Korean Job Discussion Forums

as-ian · Joined: 04 Sep 2007 Location: Busan, South Korea

Thinking about some people's sleeping times, i randomly started to wonder about people's user names on Dave's ESL Cafe.

I have noticed some horridly interesting names. So if you feel like it, please explain the meaning and/or how you decided on your user name.

For me, i picked "as-ian" due to the fact that my friends have told me, for the last 25 years, that i must really be part asian. So they always reffered to me as "Asian" (my real name is Ian, so they would over-pronounce the "ian" part). Hope that makes sense. ^_~

karma police · Posted: Sun Sep 30, 2007 12:30 am Post subject:

mine? it is what it is, baby... Cool

laogaiguk · Joined: 06 Dec 2005 Location: somewhere in Korea

words for foreigner
Chinese = laowai
Japanese = gaijin
Korean = waeguk

hence, laogaiguk (I have lived in all three now).

tomato · Posted: Sun Sep 30, 2007 12:37 am Post subject:

My real name is Thomas.
The name is usually Koreanized to 토마스, which sounds like 토마토.
The children in my school tease me by calling me 토마토, whereupon I chase and tickle them.

Atavistic · Posted: Sun Sep 30, 2007 12:48 am Post subject:

It's a real English word.

endofthewor1d · Joined: 01 Apr 2003 Location: the end of the wor1d.

Big_Bird · Posted: Sun Sep 30, 2007 1:00 am Post subject:

I was just frivolously joining up (not thinking I'd be here years later - or I might have been more artsy-fartsy), saw a reference to Big Bird of Sesame Street at that moment and thought, "yeah, I'm a bird....and I've got big ...... "

Bondrock · Joined: 08 Oct 2006 Location: ^_^

the Flintstones were the Simpsons of my generation. They had characters like Stoney Curtis, Ann Margrock and of course: Jay Bondrock.

i posted here under my real name a few years ago., but i had used Bondrock on other sites and IRC relay chat since 1994.

There are imitators, but i am the original Bondrock on the internet.

Atavistic · Posted: Sun Sep 30, 2007 2:21 am Post subject:

endofthewor1d · Joined: 01 Apr 2003 Location: the end of the wor1d.

jaganath69 · Joined: 17 Jul 2003

It was my old email address, made up whilst traveling in India. A mix of the sacred and profane.

flakfizer · Posted: Sun Sep 30, 2007 3:18 am Post subject:

http://forums.eslcafe.com/korea/viewtopic.php?p=1295027&highlight=#1295027

http://forums.eslcafe.com/korea/viewtopic.php?t=447&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0

kimchi_pizza · Posted: Sun Sep 30, 2007 3:33 am Post subject:

For a while most things in Korea were labeled with a "kimchi-" by foreigners and specially by soldiers. "kimchi-truck", "kimchi-squat", "kimchi-this", "kimchi-that" and so on and it was derogatory. I took that simply for the fact I'm in Korea and what better represents Korea than kimchi and my Italian heritage (the better half anyways) and my favorite food and well...there you go.
Besides, I've put kimchi on left-over pizza before throw'n it in the oven and it was pretty good!

piscin · Joined: 25 Nov 2006 Location: Seoul

'Piscin' is 'kitten' in Irish, agus is aoibheann liom piscini...

Pligganease · Joined: 14 Sep 2004 Location: The deep south...

Mine is a cunning pun on the words "parsley" and "viscosity."