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[West Coast Tatterdemalion]

Okay, I'm just throwing this out there because it is something that I've experienced a few times during my years here in the ROK. We all know about Koreans and the staring thing. Irritating? Yes. But aside from a few bumpkins with an inferiority complex, it is mostly pretty tame. However, I've noticed another group that also has a tendency to stare: the(I'm assuming) 3-D workers from the SE Asian countries. Now, I must admit, I don't see them very often, except for when it is holiday time. But I have noticed that whenver I've been on the subway or at Home Plus, the whole group just looks and looks at you. I'm not sure that I would call it aggressive. I wouldn't call it friendly or curious either. I guess it is kind of a middle ground. They are a pretty cohesive bunch and hang out in their little gangs and whenever I cross their path, they stare, stare and stare some more. One incident happened a couple of years ago when I was on the subway with my girlfriend and the whole gaggle just stared and stared. We ignored them, but it put me in a pretty pissy mood.

Anyhow, I'm wondering if anyone else has experienced this and felt similarly. Also, I would think the countries they come from have a little less xenophobic element, so how to explain it? I don't know. Like I said, just throwing it out there.

[warren pease]

Bump for most obvious troll attempt in the history of the internet.

[normalperson]

Smile. Wave. Start dancing to "We Speak No Americano" or Pull an extremely ridiculous face.
Works all the time. Good luck!

[West Coast Tatterdemalion]

Uh, okay, smart ass answers aside. Seriously, I'm not trolling. It's just that there are threads on here about Koreans staring at the dreaded Waygookin all the time and I wanted to point out that they aren't the only ones that do it. I guess stating an opinion or making a point is your definition of "trolling." Poor you.

[warren pease]

Bump for most obvious troll response in the history of the internet.

[yoja]

They're probably just wondering what it feels like to look like Brad Pitt and secretly curious if you have an enormous (sense of) manhood.

Or maybe they feel like a group of starving orphans surrounding an unconscious fat kid in 1980s Ethiopia.

Maybe they want to know what it's like to be able to afford a new big-screen HDTV every month for working (and by working, I mean speaking your native language) half the hours for ten times the salary of any job that they'll ever get.

Could be all of the above.

[lifeinkorea]

[yoja]

You don't know what a 3D worker is? What, do you live in China or something?

[Who's Your Daddy?]

[yoja]

Of course I can work in Korea for 3 years and buy a house in cash in their home country! ...But why would I want to live in a house made of cash???


(Actually, I *was* able to pay for a house in my hometown with the money I made working in Korea over the past 3 years. But my hometown is seriously in the middle of nowhere and housing costs are ridiculously cheap because the town is slowly dying.)

[conrad2]

I can buy a house in the USA with just a few months of my pay here in Korea. There are many houses for sale in the midwest for under 10,000 $US.

[interestedinhanguk]

[jrwhite82]

[Oreovictim]

[toonchoon]

i never have Koreans or any other Asians stare at me or my Korean gf here. Only caucasian-looking foreigners stare at us. They usually take a look at me, then her, then me again, then look ahead. I take it they're intrigued by our good looks.