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[ed4444]

My Korean language comprehension is improving a little thesedays so I am always on the prowl for bits of conversation I can understand.

Last weekend I took my Korean girlfriend to Paris. There was a TTL promotion on in a hotel there so we decided to use it for a discount.

TTL basically hires a floor of a hotel in 4 cities (Rome, Interlaken (odd one out?, see my earlier post), Paris and London) and phone users can stay there for free (if they share with strangers) or get a discount.

They set up a separate check-in desk with two young Korean girls manning it in the hotel to cater for Korean's fear of foreigners and communication.

Before checking in, we were searching on the hotels free web console for a second hotel for when the promotion ended. One of the girls working there just came up and asked my gf, is that foreign guy your boyfriend?

She hadn't even introduced herself and she walked over expecially to ask. The tone of her question seemed to be just out of curiousity. I just replied in Korean quickly to say the answer was yes and that I could understand her. Then she went away giggling in embarrassment.

I will never get used to the Korean habit of asking questions like that to people they don't even know.

[itaewonguy]

ahhahaha yeah its funny..

so how can we benefit from these free hotels too?
please advise us on how we can setup and get a free hotel..
thanks..
post links etc..

[ed4444]

Go to TTL.co.kr.
Then choose TTL Event.
Then TTL Global Guest House 2005.

[jajdude]

[The Cosmic Hum]

That is expecially funny.

[Mashimaro]

how dare someone ask your girlfriend a question!!

[periwinkle]

[Cymro]

So you name the thread "Personal Questions from Koreans in Paris".

What's so strange? The personal question? (Which really isn't at all that personal unless you were trying to keep your relationship a secret.) The fact that a Korean asked? Or just because it all happened in Paris? (Of all places to be asked a question by someone!)

[ed4444]

I am not sure why I found it so intrusive. I think it was the way she walked over especially to ask.

They were not wearing the promotional costumes and dancing to bad techno. If they were I might have answered their question differently.

One funny thing was that we had just arrived in Paris but the hotel girls who had been working at the hotel all summer asked us to recommend somewhere nearby for them to eat. i sent them to the nearest crepe stand but they came back 5 minutes later with hotdogs. so sad.

[Gopher]

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