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[drinkyogurtsoju]

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[Vagabundo]

having a (theoretically) higher opinion of Confucianism as a philosophy and more importantly, the foundation for a social/cultural code.

[cyui]

Having sex...oh wait...N/V

[yoja]

Eating food that is spicy AND non-pickled.

Driving a bigger car, and not experiencing (m)any fits of road rage. Paying less for gas but more for basic utilities.

Using more slang, speaking faster, and generally using bigger words in everyday conversation.

Cooking more. Watching more TV. Reading the NY Times in print.

Hanging out with family, instead of just calling them. Boycotting Facebook. Wondering why people like Skype so much.

Shopping more when I'm bored. Enjoying gardening and mowing the lawn in the summer.

Wondering why there are so many annoying, stupid people (as opposed to wondering why there are so many annoying, stupid Koreans).

Doing the same kind of work, and probably enjoying it just as much as I do now.

All in all, I don't think my life would really be THAT different.

[Radius]

Struggling to find work as a middle school teacher with a dime a dozen English and History degree.

[yoja]

Surfing the internet more slowly.

[PRagic]

Flashback to 1993. I had just taken a hakwon job and moved over to Seoul. Two weeks in and I got a call from the largest trading company on the East Coast asking me if I wanted to work for them in Mexico. Said I was under contract already and never looked back. Onward and upward from there. No regrets.

After three years here, I got a call back on a job for the U.S. government. Said no thanks. No regrets.

Korea has been good to my wife and I, and we've been able to do more here in terms of work and education than would have been possible had I taken one of the paths. The future? Who knows?

[West Coast Tatterdemalion]

Robbing banks and making bombs to help me pull off the heists.

[northway]

Political organizing.

[McGenghis]

Probably holed up in some remote forest cabin writing angry letters to newspapers I no longer read.

[mmstyle]

In debt, struggling, single, and not nearly as happy. For all its frustrations, coming to Korea changed my life in so many good ways.

[Zackback]

For me life would have no meaning at all.

[silkhighway]

This is hard to say. Korea was just a passing phase for me, but it certainly changed me in many ways. About the only definite thing I know is that I'd have had a much different career path than I do now, but doing what, who knows.

[nstick13]

Pushin' papers workin' for the man.

[warmachinenkorea]

Teaching SPED in a MS or HS, coaching basketball, digging a huge finacial hole for my wife and I, and working on my first heart attack by the age of 35.

The first two I miss and will do when we go home. The later two, well I've learned a few things and am glad I can avoid them.