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cacheSurfer
Joined: 07 Dec 2003
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 Posted: Tue Jan 13, 2004 4:47 am Post subject: Bad or Unusual Habits? |
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What bad or unusual habits have you acquired in the "Land of the Morning Calm"??
I will be the first to confess...
-I stopped working out
-I stay up way too late and sleep in 'til noon
-I actually eat Kimchi
-I spend entirely too much time in the pool hall
Don't hold anything back....your  ! |
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wylde
Joined: 14 Apr 2003
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| Posted: Tue Jan 13, 2004 5:23 am Post subject: |
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the worst habit i think is the one where i am actually rude to people...
bumping into or pushing past people
walking faster just to deliberately cut them off
pushing to the front of the line to buy my smokes
giving the return spit on the ground to a korean who spits as i walk past
trying as hard as i can to let the door i use to walk through slam into the persons face that follows me through
basically anything that happens to me daily that i cannot change, i have picked up.
that isn't me. i am too considerate, especially when it comes to the elderly.
i am so worried that when i go home to visit i will do the same to people there..
oh the shame.. |
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cacheSurfer
Joined: 07 Dec 2003
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| Posted: Tue Jan 13, 2004 5:32 am Post subject: |
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| wylde wrote: |
the worst habit i think is the one where i am actually rude to people...
bumping into or pushing past people
walking faster just to deliberately cut them off
pushing to the front of the line to buy my smokes
giving the return spit on the ground to a korean who spits as i walk past
trying as hard as i can to let the door i use to walk through slam into the persons face that follows me through
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You're not being rude.....you're becoming a Korean! |
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Tiger Beer
Joined: 07 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Tue Jan 13, 2004 7:18 am Post subject: |
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I cut in line when I see an opportunity.. I lost all patience for people who stand in lines and not being ready when they're next!! I will ALWAYS jump in line particularly in a subway line if the person at the counter isn't ready!! You've been warned!!
I also have become brutally honest (although I've always been fairly direct and to the point).. I find myself even moreso.
I also drink more excessively.. in fact I'm drinking now.
Oh and I'm more confident with women. I just don't seem care how they respond because there will be another girl just like her 2 minutes later. P.S., that is a shock when I go home as it simply doesn't work that way. (At home women aren't approachable, here they are). |
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osangrl
Joined: 04 Nov 2003
Location: osan
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| Posted: Tue Jan 13, 2004 7:49 am Post subject: |
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i pluck hairs  seriously. Mine, my boyfriends, im always tweezing something! Its sick. I even found a black hair on my orange cat the other day and plucked it out. I need help.  |
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peppermint
Joined: 13 May 2003
Location: traversing the minefields of caddishness.
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| Posted: Tue Jan 13, 2004 12:46 pm Post subject: |
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| Tiger Beer wrote: |
| Oh and I'm more confident with women. I just don't seem care how they respond because there will be another girl just like her 2 minutes later. P.S., that is a shock when I go home as it simply doesn't work that way. (At home women aren't approachable, here they are). |
I think most western women would be more approchable depending on your tactics. " A simple "Hi, I'm _______" is innocuous enough that it shouldn't even offend the most man hating feminist. Try that here and you're likely to get giggles and running away, aren't you?
Then again, if you come on like a construction worker ("Hey baby!") I guess that would work better here, because they wouldn't know the difference in some cases.  |
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Tiger Beer
Joined: 07 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Tue Jan 13, 2004 8:17 pm Post subject: |
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| peppermint wrote: |
| I think most western women would be more approchable depending on your tactics. |
I find western women in Korea extremely approachable. I find Korean people as well.
I was thinking more of when I was living in the United States. Particularly in a bar. You can walk into a bar in the U.S., sit at the barstool where there is a single woman, say a comment like 'brrr.. its cold outside' and she's very likely to roll her eyes at you and turn so her back is facing you.
But then again, outside university, most bars in the U.S. seem to be primarily male haunts, whereas in Korea they are about 60/40 or something like that.
I met some young Korean women in the U.S. who said one of their biggest complaints is most bars in the U.S. were filled with older men (sports bars, local bars, dive bars, etc).. pretty near impossible for them to find a regular and comfortable place to drink. |
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Josh_Nyc
Joined: 09 Jan 2004
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| Posted: Tue Jan 13, 2004 10:12 pm Post subject: Re: Bad or Unusual Habits? |
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| cacheSurfer wrote: |
What bad or unusual habits have you acquired in the "Land of the Morning Calm"??
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not using condoms  |
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kangnamdragon
Joined: 17 Jan 2003
Location: Kangnam, Seoul, Korea
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| Posted: Tue Jan 13, 2004 10:26 pm Post subject: |
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| Not saying "Bless you" when someone sneezes. I have forgotten to do that. |
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osangrl
Joined: 04 Nov 2003
Location: osan
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| Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2004 3:09 am Post subject: |
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| ewwwwwwwww maybe you should change your screen name to HIV. Thats playing with fire. Plain stupid. |
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Zed
Joined: 20 Jan 2003
Location: Shakedown Street
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| Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2004 3:19 am Post subject: |
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| kangnamdragon wrote: |
| Not saying "Bless you" when someone sneezes. I have forgotten to do that. |
This is a good thing. I can't stand the obsessive "bless you" crowd. Once is fine, then, enough. |
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ryleeys
Joined: 22 Dec 2003
Location: Columbia, MD
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| Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2004 3:21 am Post subject: |
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| Being non-religious, I always felt awkward being "blessed" anyway... especially for a sneeze... what's about a sneeze that implies that I've done something worthy of being blessed? |
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RedRob
Joined: 07 Jul 2003
Location: Narnia
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| Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2004 4:24 am Post subject: |
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Spiting out hoogies on the street, if my poor old Mum could see me now.....She'd kick my arse.
Lighting up a smoke anywhere I feel like it. |
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peppermint
Joined: 13 May 2003
Location: traversing the minefields of caddishness.
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| Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2004 4:27 am Post subject: |
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| ryleeys wrote: |
| Being non-religious, I always felt awkward being "blessed" anyway... especially for a sneeze... what's about a sneeze that implies that I've done something worthy of being blessed? |
I used to say "Geshundheit" until my first day of teaching when I had to explain what it meant. .  |
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