Korean Job Discussion Forums

[Mosley]

In the place I'm working(and set to leave in a couple of days) there's a PC bang that I've gone to about a dozen times, and today there was a sign in Chinese that I'm sure I read right. It said(to the best of my knowledge) that Chinese people were forbidden from entering. There are many 3D workers here but I assumed most were Indonesian or Filippino.

I'm not a newbie but I've never come across this before. Anyone else come across this? Also, if anyone can write Chinese(I can read some but write little) can they write the message, if they have the computer capacity to do so, as I've related? I can read the Chinese for "Chinese people", "enter/exit" and "forbidden".

Nope, ain't makin' this up.

[mistermasan]

can you post a pic?

[spliff]

So, are you Chinese? If not, what are you fussing about?

[Yangachi]

I used to use a PC room used by Chinese, and they seemed to be in the habit of downloading dodgy programs full of viruses which meant that many of the computers were often unusable. I suspect this is probably the case with this PC room.

[Mosley]

Gee, I've finally been spliffed!!!

No, ass, I'm not Chinese(duh!) but if one foreign nationality is banned from a PC bang...yeah, I'd like to know why!

You're an ass clown....

[fortysixyou]

[Mosley]

Yangachi: yep! I just asked a flunky working here and my reading was right. And when I asked him why, he said "virus".

[I-am-me]

I think this was posted last year. It had somethng to do with the language packs. After the customer leaves the pc bang has to change the language pack back to korea. I think that is why?

[cbclark4]

Why you upset. Getting Spliffffed is an honor.

[Mosley]

Oh, I'll wear the spliff medal alongside my UN peacekeeping ones....

[cbclark4]

When I said honor I meant it more on the order of the welcome banner
over the school gate on your first day kind of honor.

[Kimchi Cha Cha]

My Chinese is pretty ordinary, know a few characters and my Grammar is pretty non-existent but did it say something like this:

中國人不入

or 中國人不要进入

[Carlyles Ghost]

[mistermasan]

yep, that chinese is unmistakably clear: "chinese people no entry". you got it.

i was thinking the use of the word 'han" might be in there. one "han"is forchinese, another for koreans. or the "hua" of people/nations but...nope...you get full marks.

[Mosley]

kimchi: thanks for your reply. Sorry, I don't even have a camera right now so no pic. But it said "China"(now that I think about it)but not w/"people" or "language" after it. Then the characters for "enter/exit"(the Japanese would read them as iriguchi/deguchi). Then the two characters for "forbidden". In Japan & China, those characters are often seen on signs like for "Parking not allowed here."

I might suppose the sign was made by a non-native speaker of Chinese.

Edit: I just checked w/the Chinese lang. teacher here at school. The forbidden part is read something like "jin zhi"(with tones, of course). She thinks it means "(something) from China should not be imported /exported."