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essexboy · Joined: 11 Jun 2006 Location: close to orgasm

1. Arrive expecting the koreans to think you are different in a quirky, interesting way, and want to know more about your country
2. Find you are as interesting here to most people as you are at home
3. Realise that lots of people dont give a rats ass where your from, they hate you coz you're not korean
4. Resent the whole of korea, but feel guilty when occasionally someone is nice to you
5. (some ass munchers only) Come onto Daves ESL cafe and try to justify domestic abuse as "none of our business"

ChopChaeJoe · Joined: 05 Mar 2006 Location: Seoul

I've been in a year and I'm only up to step 2. I guess that's all downhill from here.

Lizara · Joined: 14 Apr 2004 Location: Seoul

huh? Stages of an angry, bitter teacher maybe. My experience has been nothing like that. I don't know of any Koreans who hate me and while I've had stages where I wish I weren't here, or wish lots of things were different, I've never even come close to resenting the whole of Korea.

djsmnc · Joined: 20 Jan 2003 Location: Dave's ESL Cafe

Yeah, I never had any expectations fly out the window like that.

ChopChaeJoe · Joined: 05 Mar 2006 Location: Seoul

I will admit that I'm not as in love with Korea as when i arrived, but that's just maturity. If i didn't like this place and it's people, I would not have signed on to stay another year.

Except in crowd situations, I've never been made to feel that people don't give a rat's ass about me. If anything, when people learn where I am from, thy want to know more about me.

Zoidberg · Posted: Mon Oct 16, 2006 4:56 am Post subject:

You could add a few more stages describing a devolution into some kind of bottom feeding suction eel and you could rename it the "stages of a couple of idiots who post irrelevant articles and/or insult everyone for doing the exact same thing they are doing."

Catchy.

Qinella · Joined: 25 Feb 2005 Location: the crib

essexboy · Joined: 11 Jun 2006 Location: close to orgasm

apologists make me sick.

Kimchieluver · Joined: 02 Mar 2005

Liking Korea doesn't make you an apologist, standing up for all the stupid crap they do does.

jmbran11 · Joined: 19 Jan 2006 Location: U.S.

Not absolutely hating Korea doesn't make one an apologist. Just because you can't hack it, doesn't mean the problem is the culture. Consider upping your Prozac. Or maybe spending less time on Dave's (I find that puts me in a much better mood).

Kimchieluver · Joined: 02 Mar 2005