Korean Job Discussion Forums

[indiercj]

The purpose of this kind of thread.

[jajdude]

[Len8]

Korea lacks a decent hydraulic system in their toilets. I don't ever remember having to put used toilet paper into a receptacle in the toilet in any western country. Nothings worse than sitting on the can and looking at someone elses dong on the toilet paper in the container under your nose

[antoniothegreat]

sports teams affiliated to cities (like in america, the yankees are from new york, here it is just Samsung, or Daewoo...)

people caring more about themselves than what their boss thinks of them.

real foreigners making foreign food (not koreans making nachos with ketchup, mayo, pickles, raisins and processed cheese instead of salsa, sour cream, jalapenos, olives, and real cheese)

apartments that dont make stupid announcements on the intercom at 6:30 am on a sunday (since this JUST happened. really, wtf?)

people flipped out on drugs yelling at some unknown seen person walking down the street

classic car shows

holiday decorations (unless you count the World Cup as a holiday)

ice cream trucks (oh sweet ice cream)

a dessert place, like baskin robbins or dunkin donuts without a green tea flavored dessert.

old men that politely hold open a door for a young lady

WARM public bathrooms. nothing like going to take care of business, even at a nice restaurant, and opening the bathroom door to find it is just above freezing with all the windows open in the middle of january. i wonder if the toilets have ever frozen here...

[Verser]

[Len8]

They have Walmarts and Discount stores where you can actually buy cheap stuff.

Too much red tape when it comes to starting a buisness. You would never see the the same number of street vendors, because licenses would cost the earth. Vendors in places like Dongdaemun market can leave a lot of their stuff outside covered. If they did that in New York city, it wouldn't be there the next day.

A social security system which seems to feed the growing number of homeless. There aren't as many homeless derelicts here.

A ridiculously over insurance needed medical system. You could die waiting for treatment in a major western hospital.

Very expensive gold fillings. Here they're cheap.

[Len8]

Was in a coffee shop once and there was this foldout small calendar thing. On it though were families in the U.S. who were offering home stays for Korean chidren studying abroad. Anyway I got the shock of my life, because there was a photo of a Korean kid with his host family who happened to be Afro American. Father of the family was an administrater at a school or something.

Good experience for the kid, and an indication of an open mindedness that doesn't usually exist here.

[numazawa]

[thebum]

[Kimchieluver]

[JongnoGuru]

Skies like oil paintings

[wire]

Sincerity.

Maturity beyond one's age.

[numazawa]

[peregrine981]

[maryb]

This time of year, eggnog.

Eggnog with brandy