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[Real Reality]

Korea Still Rough Place for the Left-handed
34-year-old housewife Nam Seon-heui still remembers the hurt she received when she was young because she was left-handed. In order to break her of her habit, her parents wrapped her left hand in bandages for as long as a year. Her left-handed husband, 34-year-old Chung Sun-gwon, also had crosses to bear. "It's not like I wanted to use my left hand, but if I persisted, I got the rod.
Left Hander's Association of Korea (www.lefthand.or.kr)
"Now is the time to actively protect our rights."
Digital Chosunilbo (October 22, 2004)
http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200410/200410220027.html

[kermo]

[Derrek]

I am left-handed.

The coats with opposite-sided zippers drive me nuts.

And what's with the zipper flipper falling off of all of them?

[Drakoi]

[FUBAR]

[inkoreaforgood]

Yeah, stuff like that happened in my parent's generation. My mom was left handed, but the teachers made her use the right. I'm luckier than most lefties, since I'm mostly ambidextrious(sp?), meaning that in most everyday things I can use either hand.

I zip up my coat left-handed, used to have problems with the zipper flipper thingy too, but haven't in several years. Maybe you jerk it too hard to the left continuously???

[Wisco Kid]

I'm right-handed, and the coat zippers here annoy me. Isn't this one area where lefties get the benefit?

[turtlepi1]

Hehe...left-handedness

A blessing and a curse.

Being a lefty I always favour the lefties in my class. I actually have a couple here in Korea. I think it drives the other kids nuts...I make it a private club they aren't special enough to be apart of.

And I also make Korean adults tell me how intellegent I am because I am left-handed when they make the mistake of noting I use my left hand.

I think it really bends their brain when I use chop-sticks at a superior level, then they realize it is with my left hand and they try to move them to my right hand. At which point I move theirs to their left hand and watch them struggle with chopsticks.

My own personal joke. I figure if "HELLO!!!!" can be the funniest joke in Korea then I can have fun with left-handed chopsticks.

[Derrek]