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kangnamdragon
Joined: 17 Jan 2003
Location: Kangnam, Seoul, Korea
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 Posted: Thu Apr 15, 2004 4:55 pm Post subject: Try a smile. |
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| People complain about how gloomy everyone looks in Korea walking around the streets. I propose everyone smile for a whole day and see what happens. What kind of reactions do you get? Please tell us here if anything different happens. |
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Toby
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
Location: Wedded Bliss
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| Posted: Thu Apr 15, 2004 5:00 pm Post subject: |
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| I always smile when talking to Koreans. It gets you a lot more help if you need it and a really warm response. And it's FREE. |
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SuperFly
Joined: 09 Jul 2003
Location: In the doghouse
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| Posted: Thu Apr 15, 2004 5:10 pm Post subject: |
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| As a dog, I must smile at people so they don't eat me when I'm in Korea with my master/owner. He takes care of me pretty good though, two pig ears everyday and at least three milkbones in addition to my IAMS. |
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Toby
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
Location: Wedded Bliss
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| Posted: Thu Apr 15, 2004 5:12 pm Post subject: |
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| SuperFly wrote: |
| As a dog, I must smile at people so they don't eat me when I'm in Korea with my master/owner. He takes care of me pretty good though, two pig ears everyday and at least three milkbones in addition to my IAMS. |
He could buy you some glasses that fit!!! |
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SuperFly
Joined: 09 Jul 2003
Location: In the doghouse
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| Posted: Thu Apr 15, 2004 5:12 pm Post subject: |
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um, those are goggles and they be called doggles. They pretty fly around these parts...  |
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Toby
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
Location: Wedded Bliss
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| Posted: Thu Apr 15, 2004 5:15 pm Post subject: |
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| SuperFly wrote: |
| um, those are goggles and they be called doggles. They pretty fly around these parts... |
I don't think I am going to ask which parts they are! |
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crazylemongirl
Joined: 23 Mar 2003
Location: almost there...
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| Posted: Thu Apr 15, 2004 6:05 pm Post subject: |
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| I smile a lot. But all it does is seems to be an invtation to every freak and horny guy to come on to me. Although perhaps the plunging neck lines have something to do with it? |
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weatherman
Joined: 14 Jan 2003
Location: Korea
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| Posted: Thu Apr 15, 2004 6:26 pm Post subject: |
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For a large group there isn't a whole lot of smiling going on. One guy on the phone seems happy, and the ajumah in the back is clearing happy getting somebody's attention, but the rest look pretty down.
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Toby
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
Location: Wedded Bliss
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| Posted: Thu Apr 15, 2004 6:59 pm Post subject: |
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| weatherman wrote: |
For a large group there isn't a whole lot of smiling going on. One guy on the phone seems happy, and the ajumah in the back is clearing happy getting somebody's attention, but the rest look pretty down.
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It's an AA meeting. That's why! |
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chronicpride
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Thu Apr 15, 2004 11:49 pm Post subject: |
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| I see only one person in the photo who is on a cellphone. Are you sure that's Korea? |
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[email protected]
Joined: 06 Apr 2004
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| Posted: Thu Apr 15, 2004 11:58 pm Post subject: i |
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I tired that once...only once
As soon as I hit the street an adjumma virtually bodyslammed the smile right off my face  |
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phaedrus
Joined: 13 Nov 2003
Location: I'm comin' to get ya.
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| Posted: Fri Apr 16, 2004 3:31 am Post subject: |
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Smiling is the best equalizer to the language barrier that there is.
You might not be able to communicate easily with language, but a smile says it all.
I hate the days when I can't get a genuine smile going, because the children know the difference.
Smiling is contagious. If I smile, the kids smile, and if they smile, I smile. WONDERFUL!!!!!
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Kristsoy
Joined: 23 Mar 2004
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| Posted: Fri Apr 16, 2004 5:30 am Post subject: well |
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| if u dont have anything to smile about them why waste the energy |
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peppermint
Joined: 13 May 2003
Location: traversing the minefields of caddishness.
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| Posted: Fri Apr 16, 2004 5:52 am Post subject: Re: well |
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| Kristsoy wrote: |
| if u dont have anything to smile about them why waste the energy |
There's always something to smile about, even if it's more of a Grinch- esque grin as you plot the downfall of your current school. .  |
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VanIslander
Joined: 18 Aug 2003
Location: Geoje, Hadong, Tongyeong,... now in a small coastal island town outside Gyeongsangnamdo!
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| Posted: Fri Apr 16, 2004 6:23 am Post subject: |
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I used to show my pearly whites before I realized I was actually giving a gimchi smile.
(I now understand the Korean reluctance to smile at strangers.) |
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