Korean Job Discussion Forums

[TheUrbanMyth]

[oldtrafford]

Who gives a rats......bum!!

To be living in the Korean countryside means you must have committed many sins in your past life, the pain or my the pain!!!

[Modernist]

[Steelrails]

[PatrickGHBusan]

Friends are about compatibility and shared interests...thats kind of universal.

Now if you are the type of person who spues off things like "KOREANS are.... (insert comment here)" well then that says a lot about you and very little about Koreans.

I made many Korean friends in Korea, most foreign teachers I met that ventured outside the wayguk bar circle also made such friends. Others did not. To each his or her own.

[markhan]

Its kind of funny because I have never met anyone Korean who called himself as a "Jew-like," as majority of Koreans don't really know about Jewish. I say "funny" because its Western media press that have frequently compared Asian (Koreans included) with Jewish as they strongly emphasize education, family tradition, etc.

[ZIFA]

[tiger fancini]

[Unposter]

This thread is just terrible.

People are people. Everyone is different. I think you will find many different individuals here with many different outlooks on life from xenophobia to ultra-progressive-liberal.

Are Koreans and Jews the same? Well, which Korean and which Jew are you talking about? Is there a Korean Woody Allen? Is there a Korean Benjamin Netanyahu (sp?)?

Come on. What are we really talking about? Stereotypes?

The few good posts I saw is that making friends in Korea is a lot like making friends any place else. It really helps if you have something in common.

Then, there is all those well, I live in the countryside and I've never experienced racism falacy. This is one of the worst kind of posts. These type of posters expect everyone to have had their experience, otherwise they deny other people's experience.

Here is my advice - if you are really interested in Korea and coming to Korea - just come and find out for yourself. And, take everything you read on Dave's with a grain of salt. And, remember the Chinese are not Communists (though there government is), the Japanese are not capitalists (they have a surprisingly mixed economy) and the Koreans are not somewhere in the middle (though their government might be) - there are hundreds of millions of people in East Asia and they all have different personalities, different ideas about politics, race and economics.

Think about it. Experience it. Make your own conclusions.

[PatrickGHBusan]

[Jotun_Symph]

Try doing activities besides hanging out, talking or drinking with them. In my experience, Koreans open up much more if you share a common passion for something; in my case, hiking, baseball, and playing the guitar. Everybody has hobbies, but Koreans tend to make their hobbies part of who they are much more than we do, and most are delighted to engage in sport/leisure with others of the same mind, foreigner or not.

On the flipside, most Koreans I've met who enjoy a hobby are borderline obsessed with it so that any other suggested activity is unacceptable :)

[gem]

[toby99]

The best approach to living here is to take a "grin-and-bear-it" posture. Make friends with booze, and boozers, and accept the fact that life here for all the but the very wealthy is nasty, brutish, and long. Cutthroat capitalism is the name of the game and, in the Korean mind, if you can't spot the sucker in the room, you are the sucker. Come here, make your money to pay off your debts, etc. and get out. Shangri-la this ain't.

[Steelrails]

[TheUrbanMyth]