Korean Job Discussion Forums

[bobbyhanlon]

yesterday i was walking around haeundae, busan (the dongbaek island part) when a fairly old korean guy named mr. cho came up to me and engaged me in one of those 'where do you come from?' etc. conversations. it suddenly dawned on me that the last time i was here - over a year ago - i'd had the exact same conversation with the very same person. he asked me how long i'd been here, told me i was 'almost korean', said i should move to busan, and told me about his job as 'the president of a company, in import-export'. each time he was just standing around waiting for a waegukin like me to appear, rather than actually doing something.
just for the sake of curiosity, have many of you folks met this character? i often wonder about the lives of people like this and the 'say-say-say' guy at suwon station...

[jfromtheway]

That reminds me of this little old Korean man who walks around my school for exercise and keeps running me down as I'm leaving on my odd days. He has a Phd in Economics and showed me his USC professor ID, as he used to teach there. The guy is like 70 but all he talks about is banging chicks. He'll literally talk about how much skirt he used to slay for 20 minutes straight then tells me that we should go out mongering together. I'm tempted to take him up on it just to get an experience out of it but I've taken the back door out a couple times just to avoid the guy. He mannerisms and way of talking remind me of some Italian stereotype but he's a little old Asian guy. "I've had Israili, Japanese, American, you name it. Ya know, guys like us... never happy with just one woman, eh? Know what I'm sayin'?" then bursts into laughter and hits me on the arm. He's a character.

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[nathanrutledge]

[happiness]