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Korea is scary!!
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typo



Joined: 16 Jun 2009

PostPosted: Mon Sep 07, 2009 7:13 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Well, I guess it's one way to practice your English. Too bad for you that no one in the thread is pointing out specific errors because the entire writing is so shoddy.

Good game, though. maybe the folks in your native forums are more gullible.
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catchshime



Joined: 25 Jun 2009
Location: "I am not born for one corner; the whole world is my native land."

PostPosted: Mon Sep 07, 2009 11:17 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

tzechuk wrote:
I wouldn't necessarily say Korea is scary, but Korea WAS backwards when I first came in 2000. I was a bit shocked...


word choice? where were you exactly to think this?
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Captain Corea



Joined: 28 Feb 2005
Location: Seoul

PostPosted: Mon Sep 07, 2009 2:48 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

roll_eks wrote:
oskinny1 wrote:
Why should someone say "hi" to you just because you have the same skin color?

What is rude is complaining about a country before you even had a chance to experience it.


not because of skin color: just because being "non-korean" puts us in the same boat, methinks.


No, from the looks of your OP, we're not in the same boat.
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One2many



Joined: 22 Nov 2006

PostPosted: Mon Sep 07, 2009 9:32 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Heh. Everyone's jumpin' on this guy but the truth is Korea is pretty ghetto fabulous. The last thing I want though is another person comming up to me to say "hi"... WTF man I already feel like a freakin animal at the zoo with old guys coming up and feeling my arm hair and ahgeemahs poking my tattoos.
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shinramyun



Joined: 31 Jul 2009

PostPosted: Tue Sep 08, 2009 1:00 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

^ you should always take an advantage of that situation.
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roll_eks



Joined: 31 Aug 2009
Location: Seoul from Nevada

PostPosted: Tue Sep 08, 2009 6:33 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

One2many wrote:
The last thing I want though is another person comming up to me to say "hi"... WTF man I already feel like a freakin animal at the zoo with old guys coming up and feeling my arm hair and ahgeemahs poking my tattoos.


yeah, i now think i'd rather not be approached by other whities here. coming to terms with the aborigines is already enough of a task.
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Steelrails



Joined: 12 Mar 2009
Location: Earth, Solar System

PostPosted: Wed Sep 09, 2009 9:45 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The headline on Detnews.com The Detroit News Website- Getting Away With Murder Is the Norm in Detroit.

http://detnews.com/article/20090910/METRO01/909100372/Getting-away-with-murder-is-the-norm-in-Detroit

So I guess the question is- do you feel safer in Korea or Detroit?

We all the know the answer.

Korea is scary. Detroit is SCARY.
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DWAEJIMORIGUKBAP



Joined: 28 May 2009
Location: Electron cloud

PostPosted: Wed Sep 09, 2009 9:52 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I love the way the posts in this thread re-hash all the classic troll topics such as

'why don't other waeygooks say hi to me on the street'

'Korea is smelly / dirty etc.'

'Koreans are rude / weird' etc

etc...
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roll_eks



Joined: 31 Aug 2009
Location: Seoul from Nevada

PostPosted: Thu Sep 10, 2009 2:46 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

DWAEJIMORIGUKBAP wrote:
I love the way the posts in this thread re-hash all the classic troll topics such as

'why don't other waeygooks say hi to me on the street'

'Korea is smelly / dirty etc.'

'Koreans are rude / weird' etc

etc...


yes, somehow i think that an apology is in order here: i spent pretty much of my life confines in nevada, went to la for education, traveled once to arizona and new york, but never went outside of my country (except canada) for pleasure or for work. i should have read the other posts first, before posting my own. now, a two weeks later, i gut somehow used to function in korea, take the subway without getting lost, ordering food by phone, etc.
i came here to assume my position totally unprepaired. frankly i had a hard time to locate korea on the map before i took the job. anyway, i'm still working on myself, and still bitching about korea, but hey, i should be thankful for the great opportunity this is to explore the world and make $$$.
i'm sure i'll laugh in a year or so, thinking back about now.
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catchshime



Joined: 25 Jun 2009
Location: "I am not born for one corner; the whole world is my native land."

PostPosted: Thu Sep 10, 2009 2:50 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

oh, Korea, the kind of people you will hire to learn English...
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DWAEJIMORIGUKBAP



Joined: 28 May 2009
Location: Electron cloud

PostPosted: Thu Sep 10, 2009 3:11 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

catchshime wrote:
oh, Korea, the kind of people you will hire to learn English...


pot / kettle?

I mean cool, superconstructive, high flying people don't spend their spare time making pointless posts on an obscure message board.

ahem....
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roll_eks



Joined: 31 Aug 2009
Location: Seoul from Nevada

PostPosted: Thu Sep 10, 2009 5:09 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

DWAEJIMORIGUKBAP wrote:
catchshime wrote:
oh, Korea, the kind of people you will hire to learn English...


pot / kettle?

I mean cool, superconstructive, high flying people don't spend their spare time making pointless posts on an obscure message board.

ahem....


well, i guess most of us contribute to this board during work, no? right now, i'm having "office hours" and having a conversatiom while im typing right now...lol.
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beercanman



Joined: 16 May 2009

PostPosted: Fri Sep 11, 2009 10:42 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Construct your posts carefully and you will have fewer critics. Prove you can actually type proper sentences and paragraphs. Everything you say may have validity, but if the grammar and spelling is terrible no one will respect anything you say.

Seriously.
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Swami



Joined: 13 Jan 2006

PostPosted: Fri Sep 11, 2009 11:06 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Almost everyone I have met in Korea have been pleasant and reasonable. I don't know where the wankers that frequent this board live but it is not the same country that I live in.

If you want to live in your on paranoid world then by all mean do, but don't infect the newbys that are trying to find their way.

I'm sure you have saved enough money to buy some amazing house and have a wife who puts up with you blabber but that doesn't mean that everyone else should listen to it.

I'm amazed by the people that have taken so much from Korea but complain about the most unimportant things.

Go read some books and keep you racist comments to your self.















I like beer.
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roll_eks



Joined: 31 Aug 2009
Location: Seoul from Nevada

PostPosted: Sun Sep 13, 2009 5:58 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Swami wrote:
Almost everyone I have met in Korea have been pleasant and reasonable.


I like beer.


yes. do keep liking, licking, and sticking to your beer, and everyone and everything will be pleasant and reasonable.
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