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Starla
Joined: 06 Jun 2008
Location: Seoul
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 Posted: Wed Oct 01, 2008 1:26 pm Post subject: Korean phones and voicemail |
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My co-workers were unable to give me an answer to this so I'm posting it here now.
So I'm fairly new to using Korean phones. I called my friend yesterday but have no clue if he got my message. In the U.S., after you hear a beep, you leave a message and then hang up. With this Korean voicemail thing, I heard a beep and as I was leaving my message, there was an automated recording all in Korean of a woman's voice in the background every few seconds which is quite distracting by the way when you're trying to leave a message. I hung up not knowing if I even left my message.
Can somebody tell me what that recording is about and if my friend got my recording? I don't want to seem like a stalker but have no clue how these Korean phones work! |
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sojukettle
Joined: 23 Aug 2005
Location: Not there, HERE!
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| Posted: Wed Oct 01, 2008 2:28 pm Post subject: |
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koreans don't seem to use the voice mail option on their phones.
you probably were getting a message that the phone was turned off.
send text messages - that is the better option.
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Starla
Joined: 06 Jun 2008
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Thu Oct 02, 2008 4:46 am Post subject: |
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| sojukettle wrote: |
koreans don't seem to use the voice mail option on their phones.
you probably were getting a message that the phone was turned off.
send text messages - that is the better option.
sk |
I noticed Koreans aren't very much into voicemail but he's not Korean and I guess he listens to his because he called me back after I left the message with him today. |
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yingwenlaoshi
Joined: 12 Feb 2007
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| Posted: Thu Oct 02, 2008 4:56 am Post subject: |
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| Just send text messages. |
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PeteJB
Joined: 06 Jul 2007
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| Posted: Thu Oct 02, 2008 5:16 am Post subject: |
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| Yes, go with text. Unless your friend is anti-text, like one of mine is. It takes about ten thousand messages before I get a reply, so always I have to do it through voice or voice message... |
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Starla
Joined: 06 Jun 2008
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| Posted: Thu Oct 02, 2008 4:38 pm Post subject: |
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| PeteJB wrote: |
| Yes, go with text. Unless your friend is anti-text, like one of mine is. It takes about ten thousand messages before I get a reply, so always I have to do it through voice or voice message... |
I'm one of those people.  Hate texting and use it rarely, especially if they're trying to have a conversation through texting. Though I always ask them to call me until they get the message. Some don't. What you can achieve in a two minute phone call would take ten minutes of texting to accomplish not to mention you get to hear the other person's voice. |
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