Korean Job Discussion Forums

[Tiger Beer]

If Koreans supposedly CAN'T grow bears and mustaches.. and supposedly don't care for it.. why do they honor so much those who can and put their mug faces on Korean coins and bills??

Anyhow, I realize those are very famous men on the coins and bills.. which makes me conclude that the most intelligent, most amazing koreans, most respected Koreans are also those who can grow some damn good goatees!!

Just a random nonsensical thought to start the big 3-day holiday drinking binge weekend..

[HardyandTiny]

Haha!
Next thing I know you'll be telling me that Koreans have smaller penises.

I always laugh when I see one of the Korean "soap operas" set in a dynasty period. (All the men have perfectly shaved full goatees)

All the men are barking and all the women are yelping and crying. It's no different from today!

AND all the interior scenes are shot with ELECTRIC lighting and Estee Lauder make-up! Talk about taking crap American TV to its extremes!

[the_beaver]

[dogbert]

[kangnamdragon]

Of course Koreans can grow beards; it just takes longer.

[gang ah jee]

a Korean-American friend of mine used to be in the US military. This guy grows almost no facial hair whatsoever. The problem was that when he got his shaving kit he through it out - then got busted in the kit check.

[kylehawkins2000]

Sometimes I'd love to grow the old facial hair as slowly as the Koreans. I get a mean 4 o'clock shadow and I can never get a real close shave. I had a beard my first time 'round in Korea but got loads of comments on it.....almost exclusively negative.

A Korean guy told me the other day that it is rude for a son to have more facial hair than his father. Has anyone heard of this before?

Re: Korean penises being smaller.....from what I've seen I'd have to think so....I don't subscribe to the belief that all races are the same anatomically. I remember reading about a study that found black men's penises to be almost half an inch longer than white men's penises.....so why not believe that Korean's could be smaller than white men's? After all I would have to assume it is a product of genetics, and many Koreans pride themselves on being such a 'homogenous' race.

[masuro]

Come to Gangwon Province. Big city boys don't like the facial hair (gets tangled up in the ties?) but there are plenty of men here in the cold mountains with big thick beards. A public servant in my town told me that some men grow beards after they quit their jobs and renounce the rat race. I grew one too and people jokingly told me I look like a mountain bandit. I do, sort of . . . .

[Korea Newfie]

My director is a 44 year old man who can grow a few hairs on his chin, and on the side of his head. Other than that, he's smooth as a baby Buddha's ass. Whenever I let mine grow out a little, he always makes a point of telling me how handsome I am without it, because I look more Korean. Of course that lead to more beard time... (Same thing with my hair, which gets curly when it grows out.)

[Tiger Beer]

[sojourner1]

Oh yes, they can grow a goatee that represented high social status long ago. That guy on the 100 won coin was a yangbon ruling elite who wore a finely woven horse hair hat. They wore colorful silk hanbok with a horse hair hat while the commoners wore plain white clothes made out of hemp. If you go to a changing of the guard ceremony at one of Seoul's 5 palaces, then you can see guys who look like Korean ruling elite did many eons ago.

[Milwaukiedave]

Just tell your students the guy on the coin looks like Santa Claus.

[BigBuds]

What's with reviving a 5 year old thread?

[Socks]