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fakeplastiktree · Joined: 15 Oct 2007 Location: Northeast Seoul

If no one uses deoderant/antiperspirant here, why don't I ever smell B.O.? I was in Prague at the beginning of year, where deoderant also isn't used much, and a lot of people stink there. Why don't Koreans stink?

genezorm · Joined: 01 Jul 2007 Location: Mokpo

koreans are higher on the evolutionary scale than western people
that's why we don't smell bad, are not hairy like monkeys, and are better at maths and sciences

mnhnhyouh · Joined: 21 Nov 2006 Location: The Middle Kingdom

I have had a couple of bad smelling Koreans sit next to me on the subway, I find the levels to be about the same as in the West.

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ardis · Joined: 20 Apr 2006 Location: Seoul

I actually don't notice a smell as much here, either. At home, if I were on a crowded subway, I would definitely smell a very heady, dirty-hair scent. Really strong body odor smells kind of...spicy (?) to me, and I really can't stand it. There is definitely some BO (my middle school boys coming into class after PE...) but I don't notice it as much as I do at home.

Imbroglio · Posted: Thu Apr 17, 2008 7:14 pm Post subject:

The kimchi makes the Korean to be no smell

Pink Freud · Joined: 27 Jan 2003 Location: Daegu

Lack of apocrine sweat glands.

Really.

thatwhitegirl · Joined: 31 Jan 2007 Location: ROK

Maybe not BO, but there is a distinct smell of garlic-kimchi. Very strong. The high-school boys I teach don't smell like that as much as just sweaty locker-room with cheap cologne. But the teachers...wow.

pkang0202 · Joined: 09 Mar 2007

I have BO, but you can't smell it unless I run a marathon and not shower for a day.

Whereas my friend DJ, this guy had BO you could smell a mile away. Probably 2 miles if you were down wind.

I guess odor causing bacteria just doesn't like the taste of my sweat.

Big_Bird · Posted: Thu Apr 17, 2008 7:58 pm Post subject:

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VanIslander · Posted: Thu Apr 17, 2008 8:10 pm Post subject:

Big_Bird · Posted: Thu Apr 17, 2008 8:15 pm Post subject:

Temporary · Joined: 13 Jan 2008

Well Koreans do stink but its a different stink. They eat so much garlic, onions and kimchi that it comes out through their pores.

Now I use to stink BAD. I use to be very overweight. Now that I have lost lots of my weight I simply don't stink.

I've come to the conclusion that the diet and low body fat has a lot to do with BO.

Fat cells store a lot of crap, they hold onto heavy metals, and other poisons easily, muscle doesn't.

I drink a tonne of water and flush my system out regularly.

Shower twice a day.

I eat lot of vegies and fiber rich foods which cleanse the bowels.

I avoid junk food as much as possible. I found that dairy based products like icecream, milk, yogurt change my body odour. Fried foods do the same. Ironically carbohudrates don't do anything (rice, flour, bread)

Proteins don't change my smell either. Makes me gassy but thats it.

I do have a body odour but its very light, and only if I don't take a shower for two days. I use to have BO that could make me gag now I never bother with pit stick (well usually I still put it on cause I like the smell but if I forget its not a biggy).

My body goes through massive water loss each day so my system is pretty damn clean.

VanIslander · Posted: Thu Apr 17, 2008 8:19 pm Post subject:

JustJohn · Joined: 18 Oct 2007 Location: Your computer screen