stupid. I've been there in some drunken states and survived to tell the tale. Never "sparked trouble" though. You leave them alone and they do the same. |
You aren't wrong. I ended up in a club called Hollywood. It was full of Russian sailors built like bricksh1thouses. They all had the red and white vests on. They looked like Zangief. Definitely not a place where you want to shoot your mouth off. Still, not really representative of Korea. |
Wow, I am glad you added that last sentence for the really stupid people! |
Note to self. |
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JZer
Joined: 13 Jan 2005
Location: South Korea
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| Posted: Thu Sep 21, 2006 7:58 pm Post subject: |
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| Of course, getting my knees smashed by a stupid, white American Daves freak who still hasn't got laid in Korea is going to pulverize my views about Korea into smitherines, isn't it? Were you born without substantial, vital parts of the brain and them replaced with that of a donkey, JZer? I'd vote yes to that poll. |
Spinioza, I am glad that you know me personally. How do you know whether I get laid or not? I don't think that I ever posted anything on here about getting laid or not. I definitly don't come on here and ask for advice about women. |
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