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spicy
Joined: 25 Oct 2009
Location: Sinchon / Ewha / Hongdae
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| duh, that's Samsung's newly invented Korean Cloaking Device |
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Squire
Joined: 26 Sep 2010
Location: Jeollanam-do
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| Posted: Sat Oct 22, 2011 1:43 am Post subject: |
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The classrooms have sliding doors.
Some floors in a department store have no check outs. Very confusing the first time I realised that and walked for about 15 minutes looking for where to pay
All farming I've seen is arable. I suppose that's a pretty big difference
Farmland never appears to fenced
The tiny tractors farmers drive, often with a couple of halmonis sitting on the back
Women do mens' jobs here, like trade jobs. I don't think I've ever seen a woman on a construction site back home and I worked on a couple
There are a lot more scooters on the road here. Mine, for example
There are bears in Korea
Sometimes the teachers have to do extremely menial things. My school is turning it's dirt field outside into a grass field at the moment. One day I saw my coteacher outside apparently tilling the earth with a fork! That made my day. It was the equivolent of scrubbing a gym hall with a toothbrush  |
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jvalmer
Joined: 06 Jun 2003
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| Posted: Sat Oct 22, 2011 1:49 am Post subject: |
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No daytime running lights on cars.
Koreans turn off headlights when stopped at intersections at night. |
I've been in taxis whose driver turned off the lights at intersections......but my Koreans skills weren't up to asking why they did it.....is it a courtesy to the car in front? To not dazzle him? Or do they have some weird old idea that it saves on the battery? |
I've been informed it's a courtesy to the car in front of them and on the opposite side. Then I told them they would think all drivers in Canada are rude. I remember driving a rented car and having my signal lights on (the setting between off and full headlights) and some random person was so concerned she knocked on the window of my passenger window to inform me they were on.
Also noticed a lot of highways have funky shields in the median to deflect the lights from the other-side, which would be a great addition in Canada, but I guess the distances are just to great to make it financially practical. |
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alwaysgood
Joined: 15 Aug 2011
Location: Changwon
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T-J
Joined: 10 Oct 2008
Location: Seoul EunpyungGu Yeonsinnae
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| Posted: Sat Oct 22, 2011 6:35 am Post subject: |
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여기는 저기 아니고 저기가 여기 아닙니다. 이것은 깨달으면 인생을 편하게 질 것이다.�
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joelove
Joined: 12 May 2011
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| Posted: Sat Oct 22, 2011 10:24 pm Post subject: |
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| Squire wrote: |
There are bears in Korea
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No bears back home? |
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Stout
Joined: 28 May 2011
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| Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2011 4:21 am Post subject: |
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| UlsanBoy wrote: |
| You never see anyone reading. ever. |
Ever ride the subway? |
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Lazio
Joined: 15 Dec 2010
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| Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2011 4:53 am Post subject: |
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| Stout wrote: |
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| You never see anyone reading. ever. |
Ever ride the subway? |
Everybody is burried in their smartphones and tablets. And they are not reading e-books on those either.
Maybe 5-10 years ago it was different but these days the book reader : electric gadget user ratio is somewhere way below 1:10. 1:20 or even 1:30 perhaps. |
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Stout
Joined: 28 May 2011
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| Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2011 8:03 am Post subject: |
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| Lazio wrote: |
| Stout wrote: |
| UlsanBoy wrote: |
| You never see anyone reading. ever. |
Ever ride the subway? |
Everybody is burried in their smartphones and tablets. And they are not reading e-books on those either.
Maybe 5-10 years ago it was different but these days the book reader : electric gadget user ratio is somewhere way below 1:10. 1:20 or even 1:30 perhaps. |
You could say the same for just about any other developed country with a taste for technology.
Point is, Ulsan boy was saying he never sees anyone reading, as in no one. 'Ever.'
And I'm sure you are 100% correct that Koreans don't read e-books on the subway. How could any Korean ever be interested in doing something to enrich their mind?
And all those Koreans in the bookstores? Just killing time, right? |
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NYC_Gal 2.0
Joined: 10 Dec 2010
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| Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2011 4:36 pm Post subject: |
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| I see people reading books on the subway all the time. More are playing with their smartphones or tablets, but many still read. |
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DejaVu
Joined: 27 Jan 2011
Location: Your dreams
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| Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2011 4:50 pm Post subject: |
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| NYC_Gal 2.0 wrote: |
| I see people reading books on the subway all the time. More are playing with their smartphones or tablets, but many still read. |
I rarely see it...
I guess it all depends on which subway you're riding... |
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TheUrbanMyth
Joined: 28 Jan 2003
Location: Retired
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| Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2011 6:27 pm Post subject: |
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| DejaVu wrote: |
| NYC_Gal 2.0 wrote: |
| I see people reading books on the subway all the time. More are playing with their smartphones or tablets, but many still read. |
I rarely see it...
I guess it all depends on which subway you're riding... |
I'd guess it depends on what people want to see... |
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Lazio
Joined: 15 Dec 2010
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| Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2011 7:27 pm Post subject: |
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| Stout wrote: |
| Lazio wrote: |
| Stout wrote: |
| UlsanBoy wrote: |
| You never see anyone reading. ever. |
Ever ride the subway? |
Everybody is burried in their smartphones and tablets. And they are not reading e-books on those either.
Maybe 5-10 years ago it was different but these days the book reader : electric gadget user ratio is somewhere way below 1:10. 1:20 or even 1:30 perhaps. |
You could say the same for just about any other developed country with a taste for technology.
Point is, Ulsan boy was saying he never sees anyone reading, as in no one. 'Ever.'
And I'm sure you are 100% correct that Koreans don't read e-books on the subway. How could any Korean ever be interested in doing something to enrich their mind?
And all those Koreans in the bookstores? Just killing time, right? |
You brought up the "reading on the subway" to support your theory that Koreans do read.
While I've never said that they don't read, the subway is really not a good example to prove the opposite.
Sure people read here. What a mind blowing thing; they read at the bookstores. They also have things here called library and guess what, people read there. Shocking as it sounds, they also read at home.
As for the subway: if you exclude those reading textbooks because they didn't do their homework or preparing for an exam and only count those who read novels and whatnot, you could finish with the counting very fast.
There are mainly dramas or other TV programs and kakao talk running on those smartphones, that's a fact too. |
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Steelrails
Joined: 12 Mar 2009
Location: Earth, Solar System
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| Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2011 8:59 pm Post subject: |
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I think one reason most people don't read books on the subway is that most people are traveling light. I mean what do you expect some guy in a suit to do? Lug around a backpack? If I could read Korean I would stick to a newspaper- light, cheap, and I can leave it there and not have to carry it around.
And you can read books on your smartphone too. |
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Stout
Joined: 28 May 2011
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| Posted: Mon Oct 24, 2011 5:32 am Post subject: |
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| NYC_Gal 2.0 wrote: |
| I see people reading books on the subway all the time. More are playing with their smartphones or tablets, but many still read. |
Prety much what I was saying.
It's actually not that big of a deal.
Koreans do read on the subway, whether that would involve books, newspapers, textbooks, e-books on smartphones/tablets, what-have-you, and that's pretty much all it was ever about if you bother to check the original posting. |
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