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[brento1138]

I was prepping up my course materials when in the textbook a Korean was told he could wear his shoes in this American girl's house. I think this is very strange. Back in Canada, I always took off my shoes before entering one's house. Not to do so is considered rude. Isn't it???

Do you people actually wear your shoes in the house? Do Koreans think we all wear our shoes in the house? Maybe I am more Korean than I realized!

[ilovebdt]

Possibly.

I don't though. Before I even came to Korea, I would always take off my shoes at the front door and put on my slippers.

ilovebdt

[ajgeddes]

Never (well a few times when I had to run in quickly and my parents weren't looking) because my dad would have killed me. I don't know anybody else that does either. Everybody I know takes their shoes off.

[superhans]

[Pyongshin Sangja]

I always wore shoes indoors at home and hated going to the houses of people that made me take mine off.

Damn hippies.

I tell you what, the Japs won. Let's get into our Nissan and go for sushi, then come home and take off our freakin shoes.

What is wrong with society?

[gang ah jee]

I'm wearing shoes at home right now. And what of it?

And maybe Canadians wear shoes inside less because of the snow? And because Canada is just generally filthy?

[Demonicat]

Always wore them inside, my parents had a FIT if we walked around barefoot. Possible reason being that growing up in West Virginia (very rural area, with bad connotations), being barefoot was equivalent to being a dirty hillbilly.

[Octavius Hite]

I have never met a single Canadian, not to say they don't exist, that wore their shoes in the house.

I suspect this is mainly due to the snow and the fact we wear mukluks.

That said, most of the Americans I have met wear their shoes in the house.

[essexboy]

my girlfriend wears high-heels in bed- does that count?

[ajgeddes]

[nobbyken]

I am from Scotland, where are far as I know everyone wears shoes in the house, except when it snows.

Perhaps if a host has an expensive new carpet, they may request that shoes be removed.
More people are going for the wooden effect tiles or floor covering, so more people are not wearing their shoes on their scratchable/markable floors.

I always assumed it was a Asian thing, and made more sense in Korea anyway because of the underfloor heating.

In Scotland when it snows, we wear our wellies, and nobody ever takes them past the front door. We then wear slippers when it snows.


Interesting post.

[Ya-ta Boy]

Of course we wear shoes in the house at home. Running in and out all day. Silly to take 'em off and put 'em back on again every time you go in and out. In the evening, we mostly took our shoes off and walked around in our stocking feet. If company came, we put them back on.

Like someone mentioned, we wore shoes in other people's homes unless asked to take them off.

[poet13]

When I was growing up in Canada, we took our shoe/boots off in teh winter, and in the summer only if they were dirty. When I went to another persons house, it was usually clarified at the door. Living in the US, taking shoes off at the door was the exception, not the rule. Here, I take my shoes off at the door to my apartment.

[venus]

Man, in my own home I wear shoes if I want to wear shoes. I actually make a point of avoiding having my Korean colleagues over though because I'm really convinced that they'd be meticulously inspecting everything and then talk about how dirty foriegners are on the way home. I just couldn't relax. I mean, they'd have a point, my place is a mess most of the time, but the point is IT'S MINE, I do what I like in it.

Oddly though when I have guests round and THEY don't offer to take off their shoes, I'm deeply offended. I guess it's because it's polite to at least offer and if they don't I feel disrepected.

Man I love wearing shoes in the apt, damn, I'm gonna go home now and walk all over the floor in every room of the place and love it. I'll scratch my bum and bang the doors as well. I'll even wear my shoes AND my jacket on the sofa whilst watching tv and I'll eat a sandwich WITHOUT a plate... hoo hoo!! - I'll leave magazines all over the sideboards and even leave the bathroom door open!!

... tee hee hee, you can't see me now Mother, NO! Ha ha, you can't do a thing now... ha ha ha ha! you can't tell Daddy when he gets home ha ha...!!

[Return Jones]