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[NoExplode]

So I'm standing there on the #1 Subway line going down to Suwon, and on that line, there are a fair number of 3D workers. Anyway, a couple I would guess are from Bangladesh get on, stand right next to me while the subway car was pretty packed. A few stops later the crowd thins out, and these three Korean girls, I would guess anywhere from 20-24 years old, get on.

The Bangladeshi couple had moved away towards the other door (though still standing).

The Korean girls take up the "corner" by the door opposite the foreign couple. As I'm sorta staring off into space, I hear the Korean girl mutter something about "waygooks" but too soft to tell what she said, she was whispering to her friends. Then I see the on with her back to the couple start "sniffing" the air.

I thought she smelled a fart, until she sort of leaned sideways, looked at the foreign couple, did the "sniffing" thing really obviously, turn back to her friends, giggle, and now all three were pantomiming theis "sniffing" the smelly foreigner routine.

By now the couple sees them, and they do nothing but huddle together, looking down at the floor. It's pretty much the attraction of half the subway car by now too.

I'm watching this, getting kinda pissed, when one of the girls rifles through her purse, pulling out a bottle of perfume. The girls crowd together, and when they see the foreigners still looking at the ground, one squirts the perfume twice at the foreigners.

The boyfriend foreigner looks up, sees this, and now steps in between his girlfriend and the Korean girls. He pauses for a moment, I could tell he was thinking of popping the girls--but then probably thinking of deportation, goes back to looking at the floor.

I couldn't really do anything as I was getting off at the next stop except say loudly in Korean, "Korean peasants."

This was one of the most degrading things I've ever witnessed adult human beings engaging in. As a 3rd grader, sure, but adults?

[Xuanzang]

Twentysomethings aren`t always adults in Korea. This just reinforces that adage. Shameful...

[VanIslander]

That is indeed very degrading and if I ever see something like that done to anybody anywhere I will yell at the top of my voice in utter anger, total rage:

What the hell are you doing?!!

[DCJames]

[jkelly80]

Take the actual age, subtract seven. It's sadly cultural.

[skconqueror]

[NoExplode]

[crusher_of_heads]

[Xuanzang]

I can the headlines now "Drunken diseased ESL teacher/foreigner spits on innocent Korean victims" or some inflated garbage like that.

[Scotticus]

[ajgeddes]

[Xuanzang]

Calling them ajummas would probably have more of an effect than peasants.

[bogey666]

[Xuanzang]

At 40 they have either been straightened out by being married, childed (I just made up that word) or stressed to the point where adulthood kicks in. 30 is probably the tipping point for Koreans where they either fall into themselves or the bottom falls out.

[bogey666]