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[Scorpion]

Yup, the Korea Times is at it again. The latest scandal is about a foreigner winking at a Korean woman. The horror.

http://koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/opinon/2013/04/197_134249.html

[KimchiNinja]

Oh my goodness, this chick is a real head-case...

"Frankly, all expat titles in Korea are defined differently because not all regional representatives are necessarily the MVPs in their homeland headquarters. I am sure the real bosses are not as unsophisticated as these winking expats. The global headquarters must train their executives before appointing them to the high consumption market of imported goods by female consumers. Even if you just want to be seen solely as �yourself�� instead of being tagged as your boss�s representative, you still must learn to respect other lives and cultures before evangelizing them with yours. You gain your own respect from the native residents who are in fact your potential customers and may even become your lifetime friends. As my fortune cookie from the States reads, "Integrity is the essence of all things successful," for some things cannot be completely separated...

Korean women have sacrificed generations of lives building this nation and keeping it intact. They are the ones who gathered gold during the financial crisis for the economy messed up by men..."

[cj1976]

As crazy and OTT as she sounds, I have to agree that guys who wink at women do look like complete wankers. It is almost as bad as the wolf-whistle.

[toby99]

That broad sounds like a real headcase. The fact that she mentions "NYC this, Manhattan that" like some misguided elitist every other sentence doesn't help. What a nutter.

Makes me pine for the Jon Huer days.

[Smithington]

Christ. If the only obnoxious behavior we had to endure in Korea was being wicked at we'd have nothing to complain about. I encounter more uncouth, vulgar, unrefined behavior here within five minutes of leaving my apartment in the morning than I do in a year back home.

On another point, have the Korea Times' sales fallen so far that they can't afford to hire a friggin English proof reader?

Pathetic joke of a newspaper.

(I just looked at the article again. Who would even wink at that chick? She looks like a tranny.)

[Burndog]

Horribly pretentious article. I have never heard a person refer to their own clothing as "haute couture" before. Never.

I guess if you're willing to claim that your 'couture' is indeed 'haute'...then someone winking is possibly worth writing an article about.

[optik404]

Who winks at people? Might as well throw in whistle.

[hiamnotcool]

The guy that winked has some serious game. This lady can't stop thinking about him, it drove her so crazy she had to write an article about it. The next step is to track him down and lecture him personally. Afterward he will joke with her a little bit and explain himself. She will feel like she has taught him some kind of a lesson and they will reflect on it over a cup of coffee the next day.

Hey, maybe he isn't so bad after all.

Next thing she knows she's waking up next to him and they are teasing each other about chauvinism Vs feminism. He impresses her with his knowledge of American female poets and authors and makes a wise crack about how he just learned about them to pick up girls in college. She laughs....no way....he just doesn't want to admit how much he really admires women.

While in bed with the winker she will get a text from one her emasculated male friends that reads her column regularly and always provides a shoulder to cry on. She will lie to this friend about how the cup of coffee turned out and tell him she's over the whole mess about the wink anyway and she just overslept. The friend feels a little suspicious but realizes it's just his outdated masculine tendencies that are leading him down this path. He forgives her for not showing up to their normal Sunday morning brunch. It's not unusual anyway, she tends to oversleep a lot.

She gets the winkers phone number, he gets hers. Maybe he will text her sometimes, they may or may not meet up again for some more "coffee". She is a free woman and she won't be constrained by a commitment anyway. She's alone because she chooses to be.

Maybe that is what will happen. I don't really know, I'm just speculating here. Either way she can't get that guy that winked out of her head.

[jjajangmyun]

[optik404]

Hiiamnotcool = the creepy guy who winked

[KimchiNinja]

[big_fella1]

Sorry I can't be bothered reading the whole diatribe, but I noticed the line about women collecting gold.

Didn't the sale of all that gold lead gold to its lowest price ever?

[Seoulman69]

I've met the author. She is nice enough but you can tell she's a spoilt little rich girl as soon as you meet her. She's not great looking by any stretch of the imagination.
I'm disheartened by the disapproval of winking. I love to wink and to be winked at. I'm from a long line of winkers and I object to our customs being made socially toxic. Long live the wink.
If I see her again I'm going to give her a wink.

[hiamnotcool]

[hiamnotcool]