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Corporal
Joined: 25 Jan 2003
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I had to go back and re-read shakuhachi's original post, which is even more ridiculous and far-fetched than it seemed the first time. Here are some gems from this big thinker:
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| Korean people are always talking up Korea and Korean people. |
Brilliant observation. I've never met any members of a country that were actually proud of their country before, have you?
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| Only a small minority of Korean girls are virgins when they get married, although they will still claim they are. |
Did you take a poll? How scientific of you.
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| Then Koreans have the nerve to imply that western girls are sluts |
Many Koreans don't have the opportunity to interact with the vast majority of western girls, so they only have magazines and what Hollywood gives them to make their judgements on the issue. I'd come to the conclusion that Western girls are pretty free and easy too.
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| Then you have Korean guys warning Korean girls that the foreigner is dangerous. |
More scientific observations from the master mind of shakuhachi: ALL Korean guys warn ALL Korean girls that ALL foreigners are dangerous.
(And matthewwormford can vouch for this one because he heard it happened once.) 
Really, I advise you go back and edit your post because it makes you look silly beyond belief. |
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matthewwoodford
Joined: 01 Oct 2003
Location: Location, location, location.
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| Posted: Sat Oct 09, 2004 5:32 am Post subject: |
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I'd say when it happens to a friend of yours it's personal experience not merely 'hearing that it happened once'. Also, saying that 'you have Korean guys warning Korean girls that foreign men are dangerous' means it happens on occasion, not that ALL Korean men do it ALL the time. Maybe you have trouble understanding English, ''craporal''?
If you're capable of replying to shakahuchi's message in Korean go ahead. It seems you aren't. |
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sadsac
Joined: 22 Dec 2003
Location: Gwangwang
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| Posted: Sat Oct 09, 2004 5:49 am Post subject: |
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I enjoy reading and learning about Korean culture and also experiencing elements of it. Korea has a fascinating history. Maybe more Koreans should study it.  |
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captain kirk
Joined: 29 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Sat Oct 09, 2004 7:03 am Post subject: |
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| Down in Ulsan here there are full blown forts made by the Japanese before the Turtle boat battle messed with their supply ships, navy, and they went home. One's in the center of town, another is 20kms south. The 'southern one' is in perfect shape on a small mountaintop. Right on the coast, within sight of it, is what looks like a small, green mountain in what is now a village. It's not, it's the 'lower fort', big old pines growing on the flat top. There's also a system of invasion warning signal pyres on a series of mountain tops. These are all over Korea. But I've only seen the one on Namsan, and three of the ones around Ulsan. |
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The Bobster
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Sat Oct 09, 2004 8:10 am Post subject: |
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I gave myself an 8.
After 5 years here I am starting to learn more about Korean history, and the forces that have come into play at various times to make it the way it is now - and I find myself with a level of fascination about it all that surprises me.
I've also noticed things about myself that are different, how the way I enjoy my free time now is different from how it was when I lived back in the States, and how things attract and stimulate me here in ways that wouyld never have been true back in the old neighborhood. I'm less likely to judge Koreans negatively, though I never was what you'd call a "whiner," and I find that when I do discuss negative aspects of life here with my Korean friends they usually turn out to be things that no one feels discomfort hearing due to the fact that they are obvious problems that no one can disagree with.
In those discussions it probably helps that there is a clear context to it that I am someone who loves this place ... if not, after 5 years I would have been long gone, of course. |
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kiwiboy_nz_99
Joined: 05 Jul 2003
Location: ...Enlightenment...
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| Posted: Sat Oct 09, 2004 9:18 am Post subject: |
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| What do you mean by culture? Do you mean the language, the history, the art, the temples, the older beliefs and customs, or culture as I understand it, ei the current national zeitgeist or mindset. If the latter, no I'm not interested at all. I like studying the language though. |
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trevorcollins
Joined: 02 Jul 2004
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| Posted: Sat Oct 09, 2004 9:23 am Post subject: |
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| kiwiboy_nz_99 wrote: |
| What do you mean by culture? Do you mean the language, the history, the art, the temples, the older beliefs and customs, or culture as I understand it, ei the current national zeitgeist or mindset. If the latter, no I'm not interested at all. I like studying the language though. |
It encompasses all that stuff. Korean culture is pretty contradictory.
The battle between traditional confucionism and westernization.
Playing one card at various times when it suits, and the other at other times. Kind of seems to be a unique country in that respect. I guess the whole national identity crisis is a part of the culture. How's your knowledge of Korean....?
I'll give you the corp test.....�Τä�������Ӥ�/���۸���;����ĸ�.
Do you agree or disagree with that statement....? Huh, Kim Ki Wi....?  |
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kiwiboy_nz_99
Joined: 05 Jul 2003
Location: ...Enlightenment...
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| Posted: Sat Oct 09, 2004 9:30 am Post subject: |
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| Trevor Collins wrote: |
I'll give you the corp test.....�Τä�������Ӥ�/���۸���;����ĸ�.
Do you agree or disagree with that statement....? Huh, Kim Ki Wi....? |
That says "I, Trevor, am an uneducated man from the far reaches of the Australian outback. I had never seen a salad till I moved to Melbourne in my late thirties. I've also never had a girlfriend. But I can play a mean version of "The Man from Snowy River" on my ukelele" |
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trevorcollins
Joined: 02 Jul 2004
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| Posted: Sat Oct 09, 2004 9:34 am Post subject: |
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| kiwiboy_nz_99 wrote: |
| Trevor Collins wrote: |
I'll give you the corp test.....�Τä�������Ӥ�/���۸���;����ĸ�.
Do you agree or disagree with that statement....? Huh, Kim Ki Wi....? |
That says "I, Trevor, am an uneducated man from the far reaches of the Australian outback. I had never seen a salad till I moved to Melbourne in my late thirties. I've also never had a girlfriend. But I can play a mean version of "The Man from Snowy River" on my ukelele" |
Obviously you disagree then, right....?
Actually I'm from Philidelphia. Don't afflict me with YOUR demons, Mr Sock Puppet multiple personality disorder boy.
BTW.....
WTF is a salad....? 
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maxxx_power
Joined: 17 Mar 2003
Location: BWAHAHAHAHA! I'M FREE!!!!!!!
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| Posted: Sat Oct 09, 2004 10:00 am Post subject: |
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| i would have answed about -2 if it were an option. i gained nothing from my experience here. i just hope living here hasn't made me a worse person. |
I would have rated my interest in Korea, Koreans, and their Kulture a -10.
I know that living here has made me a worse person. It'll take time to erase the traits I've adopted in this festering shit hole of a country.
Today I told some guy on the subway to "*beep* off" because he wouldn't stop talking to me. I regularly knock people out of my way when they walk into me, flip off groups of children who yell "HELLOHOWAREYOUNICETOMEETYOU!!!!!", and the smell of human feces wafting from every rotten corner of this cesspit nation doesn't even bother me anymore.
One more week.
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trevorcollins
Joined: 02 Jul 2004
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| Posted: Sat Oct 09, 2004 10:02 am Post subject: |
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| It'll take time to erase the traits I've adopted in this festering *beep* hole of a country. |
Actually hang onto them for a while longer. Most of them you'll need for Vietnam. |
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kiwiboy_nz_99
Joined: 05 Jul 2003
Location: ...Enlightenment...
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| Posted: Sat Oct 09, 2004 1:26 pm Post subject: |
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| Trevor Collins wrote: |
Obviously you disagree then, right....?
Actually I'm from Philidelphia. |
Oh, I think you Wilawumpia, yes, a small settlement a mere 1000 miles from the nearest dairy in Timbuktoo. Wonderful spot ... |
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Real Reality
Joined: 10 Jan 2003
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Sat Oct 09, 2004 3:32 pm Post subject: |
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The No. 1 procedure by far in Asia is a form of blepharoplasty, in which a crease is created above the eye by scalpel or by needle and thread; in the U.S., blepharoplasty also ranks near the top, but involves removing bags and fat around the eyes.
In China, Korea and Indonesia, where virginity is highly prized, young women go in for hymen reconstruction in time for their wedding night. In Japan, Indonesia and Korea, men ask for *beep*-enlargement procedures, in part to avoid shame when bathing en masse.
by Lisa Takeuchi Cullen
Changing Faces. TIME Asia Magazine. (August 5, 2002 / VOL. 160 NO. 4)
http://www.time.com/time/asia/covers/1101020805/story2.html
...South Korea's primary cosmetic obsession is with the eyes. Having bigger eyes is every girl's dream, and it can now be realized through a simple $800 operation,...
"Parents make their kids get plastic surgery," says Dr. Shim Hyung Bo, a plastic surgeon practicing in Seoul, "just like they make them study. They realize looks are important for success." Which means that in today's Korea, getting your eyes done can be easier than getting the keys to dad's car.
By Chisu Ko
Peer Pressure Plastics: Kids gotta have it too. TIME Asia Magazine. (August 5, 2002 / VOL. 160 NO. 4).
http://www.time.com/time/asia/covers/1101020805/plastics.html |
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trevorcollins
Joined: 02 Jul 2004
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| Posted: Sun Oct 10, 2004 12:28 am Post subject: |
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Obviously you disagree then, right....?
Actually I'm from Philidelphia. |
Oh, I think you Wilawumpia, yes, a small settlement a mere 1000 miles from the nearest dairy in Timbuktoo. Wonderful spot ... |
Did you just call me Wilawumpia....?  |
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matthewwoodford
Joined: 01 Oct 2003
Location: Location, location, location.
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| Posted: Sun Oct 10, 2004 8:14 am Post subject: |
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| Real Reality wrote: |
...South Korea's primary cosmetic obsession is with the eyes. Having bigger eyes is every girl's dream, and it can now be realized through a simple $800 operation,...
"Parents make their kids get plastic surgery," says Dr. Shim Hyung Bo, a plastic surgeon practicing in Seoul, "just like they make them study. They realize looks are important for success." Which means that in today's Korea, getting your eyes done can be easier than getting the keys to dad's car. |
I was gonna lay the blame for this obsession on Manga comicbook characters with their ginormous dewy eyes, but the parents don't read those do they? |
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