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Things back home you wish to show your Korean girl/boyfriend
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shawner88



Joined: 01 Feb 2003

PostPosted: Sun Nov 14, 2004 5:25 am    Post subject: Things back home you wish to show your Korean girl/boyfriend Reply with quote

I keep thinking of all these things and places I want to show my girlfriend back in the states.


1. With all this talk about Korea is so beautiful in the fall, and granted it really is, I would like to show my girlfriend the New England states in the fall. Or basically a ride in the country.

2. Thanksgiving dinner at my grandfather's house

3. Christmas lights on homes.

4. Beautiful parks with practically no people in them

5. Real deli shops (she loves subway sandwhiches)

6. a real blizzard, and a morning after a night of snowfall with all the snow covered trees in our yard.

Just a few things...how about you guys?
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Universalis



Joined: 17 Nov 2003
Location: Seoul

PostPosted: Sun Nov 14, 2004 5:34 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

My girlfriend lived with my family for 8 months last year while she studied ESL at the University of Washington.

I was proud to take her to:

Las Vegas
LA
The Grand Canyon
Leavenworth, WA.
Atlantic Street Pizza (best pizza in Seattle)
the Oregon coastline
The Space Needle
Dick's Burger (best burgers in Seattle)

It's a lot of fun playing tour guide in America... there is just so much to see and do.

Brian
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Ilsanman



Joined: 15 Aug 2003
Location: Bucheon, Korea

PostPosted: Sun Nov 14, 2004 5:47 am    Post subject: yes Reply with quote

1. Real, actually beautiful countryside.

2. Quiet people.

3. Streets with barely any, if none at all, litter and spit on them.

4. Wastepaper baskets at every corner.

5. Drivers signalling when they turn.

6. Police driving without their red and blue lights on.

7. Restaurants without people standing outside, clapping their hands. People DO actually go in!!!

8. Children playing in the park after school, enjoying their childhood, and not studying their youth away.

9. No smoking signs that are actually obeyed.

10. Crowds of people of different race, with little to no pointing and giggling.
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Universalis



Joined: 17 Nov 2003
Location: Seoul

PostPosted: Sun Nov 14, 2004 5:49 am    Post subject: Re: yes Reply with quote

Ilsanman wrote:


10. Crowds of people of different race, with little to no pointing and giggling.


That's a good one, IM. The sheer diversity of the place...

Brian
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thorin



Joined: 14 Apr 2003

PostPosted: Sun Nov 14, 2004 5:53 am    Post subject: Re: yes Reply with quote

Ilsanman wrote:

10. Crowds of people of different race, with little to no pointing and giggling.


Yeah, instead we have race riots and hate crime.
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Ilsanman



Joined: 15 Aug 2003
Location: Bucheon, Korea

PostPosted: Sun Nov 14, 2004 5:54 am    Post subject: yes Reply with quote

None of those in Korea?

I know for a fact a few posters on here have been beaten up by a bunch of Koreans. Is that not also a race crime?
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thorin



Joined: 14 Apr 2003

PostPosted: Sun Nov 14, 2004 6:01 am    Post subject: Re: yes Reply with quote

Ilsanman wrote:
None of those in Korea?

I know for a fact a few posters on here have been beaten up by a bunch of Koreans. Is that not also a race crime?


It very well could have been. I was just saying if you want to show Koreans some utopia of multi-racial harmony in the west, you're dreaming.
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ajuma



Joined: 18 Feb 2003
Location: Anywere but Seoul!!

PostPosted: Sun Nov 14, 2004 6:08 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Well, not GIRL friend, but...

REAL lakes!!!

REAL cows!!!!

REAL lines (As in "for movie/concert tickets")

The variety of architecture as far as houses and public buildings are concerned.

REAL western food (meat loaf, steak on a grill)

REAL yards...front AND back!
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seoulmon



Joined: 13 Nov 2003
Location: Seoul

PostPosted: Sun Nov 14, 2004 6:14 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'm not sure what I want to show my girlfriend....

Sure we have wide streets but the people now in America really disturb me. It's really changed a lot since 911.

The last time I went back to my hometown I visited my small town post office. Everyone there knows me. When I was a kid I sent a postcard from camp that just had the city and the name "MOM." Sure enough the post card arrived.

When our big pine tree was felled by a storm the post man came around to get it (free fire wood for him too).

As I said, the last time I visited my hometown I went to the post office to mail a letter. I didn't have the correct amount so I needed to get money from the bank. Could they hold my package for awhile? Sure. No problem.

Well, I went to one bank. No luck, but the next bank a block away could help me out. When I came back everyone was figity and nervous. "I though you fled!" said the female worker. They really thought I was a terrorist.

What's happened to little old America we used to know and love?!?!
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rapier



Joined: 16 Feb 2003

PostPosted: Sun Nov 14, 2004 6:26 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Photos:
1) me handling an egyptian spitting cobra.
2)Me helping feed a group of orhaned black rhino.
3) me riding an African Elephant.

-such a far cry from the reality here....
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Sleepy in Seoul



Joined: 15 May 2004
Location: Going in ever decreasing circles until I eventually disappear up my own fundament - in NZ

PostPosted: Sun Nov 14, 2004 7:11 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

- Middle-aged women that are quiet and don't push into queues.
- No spit on the footpaths
- No violent and incredilby noisy hawking and spitting on said footpaths
- A driver's licence Smile
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Drakoi



Joined: 26 Sep 2003
Location: The World

PostPosted: Sun Nov 14, 2004 7:23 am    Post subject: Re: yes Reply with quote

Universalis wrote:
Ilsanman wrote:


10. Crowds of people of different race, with little to no pointing and giggling.


That's a good one, IM. The sheer diversity of the place...

Brian


Depends where you take them. Don't go to wyoming.

I was going to post a few thing (like chinese-american food, 32 ounce steaks for 7 dollars), but the OP got most of them. But look how a post that was supposed to be positive things about home turned into negative things about Korea. You people are obsessed.
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Pyongshin Sangja



Joined: 20 Apr 2003
Location: I love baby!

PostPosted: Sun Nov 14, 2004 7:28 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

14 year old girls performing oral sex on guys in cars to get money for crack.
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seoulmon



Joined: 13 Nov 2003
Location: Seoul

PostPosted: Sun Nov 14, 2004 7:59 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Pyongshin Sangja wrote:
14 year old girls performing oral sex on guys in cars to get money for crack.


WHY are you so negative about KOREA?
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Bbang!



Joined: 31 Oct 2004
Location: Seoul

PostPosted: Sun Nov 14, 2004 8:59 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Pyongshin Sangja wrote:
14 year old girls performing oral sex on guys in cars to get money for crack.


Hehe. Shouldn't have laughed, but I did.
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