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ABC KID
Joined: 14 Sep 2007
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 Posted: Mon Dec 31, 2007 8:00 pm Post subject: Hey Mr Korean Grandfather, Do You Want To Die? |
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I don't know if this phenomenon is just limited to Chungcheongbuk-Do or whether it is nationwide but can anyone explain the following to me...
Why do Korean grandfathers love dressing up in all black and then going for a bike ride on the wrong side of the road after dark? Do they have a death wish or something?  |
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Ilsanman
Joined: 15 Aug 2003
Location: Bucheon, Korea
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| Posted: Mon Dec 31, 2007 8:04 pm Post subject: |
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| I have never seen that specifically, but idiotic shit is nationwide. |
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GoldMember
Joined: 24 Oct 2006
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| Posted: Mon Dec 31, 2007 8:51 pm Post subject: |
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Yep, every time I see someone riding his bike on the wrong side of the road, it's always an old bugger.
Why is this? Its because under Confusionism he's right because he's old, and everyone else is wrong.
Also if you do happen to hit him, it's your fault.
Remember this is Korea. An IT powerhouse, and a world leader in stupidity. |
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Bibbitybop
Joined: 22 Feb 2006
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Mon Dec 31, 2007 9:37 pm Post subject: |
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| I don't see it much, but I do see 2 other people who should not be on busy roads: People pushing the trash/recycle carts and people in electric wheelchairs. They do this when there is a sidewalk there. Deathwish. |
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Captain Corea
Joined: 28 Feb 2005
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Mon Dec 31, 2007 10:18 pm Post subject: |
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| GoldMember wrote: |
| a world leader in stupidity. |
Then I guess you fit right in. |
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OiGirl
Joined: 23 Jan 2003
Location: Hoke-y-gun
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| Posted: Mon Dec 31, 2007 10:42 pm Post subject: |
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| Bibbitybop wrote: |
| I don't see it much, but I do see 2 other people who should not be on busy roads: People pushing the trash/recycle carts and people in electric wheelchairs. They do this when there is a sidewalk there. Deathwish. |
Actually, people in wheelchairs are legally permitted to be in the road. |
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Yesterday
Joined: 15 Aug 2003
Location: Land of the Morning DongChim (Kancho)
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| Posted: Mon Dec 31, 2007 10:51 pm Post subject: |
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because he was taught to ride on that side of the road during the Japanese-colonial years....
Koreans ONLY changed to the right-side of the road after the Japanese left...
Also just for interest-sake - Korea was only spelt KOREA during the Japanese-colonial era...
before 1900's it was spelt Corea...
(apparenlty the Japanese changed it to Korea - so that alphabetically it would come after Japan)
If you look at the British embassy in Seoul - the cornerstone on which it was built says "Corea" (1890) |
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Ya-ta Boy
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: Established in 1994
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| Posted: Mon Dec 31, 2007 11:08 pm Post subject: |
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(apparenlty the Japanese changed it to Korea - so that alphabetically it would come after Japan)
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I see you've been listening to the Korean nationalists again. That is not overly wise.
Since when do the Japanese call Korea Korea? How long have the Japanese been alphabetizing things with the Roman alphabet rather than their own?
This whole thing only came up in the run-up to the World Cup in '02 when foreigners started calling it the Japan-Korea World Cup and it hurt the nationalists' feelings because Japan was first in a foreign alphabet.  |
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Yesterday
Joined: 15 Aug 2003
Location: Land of the Morning DongChim (Kancho)
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| Posted: Mon Dec 31, 2007 11:20 pm Post subject: |
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those nationalists are bad - confusing me like that - they deserve to be spanked...
but how do you explain the cornerstone at the British embassy built in 1890...? |
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the eye
Joined: 29 Jan 2004
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| Posted: Mon Dec 31, 2007 11:40 pm Post subject: |
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| Yesterday wrote: |
Also just for interest-sake - Korea was only spelt KOREA during the Japanese-colonial era...
before 1900's it was spelt Corea...
(apparenlty the Japanese changed it to Korea - so that alphabetically it would come after Japan)
If you look at the British embassy in Seoul - the cornerstone on which it was built says "Corea" (1890) |
Japan was Nippon at this time. No? Hence it would still come after K. |
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Bibbitybop
Joined: 22 Feb 2006
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Mon Dec 31, 2007 11:43 pm Post subject: |
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| OiGirl wrote: |
| Bibbitybop wrote: |
| I don't see it much, but I do see 2 other people who should not be on busy roads: People pushing the trash/recycle carts and people in electric wheelchairs. They do this when there is a sidewalk there. Deathwish. |
Actually, people in wheelchairs are legally permitted to be in the road. |
Legality isn't the point. They block one lane of traffic and are dangerous, especially when they are too small to be seen by cars and motorcycles who may move into the lane they are using and then have to slam on their brakes to not his a man going 5 kph in a wheelchair.
They need to be on the sidewalk where they belong. |
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Ilsanman
Joined: 15 Aug 2003
Location: Bucheon, Korea
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| Posted: Mon Dec 31, 2007 11:49 pm Post subject: |
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When dividing up the tasks for the World Cup, part of the agreement was that Korea would be listed first. In exchange, Japan got some other bonus.
Anyways, thoase rickshas are a hazard, but since I don't drive, I dont give a shit.
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(apparenlty the Japanese changed it to Korea - so that alphabetically it would come after Japan)
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I see you've been listening to the Korean nationalists again. That is not overly wise.
Since when do the Japanese call Korea Korea? How long have the Japanese been alphabetizing things with the Roman alphabet rather than their own?
This whole thing only came up in the run-up to the World Cup in '02 when foreigners started calling it the Japan-Korea World Cup and it hurt the nationalists' feelings because Japan was first in a foreign alphabet. |
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ABC KID
Joined: 14 Sep 2007
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| Posted: Tue Jan 01, 2008 1:09 am Post subject: |
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| Yesterday wrote: |
because he was taught to ride on that side of the road during the Japanese-colonial years....
Koreans ONLY changed to the right-side of the road after the Japanese left...
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Fair enough and informative in its own right, but that still doesn't explain why these grandfathers feel the need to dress up totally in black with no luminious strips or any other colors on their clothes and also ride with no bike lights when they go for a ride in the dark. |
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Ilsanman
Joined: 15 Aug 2003
Location: Bucheon, Korea
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| Posted: Tue Jan 01, 2008 1:13 am Post subject: |
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| I don't buy that driving on the left is an excuse. How many years has he had to adjust? More than 20 for sure. |
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bluelake
Joined: 01 Dec 2005
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| Posted: Tue Jan 01, 2008 2:41 am Post subject: |
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| Yesterday wrote: |
because he was taught to ride on that side of the road during the Japanese-colonial years....
Koreans ONLY changed to the right-side of the road after the Japanese left...
Also just for interest-sake - Korea was only spelt KOREA during the Japanese-colonial era...
before 1900's it was spelt Corea...
(apparenlty the Japanese changed it to Korea - so that alphabetically it would come after Japan)
If you look at the British embassy in Seoul - the cornerstone on which it was built says "Corea" (1890) |
Actually, that's an urban legend and has been around for a long time. Although Western countries called this country both "Korea" and "Corea", it was 조선 to the Koreans and "Chosen" to the Japanese. I've seen many examples of the romanized version changing between "K" and "C" long before Japan's colonization; eventually, "K" won out in most Western countries (with exceptions, like France). |
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