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dyc
Joined: 16 Dec 2010
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Cuz, yknow, everyone can afford to travel to Korea and Japan. Or, god forbid that people are fascinated with something that you're not.
Unless of course the OP is referring to a sort of Orientalism? |
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chellovek
Joined: 29 Feb 2008
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| Posted: Wed Feb 09, 2011 9:57 pm Post subject: |
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Never met such people.
Having said that, I don't mind Korea but K-pop and K-drama aren't my cup of tea.
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Underwaterbob
Joined: 08 Jan 2005
Location: In Cognito
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| Posted: Wed Feb 09, 2011 10:20 pm Post subject: |
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| The only Koreaphile I've ever met was here. He was a completely socially inept know-it-all, especially when it came to matters Korean. He disappeared after a couple of months. |
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zappadelta
Joined: 31 Aug 2004
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| Posted: Thu Feb 10, 2011 2:14 am Post subject: |
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| Captain Corea wrote: |
| I've never met anyone like what the OP is describing. |
+1 |
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eamo
Joined: 08 Mar 2003
Location: Shepherd's Bush, 1964.
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| Posted: Thu Feb 10, 2011 3:10 am Post subject: |
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I did work with an American who had married a Korean girl, dressed in Hanbok sometimes, loved all korean food, and studied Korean lang extensively......he was the most immersed foreigner in Korea I'd met......until....
......until.....our boss pulled some Korea-boss-style-shafting on him.....then he was totally American again! Shouting his head off at the boss in the teachers room etc.....ditching all concepts of confucian 'harmony'..... |
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Tundra_Creature
Joined: 11 Jun 2009
Location: Canada
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| Posted: Thu Feb 10, 2011 4:08 am Post subject: |
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Am I a bad person for liking stuff from Korea and Japan? Should I start hating the countries now that I've been to them? D=
Damn. I guess I'm super uncool now. Guess I'll never get the title of homecoming queen... |
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happiness
Joined: 04 Sep 2010
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| Posted: Thu Feb 10, 2011 4:12 am Post subject: |
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| eamo wrote: |
I did work with an American who had married a Korean girl, dressed in Hanbok sometimes, loved all korean food, and studied Korean lang extensively......he was the most immersed foreigner in Korea I'd met......until....
......until.....our boss pulled some Korea-boss-style-shafting on him.....then he was totally American again! Shouting his head off at the boss in the teachers room etc.....ditching all concepts of confucian 'harmony'..... |
i know a few guys here like that, me too, but noone can go confucian. we men need our nuts! |
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Lastrova
Joined: 30 Dec 2010
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| Posted: Thu Feb 10, 2011 4:32 am Post subject: |
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| Tundra_Creature wrote: |
Am I a bad person for liking stuff from Korea and Japan? Should I start hating the countries now that I've been to them? D=
Damn. I guess I'm super uncool now. Guess I'll never get the title of homecoming queen... |
I think this suffix, "ophile", needs some extracting. If you're a Japanophile, you're not only immersed in the language and popular culture, but the traditions, philosophies, etiquette, aesthetics, religion, history, erotica, the behavior and sensibilities. You're a connoisseur. I'd really like to hear what that all means in Korea. Hey, I like stuff in Korea, too, but if you think that's it, you guys are in way over your heads. |
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Kurtz
Joined: 05 Jan 2007
Location: ples bilong me
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| Posted: Thu Feb 10, 2011 5:03 am Post subject: |
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| Lastrova, you've gotta be TheGipkik reincarnated right? Why the name change? |
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tomato
Joined: 31 Jan 2003
Location: I get so little foreign language experience, I must be in Koreatown, Los Angeles.
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| Posted: Thu Feb 10, 2011 5:18 am Post subject: |
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| kohmelo wrote: |
They even type in Korean, watch K-dramas, listen to K-pop, dress and look like they are Korean (which makes them look like r'tards.) And they always talk about how much they love Korea and Koreans..
Yet, ask them if they've been to Korea they always give the same answer..
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That's how I was about Bolivia.
Then I actually went to Bolivia, not expecting to have a problem in the world, and found that I had bragged too soon.
This time, I knew better.
| Tundra_Creature wrote: |
| Am I a bad person for liking stuff from Korea and Japan? Should I start hating the countries now that I've been to them? |
That depends.
Do you really have those feelings, or are you merely reciting the party line?
| eamo wrote: |
I did work with an American who had married a Korean girl, dressed in Hanbok sometimes, loved all korean food, and studied Korean lang extensively......he was the most immersed foreigner in Korea I'd met......until....
......until.....our boss pulled some Korea-boss-style-shafting on him.....then he was totally American again! Shouting his head off at the boss in the teachers room etc.....ditching all concepts of confucian 'harmony'..... |
I wonder why it is considered such a status symbol to marry a Korean.
I've worked under two wegukin's who married Koreans, and both of them were real bimbos.
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| Yet, ask them if they've been to Korea they always give the same answer.. |
I love Korea/Koreans.
I live in Korea.
Explain THAT.
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Globutron, I hear what you are saying.
And I hear what some of the other contributors have been saying.
I think it is good that you folks want to mix and mingle with Koreans rather than spending all your time in Western bars with other wegukins, watching Western movies, and listening to Western pop songs.
But there is a right way and a wrong way to approach Koreans.
If you see Koreans as real people rather than sociological curiosities, fine.
I don't know where the rest of you are from, but in my country, there are a lot of White people who go up and shake hands with every Black person they see.
The Black people resent that.
Conversely, there are a lot of Black people who respond to White people the same way.
The White people resent that.
| oldtactics wrote: |
| Thank goodness there isn't anywhere in the world that idolizes and admires American culture & the English language... |
| Steelrails wrote: |
How dare people like Koreans when they should be liking us.
EDIT- Then I assume that the idea of Koreans in Korea dressing like us, enjoying our food and entertainment, and speaking our language is equally ludicrous. |
That works both ways between Koreans and wegukins here,
just like it works both ways between Black people and White people back home.
Haven't you ever resented Koreans expecting you to put on a song and dance for them just because you're a wegukin? |
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Cyrs3
Joined: 11 Jun 2009
Location: USA
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| Posted: Thu Feb 10, 2011 6:08 am Post subject: |
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I'm 22
I'm female
I've never been to Korea.
I love all things Korean! I guess that makes me one of the girls like the OP is talking about. However I think it's a bit different because I take everything with a grain of salt.
I'm going to Korea in a week (Finally after 4years of wanting to go there) and I don't expect it to be like the dramas I watch. haha thats like saying all surgeons are like the ones on greys anatomy. I get a bad rep from a lot of other white people here because I'm a ---phile, but honestly I don't know why its a bad thing.
Watching Korean dramas simply makes me happy, plus it doesn't go on for 13 seasons! All the drama of Greys, without the length. I like korean music because it's catchy and makes me smile and dance. And I think most of the girls you are talking about are similar to me. Young, find things to do with Korea Facinating, looking for an escape from reality for a bit, and poor.
I know everyone is going to jump on the whole escape from reality thing... I'm not expecting Korea to be better to me than here, but it's a place where know one knows me so I can be completely different. plus the people are cute and other people will know who Big Bang is (no one here knows who they are T.T)! |
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Privateer
Joined: 31 Aug 2005
Location: Easy Street.
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| Posted: Thu Feb 10, 2011 6:16 am Post subject: Re: People who say they love Korea/Koreans... |
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I met some people in Singapore who were like that cos they got their image of Korea from dramas and pop. Hallyu at work. I also met a Spanish couple who were a bit like that.
I'm so horribly cynical. I just immediately thought 'Wait till you go there. You have no idea'.
| shinramyun wrote: |
One word:
WEEABOOS |
That word is just never going to catch on. |
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Cyrs3
Joined: 11 Jun 2009
Location: USA
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| Posted: Thu Feb 10, 2011 6:31 am Post subject: |
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| Ahhh Weaboo... so thats the term for those wierd anime people who give me a bad name. good to know. gosh they give anyone who gas a general interest in asia a bad name. Hate them plus they are freaking annoying. |
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redaxe
Joined: 01 Dec 2008
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| Posted: Thu Feb 10, 2011 7:30 am Post subject: Re: People who say they love Korea/Koreans... |
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| Privateer wrote: |
I met some people in Singapore who were like that cos they got their image of Korea from dramas and pop. Hallyu at work. I also met a Spanish couple who were a bit like that.
I'm so horribly cynical. I just immediately thought 'Wait till you go there. You have no idea'.
| shinramyun wrote: |
One word:
WEEABOOS |
That word is just never going to catch on. |
Where I come from we just call them "Wapanese."
Those nerds completely ruined Japanese class for me in university, always asking the teacher how to say their nerdy anime/manga words.
One kid asked the teacher "How do you say 'blazing inferno?'"
My response: "Maybe you should learn how to just say "fire" first!"
Idiot. |
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cyui
Joined: 10 Jan 2011
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You will only like where you are from as it is what is ingrained inside your soul.
If Korea is not your culture, then your not really expected to understand, just accept it for the way it is and do the best you can while you are there. |
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