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[eIn07912]

everywhere. by everyone.

ive been here nearly 3 years, never had a day like today.

i wasnt doing anything special. normal places, doing normal things, but its like everyone felt the need to just stare me down for some reason.

it made me rather paranoid at one point. i kept having to check if i had a booger in my nose. or a speck of something on my face.

i dont usually get burgers and fries, but had to today cause it was the only thing close and i was in a rush. i go to sit down and literally, every kimberly in there stopped and looked at me all at once. as if to say "wow, they really do eat burgers" or "what the hell is he doing here?"

odd.

a very odd day.

[scorpiocandy]

Me too!

And everyone kept staring in the same vicinity. I kept looking down to see what they were looking at but saw nothing out of the ordinary.

Very weird day

[Hobophobic]

you put toilet paper in the flush...they all know it was you...you should go home now before you are on MBC and ruin it for the rest of us.

[justin moffatt]

Sometimes I don't even want to leave home with my Korean wife, and deal with people staring on the subway. Today, some drunk adgeshi tried to pick a fight with me on the subway as we were waiting for the train. I prefer to taking taxis most of the time when with my wife.

[meangradin]

[meangradin]

[wylies99]

They stare all of the time.

The posters on here who say no one stares at them CAN'T POSSIBLY be in Korea.

[OneWayTraffic]

The staring greatly depends on which city you're in, in my experience.

However, it never stops.

[justin moffatt]

Ironically, out of Seoul no-one seems to care. And yes, people stare all the time. The adgeshi comments and confontations (drunk or otherwise) happen less often, but do occur. Keep in mind, we take the subway only 2-3 times a month together.

I have had many Korean and Kyopo friends tell me that most Korean men don't really care if foreigners are with Korean women who they view as unattractive (for Korean standards). However, if the opposite is true, then . . .

This topic was broached before, and the general comments were: Just ignore it. After a while, you get tired of having to "ignore" blatant discriminatory remarks and actions. Strangely, it seems to bother me more than my wife (who is the biggest apologist I know).
Unfortunately, this later led to an arguement on increasing discriminatory issues in Korea (prevalent on this board and in the media) between my wife and I. She made a comment like "most SE Asian people live in this area", to which I responded "some SE Asian may live in this area". I then tried to explain (rather poorly) the importance of not generalizing, based on what the Korean media and other Koreans may report. Maybe I am just being oversensitive . . . (unconsciously at least due to previous adgeshi encounter)

Enough thread hijacking: Maybe another media broadcast perpetuating foreigners negatively again was aired today, hence the staring . . . who knows.

[freshking]

stare back.

[jkelly80]

Definitely stare back. Wink at them. Take a picture with your cell phone. 안녕하십니까 them. Or give them a healthy 좆까 if they won't leave you alone, and then get read for a purely symbolic pretense of a fight.

I didn't put up this shit back home, I certainly won't suffer it here.

[OnTheOtherSide]

[OnTheOtherSide]

[VanIslander]

just ignore their kimpotent behaviour

[nomad-ish]

you know what's worse than just normal staring? when you move trying to get away from that person and they follow you to stare! (i've had this happen to me a few times in the past month, just by old men however). i felt like smacking one he was so much in my face