Korean Job Discussion Forums

[haengdangdong]

A few months ago a drunk old man came into my apartment and tried to steal some of my jackets that were in the living room. It ended up being a really funny story (its in the April archive of http://spmulligan.blogspot.com), but the funniest part were my friends comments when I called to tell them the story.

When I told my friends at home that I was robbed, two out of the four comments were:

"You got robbed in Korea? Was it by ninjas?!?"

This is just a typical joke from people at home. I'm wondering what other funny, ignorant comments you have heard from your friends.

[Alias]

"Korea..???.....Don't they eat cats there?"

[Gopher]

First time I went to Latin America, to Chile, on a study abroad fellowship, an acquaintence asked why I was so interested in the Mexicans...I didn't bother trying to respond.

I agree with you on this very important point. Everytime I come back home from abroad I have to come to terms with a kind of culture shock, and realize that many of my friends have never been abroad, and this makes communication sometimes a little complicated...

[ed4444]

I brought encouraged my friends to come over.

so they did and became teachers.

but they are still ignorant.

[Ya-ta Boy]

[quiksilver]

This lady wasn't a friend of mine but it's a funny story. I was in the liquor store buying some drinks for my going away bar-b-que and the late fifties lady working at the counter and I had this conversation:

Her: "Oh, hi quiksilver. I heard you were going to Korea soon. You're crazy with all the nonsense going on in the world today. When are you leaving?"

Me: "Actually I'm not too concerned for my safety. I'm leaving on Friday."

Her. "Wow. Can you even speak any Chinese?"

Me: "No."

Her: "Ok. Good luck"

Me: "Yeah, thanks."




I told my friends this story when I got back to my house and I swear one of them didn't get it.

[itaewonguy]

me: yeah I live in korea now man"
m8: KOREA??? !!! "wheres that"?

me: ASIA! you know JAPAN?
M8: yeah..
ME: next to japan
M8: oh.. whats that like?


other mates..
korea ohh yeah!! KIMCHI HUH
korea they all walk around with those funny hats?
Korea.. they got maccas there?
U in KOREA? north of south?

hahahaha really no clue some of them!!

but then again.. I didnt know to much about korea either when I came over 97.. all I knew was.. they had the games in 88..
apart from that nothing.. I didnt even look it up on the net before I came.
I saw an add work in south korea.. call MR LEE.. and I called it..
3 days later I was in pusan!!

[The King of Kwangju]

"You lived in Korea?"
"Yeah"
cautiously: "North or South?"

I get it all the time.

[buddy bradley]

I have a friend who thnks that I'm Cuba. This guy's always asking me to send him some cigars.

[sheba]

I got....

Don't go and marry a Chinese boy while you're there!

and

Can you speak any Chinese?

and

That Chinese paper you took will come in handy!

[Bulsajo]

[Ryst Helmut]

[Dawn]

Instead of differentiating between the two Koreas as "North" and "South," the U.S. Postal Service's rate guide simply lists them as "Republic of Korea" and "Democratic People's Republic of Korea."

Every time I've tried mailing packages from my home town post office, I've had convince the clerks that South Korea was the ROK, not the DPRK. One went so far as to tell me she couldn't insure the $300 worth of teaching materials I was shipping over if I insisted on sending them to the ROK. Told me that everybody knew N. Korea wasn't a democratic government, so that DPRK "had" to be South Korea. Never mind that I was shipping the boxes to my own address over here and even produced my alien registration card in an attempt to convince her that I was a bit more familiar with the area than she was.

[Hanson]

1) "Korea.......... Korea.......... Isn't that next to India?"

2) "So, how are the Gooks?" (actually semi-acurate, but still)

3) "Hwaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhh" (Bruce Lee imitation)

4) "North or South?" (Me: "South") "Which one is the communist one again?"

[jajdude]