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[cazzy3]

Talking w/ some mates the other night and we couldn't get over how cheap some foreign people are over here. I know it's not everyone and some people do have bills/debts to take care of back home. However, what's the worst you've seen while you've been here?

Here's some I've seen:

1. Bringing soju to a club and doing shots in the bathroom.
2. Haggling over 1000 won for dinner because "I didn't eat as much as everyone else."
3. Re-filling water bottles at your school.

[IncognitoHFX]

Haha, yeah. I'm not a cheapskate at all and don't mind lending to friends in need but I know some major cheapskates here and back home.

I heard of a well-known foreigner bar in Anyang having poor business because foreigners just drink at home / don't drink at all. Sure, loitering is okay, but actually paying to keep the place running is unheard of.

[yingwenlaoshi]

I re-fill water bottles at school (it's actually a good idea), but I'm anything but cheap. Quite the opposite, really. I buy drinks for my friends (and even the whole bar - I enjoy ringing the bell), dinner, clothes, etc, but it all seems to be reciprocated. I buy myself really expensive clothes and eat 40,000 Won steaks at home, put 100 bucks down on pool games, etc.

There are, however, cheap people out there. Luckily, I don't know any at the moment.

But hey. Re-filling your water bottles at work is only smart. As well as looking for the best bargain when you can. Why pay 2000 Won for a bottle of cider when they have it down the street for 1300 or 1400? Why pay 1100 for a bottle of water when there's free water at work? I'll admit, however, that you can go too far in trying to find a bargain. Sometimes you have to say "Fk it!"

I was in one of my local supermarkets just the other day to buy a bar of soap. The cheapest one they had was 1800 and thought that to be too pricey. So I shopped around. I haven't done much shopping in this area, so I don't know the best places to go yet (E-Mart's a little out of the way). Found a cucumber bar for 1100.

If that's cheap then I guess I'm guilty.

[lowpo]

[cazzy3]

the water bottle thing at work may be an exception, but for me it seems a little too frugal. don't get me wrong..shopping around for the best price is not being cheap..it's economically sound.

i'm talking about the people who go out of there ways not to fork up 1000 won, or those that will sit and drink a few rounds on their friends and always seem to 'Have to go" when it's there time to buy the round.

[billybrobby]

[Looking East]

[BS.Dos.]

What annoys me most are the cheapskate FTs who don't cough up when it's time to settle the beer tab at the end of the night. Or the ones who sneakily scuttle off home before it arrives without contributing anything. During my first 6-months, I naively believed that there was a kind of closeknit 'camaraderie' amongst the FTs. I soon kicked that attitude in to touch.

[STP]

Teachers here are absolute RATS!!!!
they really do ship the filth over here
white trash with university degrees!!!!!

ESL = Wet Back of Asia

[Frankly Mr Shankly]

I'm so cheap I either steal toilet paper or just do a handstand under the tap after I take a dump.

[Newbie]

I worked with a girl once who was so cheap she walked up to me and said, "I think I owe you 500 won from the dinner we had." I never went out with her again after that.

Filling up water bottles at work is pure ghetto. You're dirty.

[Yangachi]

What about the teachers who upon leaving Korea try to sell every shitty little nick-nack they have acquired during their stay. Can't you just leave some of your stuff for the next person?

[ccikulin]

I fill up water bottles at work all the time. Actually, it's just one water bottle that is always on my desk at work. I don't do because I'm cheap though, and I don't fill them up and take them home. I just think buying bottled water is a huge waste of plastic. Even if you do recycle them, they're still making a ton of new ones all the time. Solution, stop buying them and just refill one from a clean water source.

I really hate it when people never cough up their share of the tab though, that's just rude. My friends and I usually just take turns buying each other rounds. When you are really good friends with people, you don't need to keep count or anything like that. I play pool all the time and it's usually the first person to the counter ends up paying. It's never a thing we talk about or think about. It all works out in the long run.

[ccikulin]

[BS.Dos.]

I refill my water bottles from my kettle. Does this make me a cheapskater?