Korean Job Discussion Forums

ashke516 · Joined: 01 Mar 2005 Location: on the beach

1-Do you take you shoes off in your house? (has it changed being in Korea "if" you live here?)

-Most of the time when I was back home, all the time here in Korea.

2-Do you know your blood type? (If yes, how/when did you learn it?)

-Yes, type O. High School in bio class. We had to type our own blood in lab.

3-Where are you from? (Just country and maybe region will do)

-Midwest, Great Lakes Region of the States.

NearlyKorean · Joined: 15 Mar 2003 Location: Phoenix, AZ

1-Do you take you shoes off in your house? (has it changed being in Korea "if" you live here?)

I did growing up but I didn't after I moved out and had a place of my own. I do all the time here in Korea and I have single housing

2-Do you know your blood type? (If yes, how/when did you learn it?)

Yes, type A+. Only test I ever got an "A+" on. I found out from the American red cross and donating with them. However, a doctor told me that wasn't my blood type, but then didn't tell what my blood type was, because he would have to look it up. So I think he was blowing smoke.

3-Where are you from? (Just country and maybe region will do)

Washington State (USA)

wowser · Joined: 14 Apr 2004 Location: Kyonggi do

1 Do yo take off your shoes...
Occasionally at home, all the time in Korea....

2. Do you know your blood type...
I had been told (because I'm a donor) but then forgot. I was tested again in Korea because, like Taegu Girl, I wanted to be able to answer my students' questions.

3. Where are you from..
NZ

Freezer Burn · Joined: 11 Apr 2005 Location: Busan

1. Yes I take my shoes off, here and at home

2. Yes, Chinese medical exam I needed to know

3. Napier, New Zealand..... But I live in Brisbane, Australia.

Captain Corea · Joined: 28 Feb 2005 Location: Seoul

thanks for the help guys, keep 'em coming.

Son Deureo! · Joined: 30 Apr 2003

1. I didn't grow up taking off my shoes at home, I only started doing that when I lived in carpeted apartments in my mid-20s. I take my shoes off at home in Korea, but I didn't at first. It just seemed like an idiotic superstition. Then I realized that the cheap linoleum on my floor was getting ruined, and fast. I take off my shoes now.

2. I don't know, and I don't want to know. When my students ask, I tell them I've never been tested, but I must be AB (the genius blood type).

3. I'm from Western New York state, USA

pet lover · Joined: 02 Jan 2004 Location: not in Seoul

1. Yes, I take off my shoes when I come inside and I did that before I ever came to Korea.

2. Yes, I think I know it. I could be wrong though. I didn't know before I came to Korea. I used to think I remembered a nurse telling me one of those times I was checked into a hospital, but my memory is extremely fuzzy on that point, I've recently realized, so really, I guess I should say, "No, I don't know." (and don't care)

3. I'm from the US.

jajdude · Joined: 18 Jan 2003

Yep I always have taken off my shoes, except sometimes when in a hurry.

I do not know my blood type.

From Atlantic Canada, lol.............. I'm from Newfoundland.

peony · Joined: 30 Mar 2005

1. yes, always take my shoes off no matter where i live
2. yes, did it as part of lab class in freshman bio, high school
3. NE USA/ NYC

canuck in Ansan · Joined: 27 Jul 2005

1. I've always taken my shoes off in the house (unless i'm running in for something, and iff my shoes are clean!)

2. Wish i knew my blood type! Its nothing rare, that's all I know.

3. From the Annapolis Valley, Nova Scotia, Canada

I've often noticed that many Americans often don't take their shoes off in the house when I've been in the states. (and many answers here support that). Not saying that this applies to everyone, and not only in the States, but it seems to me to be more common to take shoes off in the house outside of the states.

billybrobby · Joined: 09 Dec 2004

1. in america, no. here, yes
2. A. i learned after living here because everybody asked me and i was tired of not knowing
3. see question 1

SuperHero · Joined: 10 Dec 2003 Location: Superhero Hideout

Zyzyfer · Posted: Sat Aug 13, 2005 2:32 am Post subject:

1. Most of the time. Not if I'm just hopping in to grab something or am bringing something heavy in. Back home, it depended on the house rules. Usually I'd take them off somewhere other than at the door, though.

2. Yes, I know it, but I don't remember how I learned it.

3. I'm from Hampton Roads, Virginia.

Ody · Joined: 27 Jan 2003 Location: over here

yes, both here and in my home country.

yes, another blood doner in the mix.

USA - East Coast

d503 · Joined: 16 Oct 2004 Location: Daecheong, Seoul

1. Nope usually left them on in the states. I do here though
2. B+ been a blood donor since it was legal to do so.
3. Chicago, USA