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[the saint]

IT was a colleague who came out with this over lunch the other day. I told him he hadn't been to many places then prompting 20 minutes of solid debate on why/why not Korea is boring.

I've only been here a short while. Was my colleague right?

[buddy bradley]

[tomato]

When I hear this line, I feel like saying, "I don't blame you. If I didn't put forth any effort to learn to speak, understand, read, or write any Korean, I would be bored here too."

I also feel like saying, "I don't blame you. If I didn't put forth any effort to teach in an inspiring and creative way, I would be bored too."

[jaebea]

Boring?

Tough, yes. Difficult, yes. Tiring, definitely. Uncomfortable, perhaps.

But out of all that, I'm not sure if boring is an apt description of Korea.. :)

jae.

[Eazy_E]

Learning Korean makes it easier to survive... but also more stressful. Especially if you put heaps of pressure on yourself. I think I'm in the same boat as you, Tomato. Not easy to drill a language like Korean into a brain wired for English.

But is Korea boring? It is certainly monocultural, although perhaps less so with every year. It's hard to find foreign restaurants and other aspects of non-Korean cultures.

Koreans also tend to whitewash over the trappings of their traditional culture, whether it's baduk (the black and white checkers game), or the traditional music and dance. Younger people find stuff like this utterly boring, but that's what a foreigner would want to see in an Asian country.

[lush72]

[tokki]

I guess you've never been to Canada.Now THATS a boring country. I know,I lived there.

[wylde]

if worst comes to worst... play video game for a while.. they cost about 17c a hit aud.. beats the shit out of 4 bucks a shot.

there is heaps to do here

[schwa]

Bored people are boring, anywhere you go. Buy into their lack of curiosity at your own risk.

[inexhile]

[shawner88]