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rocketdolphin
Joined: 28 Oct 2007
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 Posted: Thu Jul 24, 2008 4:57 pm Post subject: Korean culture and Spanish |
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Maybe someone will know the answer to this.
I�ve gone to many Korean fan sites/forums/blogs that are completely in Spanish. Most of the posters are from place like Chile and Argentina. Is Korean culture just popular in South America, or did a lot of Koreans immigrate to South American countries after the Gwangju Uprising? Or is it something else? |
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Guri Guy
Joined: 07 Sep 2003
Location: Bamboo Island
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| Posted: Thu Jul 24, 2008 8:28 pm Post subject: |
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| Well, I believe South Korea has a free trade agreement with Chile and Guatemala. That might have something to do with it or maybe the idea of a Korean diaspora seems possible. Maybe the Korean wave has rippled over there. I think I saw a Spanish Dokdo propaganda site a few days ago... |
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CeleryMan
Joined: 12 Apr 2007
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2008 10:26 am Post subject: |
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| Koreans will generally infiltrate areas where there are disproportionate number of like-folks, set up shop and saturate the market with commodity services and products via wholesale. Barrio Once' in Buenos Aires is a perfect example. The Korean grind is ferocious ... |
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rocketdolphin
Joined: 28 Oct 2007
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| Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2008 3:20 pm Post subject: |
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I guess it will remain a mystery for now.
Last edited by rocketdolphin on Fri Jul 25, 2008 7:48 pm; edited 1 time in total |
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CeleryMan
Joined: 12 Apr 2007
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2008 3:39 pm Post subject: |
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We need to saturate the Chilean and Guatemalan market with cheap defective Kias and Hyundais and lock in years of recurring service revenue before China's Cherry or India's Nano. Once we lock in the market, we'll extort the respective governments... payable to 2MB in the form of extremely cheap labor; errr, I meant to say legal FDI tax subsidies.
Free Trade S. America fighting!! |
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PeteJB
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| Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2008 5:17 pm Post subject: |
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| Spanish people I've met here seem to like Korean culture a lot. The food, the music, the drama series are all popular points I've heard. |
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sjrm
Joined: 27 Jul 2005
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| A bit off topic, but somewhat on, I guess. The funniest experience I ever had in Korea was while taking a cab in Chuncheon, the cabbie asked me in Spanish if I spoke it. I told him a little bit, and after talking to him for a bit, found out he spent 6 years in Paraguay. Can't remember what for, but there might be some sort of Korean/S. American thing going on. |
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A2Steve
Joined: 10 Nov 2007
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| Posted: Mon Jul 28, 2008 3:16 am Post subject: |
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It impressed the Hell out of six Korean teachers when I spoke to the chef at a Mexican restaurant in Spanish, or at least the stuff they teach in high school and college in America. That's 4.5 years of work that had 'em begging for more.
Granted, I think I only got about 60-70 percent of it right, but ya just gotta wing the rest. I don't think the chef knew I was speaking pigeon Spanish after a while either. Not bad for a whitebread boy from the midwest. Previously, the closest I ever got to a practical use for it was ordering a combo at Taco Bell. |
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peppermint
Joined: 13 May 2003
Location: traversing the minefields of caddishness.
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| Posted: Mon Jul 28, 2008 3:59 am Post subject: |
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| I was told that there was a pretty big Korean community in Argentina, don't know how or when that came about though |
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merkurix
Joined: 21 Dec 2006
Location: Not far from the deep end.
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Bigfeet
Joined: 29 May 2008
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| Posted: Mon Jul 28, 2008 4:30 am Post subject: |
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| A2Steve wrote: |
It impressed the Hell out of six Korean teachers when I spoke to the chef at a Mexican restaurant in Spanish, or at least the stuff they teach in high school and college in America. That's 4.5 years of work that had 'em begging for more.
Granted, I think I only got about 60-70 percent of it right, but ya just gotta wing the rest. I don't think the chef knew I was speaking pigeon Spanish after a while either. Not bad for a whitebread boy from the midwest. Previously, the closest I ever got to a practical use for it was ordering a combo at Taco Bell. |
Move south if you ever head back to the US. Where more and more jobs are requiring Spanish. |
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Tiger Beer
Joined: 07 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Mon Jul 28, 2008 6:05 am Post subject: |
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very interesting. 49,000 koreans in guatamala now! Impressive!
250,000 in Brazil...
35,000 in Argentina.
Only 110,000 in Canada? I thought it would be more.
U.S.A is above Japan now with Koreans...1,500,000 in U.S. compared with around 900,000 in Japan.
Interesting page.
92,000 in the Philippines now! Wow. |
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ardis
Joined: 20 Apr 2006
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Mon Jul 28, 2008 3:48 pm Post subject: |
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| peppermint wrote: |
| I was told that there was a pretty big Korean community in Argentina, don't know how or when that came about though |
I met a guy in college who was Argentinian but ethnically Korean. He moved to Argentina when he was a small child, learned Korean from his parents, spoke Spanish in school, and also studied English in school. He said there is a fairly large community of Koreans living there. |
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