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Hyalucent
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: British North America
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| coolsage wrote: |
| Hence, Spam has become an icon of those days, which is why the price quadruples at this time of year, once you package it in a fancy box. |
So can we expect SPAM to get a Korea Cultural Treasure Number from the government? |
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FliptheCoin
Joined: 11 Feb 2003
Location: Korea Korea you remind me of a west side story....
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| Posted: Thu Sep 11, 2003 11:05 pm Post subject: |
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Yeah Baby! Three huge ass cans of sesame oil. And this is leaving in 2 months.
One of my 300 students did give me a 10 pack of pantyhose. The card was even cuter though. I saved it.
Oh well... |
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eamo
Joined: 08 Mar 2003
Location: Shepherd's Bush, 1964.
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| Posted: Fri Sep 12, 2003 12:39 am Post subject: |
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| A big box of Beef Jerky. Which someone totally ate on me....... |
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Blue Flower
Joined: 23 Feb 2003
Location: The realisation that I only have to endure two more weeks in this filthy, perverted, nasty place!
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| Posted: Fri Sep 12, 2003 1:52 am Post subject: |
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I didn't know that you got things at Chuseok, and was sitting in my apartment eating dinner, just about to go out to the local foreign bar, when my boss rings me up and tells me to come back to work as she wants to see me. I was thinking oh shit - does she want to fire me?
But then i rock in and get given an envelope of cash - 100,000 won!!!
I celebrated very well that night. As did the ethereal Wombat! |
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wendysue
Joined: 17 Apr 2003
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Fri Sep 12, 2003 5:52 am Post subject: |
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I did ok gift wise, though I'm still jealous of the teachers at my school who got gift boxes from the Body Shop...
My boss gave me underwear (assuring me that mine was the most expensice pair because it is "biggie size"  ), students gave me lots of dried fish and squid and also some shampoo and stuff. Yay! I like presents! |
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William Beckerson
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| Posted: Fri Sep 12, 2003 8:13 am Post subject: |
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| Well,I took all of the spam I got for chuseok and made art out of them. As soon as I get the photos scanned I'll share them all with you. |
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just because
Joined: 01 Aug 2003
Location: Changwon - 4964
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| Posted: Sat Sep 13, 2003 7:17 pm Post subject: |
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100 000 won bonus and my 2.2 million monthly payment 6 days early 
SWWEEEEEETTTT!!! |
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Zyzyfer
Joined: 29 Jan 2003
Location: who, what, where, when, why, how?
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| Posted: Sun Sep 14, 2003 5:10 am Post subject: |
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| eamo wrote: |
| A big box of Beef Jerky. Which someone totally ate on me....... |
Dude, I got a ginseng drink. Work with me here.
I'll spot you some jerky that doesn't need a big box just to look impressive. |
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bucheon bum
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Sun Sep 14, 2003 5:34 am Post subject: |
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| i was wrong, my boss hooked me up with canned tuna instead of spam. Still gave it to the g/friend. |
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Blue Flower
Joined: 23 Feb 2003
Location: The realisation that I only have to endure two more weeks in this filthy, perverted, nasty place!
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| Posted: Sun Sep 14, 2003 10:35 pm Post subject: |
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| And then my boss and her husband came round on Sat morning to bring me Chuseok food. I got these yummy little fritters, rice biscuit things, those gross rice cakes with the pine needles, fruit, and some little rice cakes. I feel totally spoiled and rather pleased with myself! Bring on Christmas. |
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jaderedux
Joined: 10 Jan 2003
Location: Lurking outside Seoul
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| Posted: Mon Sep 15, 2003 9:50 pm Post subject: |
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| gross rice cakes with the pine needles |
Songpyon sweetie.... 
I actually like them and even helped make some this year.....ouch my hands hurt and my children will be akin to godzilla since the ones I made were so damn ugly.
Got some fancy schmancy shampoo, the dreaded spam, a little $$, ddok, coffee, tea but didn't do as well this year...heavy sigh.....economy downturn dammit.
I want to see spam art.....that is just too cool to contemplate.
Jade |
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Corporal
Joined: 25 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Mon Sep 15, 2003 10:06 pm Post subject: |
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We got honey. A really nice gift set.
We were cheap though and re-Chuseoked my husband's uncle with it. Isn't that terrible? |
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jvalmer
Joined: 06 Jun 2003
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| Posted: Mon Sep 15, 2003 10:26 pm Post subject: |
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| indiercj wrote: |
When Korea was still poor the company usually gave them underwares or sox because these were very usefull to old folks especially during the coming winter and then gift box sets of oils and seasoning were invented later.
Happy ChuSok and a wonderful holiday to all of you~ |
I also heard that it is customary for the son/daughter to use his/her first pay cheque of their first job at a big company (we're talking Samsung, LG type companies) to buy underwear for the parents. Imagine $1000 in underwear. Also, spam is also popular in Japan. |
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RedRob
Joined: 07 Jul 2003
Location: Narnia
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| Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2003 6:02 am Post subject: |
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| I got told my pay will be late again. |
Haahaahaaa that's funny!!
Oh, wait a minute, me too  |
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princess
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: soul of Asia
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| Posted: Wed Sep 17, 2003 5:54 am Post subject: |
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| Got a 100,000 won Chuseok bonus and a few days before that, I got canned!!! Nice. |
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