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[mindmetoo]

Have you noticed that your Korean friends who speak English sometimes assume the Koreans around them don't speak English?

Case 1: My Korean-American friend. We were at the Hyundai department store in Sinchon. She was buying make up for her sister back in Texas. While the woman serving her was wrapping up her package, my Korean-American friend just started tearing into her appearance to me in English. "I don't like her smile. It's a crooked smile. She looks very dishonest." "Ummm Rucia how do you know she's not a university student studying English Literature?"

Case 2: My domestic Korean friend "Christy" and I were at some coffee shop in Sinchon. The place was packed and we sat at a table for four with a single Korean woman doing her home work. She starts going on in English about how pretty the woman across the table is. Okay not an entirely bad thing to say but still. The woman is a university student, likely going to Ewha or Yonsei. Not like you need a great command of English to go there��

Case 3: My Korean-Kiwi friend and I were on a subway going through Gangnam. Again, part of town where you'll find Koreans with a decent command of English. My friend is a stripper back in Auckland so her English is some what peppered with exotic terminology. She starts tearing down this old woman sitting across from us chewing her gum like a cow (she was pretty loud and of course was adding in the requisite snapping sounds). And then she starts telling me how I should not trust the Korean she teaches me. "For all you know I could be teaching you not how to say 'could you update my bankbook, but 'excuse me could I shave your p_ussy?'" Stuff like that. I was dying.

[FUBAR]

[Corporal]

[haywill22]

Oh man,

I made that mistake the first month I was here. Sitting in a crowded pojanmacha with my american friend getting drunk, a korean girl came in and sat down at the table. This girl was hot but her teeth were gnawrled and had deep brown lateral lines running across them. We ignorantly began discussing the travesty of such an endowment on a fellow human, not too quietly either.

A couple days later in same tent with my korean friend, I noted the girl was there again, another korean old man asks me if Romeo and Juliet was a tragedy? Not really knowing the answer I said I thought it was, and then 3 koreans and myself began discussing it.

The girl with bad teeth chimed in with great english and explained to me that it wasn't a tragedy, that she studys Western Literature and "the real tragedy is that a Korean girl with 'nawaled' teeth had to tell you about western literature"

I smiled and bought her a bottle of soju and we've since become friends frequenting the same tent.

By the way ... to you literature majors (or those who knew in middle school ) is R&J a tragedy? No? because only the two main characters die and not the entire cast? I don't know. Sorry to go off topic.

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[paperbag princess]

a true shakespearean tragedy is defined by the death of the main protagonist, which is caused by his/her fatal flaw. for example, in macbeth, it is his greed which lead to his demise. in king lear it is his hubris that kills him.

romeo and juliet is definately a tragedyas the two main protagonists die. one could say that it is their love which is their "fatal flaw", though i'd be more inclined to argue for their naivete which kills.

[Dispatched]

Hubris? Sounds like a type of Korean car... but I guess getting run over by ones car is indeed a tragedy...

[royjones]

[mog]

That would be Greek tragedy, by the way.

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[mindmetoo]

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[Gord]

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