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[Shimokitazawa]

I'm interested in what particularly makes you lose your temper here living in Korea or Asia (Edit: or in general just dealing with people as a working adult).

For example, I was walking down the sidewalk and a guy rode his motorcycle right into me. It was all I could do to punch the guy in the head! Then, My girlfriend had a hole burned in her pants from an ajoshi who was walking down the street and smoking in front of her. Then, there're the guys that blow smoke in my face when I'm standing at a crosswalk!

I'm guessing my question might be played on these forums but I haven't searched for a similar thread.

Somedays I think I'm frustrated and spiraling out of control - ahaa!!

[Kimchieluver]

A young mother walking her young child in the middle of the street while you are driving behind her.

On the flip side, seeing an academy car go 50 km/hr through an apartment complex bustling with little kids.

They both make me angry.

[nomad-ish]

i've got a good one... a few mths ago i was sitting on the train, really tired. a man and his daughter get on, and the kid gives me a look like she just found some interesting new candy. anyways, i'm tired, long day, so i close my eyes and just rest. about 5 min go by and then i hear a loud clapping noise right near my head. obviously i'm wide awake now, and i see the same guy with his daughter about to get off the train grinning at me like idiots.

now that makes me mad: people expecting me to entertain them at the drop of a hat, and if i don't, they'll find a way to get some entertainment out of me somehow

[Chris Kwon]

People answering their phone in the middle of a movie and conversating for at least 5 mins. Never had this problem in the states, ever.

I want to Spartan kick them down the stairs.

[cunning_stunt]

Nothing makes me loose my temper . The best form of defence is offense . I get society before society gets me .

[spliff]

I never loose my temper, I don't have a chip on my shoulder about Korea and besides, loosing ones temper is a loss of face.

[cunning_stunt]

[Fresh Prince]

Overall I've had a really good experience in Korea compared with the West. There was one time that I got pretty heated though:

I was in a small town on a sidewalk that was deserted except for one man; walking in the opposite direction. The sidewalk in this area was exceptionally large as far as sidewalks in that area go. Although there was plenty of room to go around me, a the man decided to ram his shoulder into me and push me out of the way.

Of course, this is really nothing to what I experienced in San Francisco:

I was staying in a cheap hotel with a room on the third floor. I awoke one night to find a guy trying to jimmy my window open. He was propped up on the outside wall of the hotel hanging three storeys above the ground with his hands on my window sill and his legs hanging out of another third storey window. He must have thought the room was vacant because I scared the heck out of him when I opened the window and yelled at him. He had a friend that pulled him back through the other window and he ran off. When I talked to the manager about it, I was informed that another guest had been robbed of everything they had the night before.

[spliff]

You weren't thinking, by alerting him you gave him the chance to get away come back and rob another unsuspecting lodger. What I would have done was whacked/pushed him in the forehead hard enough to cause him to fall, closed the window, gone back to bed and say say F@uck it right before falling happily asleep.

[ABC KID]

[SuperFly]

Thing is though, these people don't realize that what they're doing is rude. There are other things though...that make it impossible for them to NOT know they're being rude, things they do to foreigners that they wouldn't dream of doing to another Korean. BUT NOT ALL Koreans do these things...which makes it easy to identify what is rude and what isn't.


Things like:

Not making any effort to move their ass over when you