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Qinella
Joined: 25 Feb 2005
Location: the crib
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 Posted: Tue Aug 01, 2006 2:33 am Post subject: Re: How Much Do Koreans Know About Western Culture? |
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| Dev wrote: |
How many Koreans know about Guniess Beer, Ireland's #1 exported good?
How many Koreans know about Led Zeppelin, John Lennon, Guns 'n Roses...?
How many Koreans know who Mike Myers or Edward Norton is?
How many Koreans know about Fish & Chips?
I've talked to some Koreans and they don't know about some of the above things. I'm a little surprised. |
Why are you surprised? How much do Westerners know about Korean culture?
Btw, I had a dream the other night that I saw Mike Myers, but accidentally greeted him by a different name and he was a little sad.  |
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Dev
Joined: 18 Apr 2006
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| Posted: Tue Aug 01, 2006 7:01 am Post subject: |
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| Knowing about different kinds of beer is hardly evidence of a cultured person. |
Beer, I believe is a part of many Koreans' daily lives as computers and cars are of the typical Westerner. Yet, ask any westerner if she/he knows Samsung or Hyundai and 8 out of 10 will instantly recognize it.
Guiness is Ireland's #1 export product (and that's including all categories of products) yet most Koreans would tell you they've never heard of it. This tells you what Korea's idea of trade is.  |
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eamo
Joined: 08 Mar 2003
Location: Shepherd's Bush, 1964.
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| Posted: Tue Aug 01, 2006 7:09 am Post subject: |
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| Dev wrote: |
| Corporal wrote: |
| Knowing about different kinds of beer is hardly evidence of a cultured person. |
Beer, I believe is a part of many Koreans' daily lives as computers and cars are of the typical Westerner. Yet, ask any westerner if she/he knows Samsung or Hyundai and 8 out of 10 will instantly recognize it.
Guiness is Ireland's #1 export product (and that's including all categories of products) yet most Koreans would tell you they've never heard of it. This tells you what Korea's idea of trade is. |
Although I get your point that koreans love to export and hate to import I still think it's a little unfair to expect Koreans to know lots of stuff about the West. You're speaking as a person who travels. The Koreans I know who have travelled much tend to know these cultural details. |
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SPINOZA
Joined: 10 Jun 2005
Location: $eoul
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| Posted: Tue Aug 01, 2006 10:38 pm Post subject: |
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Koreans' familiarity with fish and chips and guinness and the like doesn't deserve concern and perhaps the same re Lennon and Led Zepp - even though I'm a big fan.
The important things Koreans should know (and evidently don't if their surprise at a westerner's ability to eat only a moderately-hot Kimchi Jigay is anything to go by) is that we are from racially, ethnically, socially heterogenous societies and generally have a lot more choice as to what to eat, do, get into and so forth. They need to be educated that [white person] doesn't equal [what ever stereotypes come along with that]. Might've applied 100 years ago, but not now, especially given the western visitors to Korea have degrees and likely come from relatively wealthy homes (possibly excluding soldiers). Koreans seem to associate "America" with "white people" as opposed to "world melting pot". The Korean preoccupation with homogeneousness and racial purity results in a total inability to understand anything about the west, save for the most base drivel. |
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Newbie
Joined: 07 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Tue Aug 01, 2006 10:43 pm Post subject: |
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| Dev wrote: |
| Corporal wrote: |
| Knowing about different kinds of beer is hardly evidence of a cultured person. |
Beer, I believe is a part of many Koreans' daily lives as computers and cars are of the typical Westerner. Yet, ask any westerner if she/he knows Samsung or Hyundai and 8 out of 10 will instantly recognize it.
Guiness is Ireland's #1 export product (and that's including all categories of products) yet most Koreans would tell you they've never heard of it. This tells you what Korea's idea of trade is. |
ask me 5 years ago about Samsung and Hyundai and I would think Japan.
as well, Korea is a lame beer market. not surprising they don't know anything decent |
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drumpounder
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