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joe_doufu · Joined: 09 May 2005 Location: Elsewhere

Koreans are the masters of politely not noticing anything out of the ordinary. I swear to God I've been strolling around Gangnam this morning in full-on "angel" costume, wings halo and all, and less than ten people have even been so gauche as to let me realize they've noticed and smile at me. This society is so strange... as if my wings must be some kind of genetic anomaly and they all assume I'm embarrassed if people notice?

Hater Depot · Joined: 29 Mar 2005

Ever lived in New York?

Tiberious aka Sparkles · Joined: 23 Jan 2003 Location: I'm one cool cat!

nicknack · Joined: 27 Oct 2005

That's got to be because you are in Kangnam. I'm three hours away in the sticks and when I walk down the street here l feel like a monkey with a briefcase. That's just for being foreign. No wings. It stinks.

I used to work in Kangnam and it was fine. I went back for a weekend last month and couldn't believe how many foreigners I saw. People there are getting used to it. Much more than just a few years ago when I started coming to Korea to teach.

Leave Seoul and you turn the clock back years and years. Try those wings down here.

peppermint · Posted: Sun Oct 30, 2005 5:43 pm Post subject:

Definitely a Kangnam thing. I've been strolling around the school with a set of devil horns and I'm now called "ang ma seon sang nim"

Big Mac · Joined: 17 Sep 2005

Well, if you were fat that would be one out of the ordinary thing that they would notice and probably go out of their way to comment on.

If you had a zit on your face, they would probably notice that too and they would be sure to point it out to you.

Maybe angel wings are different, I don't know. But from what I've seen, Koreans have a hard time dealing with things that are out of the ordinary.

Maybe they thought you were a crazy person and felt that you might lose face if they pointed out that you were crazy.

Why were you walking around in an angel costume anyway? I mean, I know it's halloween and all...but an angel costume in a country that doesn't celebrate halloween???

Col.Brandon · Joined: 09 Aug 2004 Location: Seoul

Start a fire in a subway car and see what happens.

SPINOZA · Joined: 10 Jun 2005 Location: $eoul

I had women's pantyhose tied round my head on Saturday night in Gangnam. I got plenty of looks and laughs, I can assure you. Very silly behaviour on my part of course, but the pantyhose were originally part of a Halloween costume.

vlcupper · Joined: 12 Aug 2004 Location: Gangnam

antoniothegreat · Joined: 28 Aug 2005 Location: Yangpyeong

he he, today I am at school dressed up as a student, I borrowed a student's uniform, oh, they notice...

vlcupper · Joined: 12 Aug 2004 Location: Gangnam

periwinkle · Joined: 08 Feb 2003

My former co-workers dressed up as Christ (he really did look like him, too) and Satan. They walked around Pupyong like that, and their friend video-taped it. They handed-out candy to passers-by, as well. That video is priceless.

RACETRAITOR · Joined: 24 Oct 2005 Location: Seoul, South Korea

I saw a girl in an angel costume walking through �� Terminal station this morning.

SuperFly · Joined: 09 Jul 2003 Location: In the doghouse

I won 250 dollars in the contest for best costume. I was a medicine man.

joe_doufu · Joined: 09 May 2005 Location: Elsewhere