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flakfizer

Well, go check out this Chosun Ilbo story and look at the cartoon. It's kinda funny because in the article, a lot of the foreigners being discussed are other Asians. But I'm guessing the foreigners in the cartoon are not Asian. Maybe it's just koincidence

http://english.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2009/09/11/2009091100859.html

Louis VI · Joined: 05 Jul 2010 Location: In my Kingdom

Let's keep our noses out of this.

Globutron · Joined: 13 Feb 2010 Location: England/Anyang

Who nose where Korean will be taught next.

tomato · Posted: Sat Aug 28, 2010 9:53 am Post subject:

In a Korean sign language dictionary, I saw a picture of a person outlining a long pointed nose with his finger for the word 백인, or "white person."

If you want another example of Korean tasteful humor,
take a look at what I found in a children's song book:

http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v500/pentatonika/foreign3.jpg

Here's my translation:

We Don't Do That

When foreigners dance, they shake their heads and shake their bodies.
They shake everything. We don't do that.
Arirang, arirang, arariyo.

Globutron · Joined: 13 Feb 2010 Location: England/Anyang

There's a statement in a teaching book in Korea that you have to copy and correct the mistakes in I think, and it says something like

'Americans bring all the crime and drugs into the country'
or 'America is the source of crime and drug abuse'.

madoka · Joined: 27 Mar 2008

I'm half surprised they didn't have morbidly obese people with squiggly smell lines coming off of them. Laughing

Todstar · Joined: 05 Mar 2010 Location: Hakdong/London

Beavis and Butthead are learning Korean? Is there are Korean translation for fart-knocker?

metalhead · Joined: 18 May 2010 Location: Toilet

People that smile? People that socialize? Crikey, there's a lot of Koreans in China, you wouldn't know it though, they stick to themselves and only hang out in Korean restaurants.

schwa · Joined: 18 Jan 2003 Location: Yap

When I step off the plane in Vancouver I am in fact struck by the size & variety of honkers. I'm partial to Asian noses -- nicely understated.

I'm a bignose myself. Not sure where they get the pointy aspect from though.

Princess Soraya · Joined: 30 Oct 2008

A cartoon depicting a person in a room with a fan and the windows shut:That would epitomize the stupid foreigner. Wink

IMF crisis · Joined: 27 Mar 2008

The guy in the back was caught cheating on the test. He had half the answers written on the top of his nose.

This reminds me of those one-liners from "Roxanne" that Steve Martin delivered. "You're fired Johnson. Your nose was on time but you were 15 minutes late!"

hellofaniceguy · Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Location: On your computer screen!

Kaypea · Joined: 09 Oct 2008

Occasionally, a student will kind of let me catch him or her making the shape of a big beak over his or her nose, which I assume is a loving homage to their exotic foreign teacher. I just ignore it, but it can't help but bug me a little. Isn't it like white kids pulling their eyes out at the corners when they see an Asian person? Yeah, I don't want to make a big deal about it, because it almost never happens, and if I paid attention to it, it would happen more. Who needs that?

NYC_Gal · Joined: 08 Dec 2009

A lot of Koreans want "taller" noses. It's a common plastic surgery option here. Don't sweat it.

nukeday · Joined: 13 May 2010

"Since 1997, the U.S. Scholastic Aptitude Test has been available written in Korean and 4,176 students opted to take the test this year. There are 2,100 schools around the world that teach Hangeul, or written Korean, half of them in the United States."

does this mean you can take the SAT with Korean as a subject test? Or that Korean immigrants are choosing to take the SATs in korean? I don't get it. These sound like services for immigrants, not growing interest in Korean in the United States