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joe_doufu · Joined: 09 May 2005 Location: Elsewhere

... when a frazzled ajosshi gets on the elevator at the 2nd Floor (the cafeteria and mid-day drinking floor) stinking like he's pulled 2 or 3 straight all-nighters without a shower... and all the Koreans on the elevator start giving me judgemental looks and slowly moving away from me, even though I was there from the 1st Floor and am freshly showered and well-groomed.

seoulhiker · Joined: 24 Aug 2005

....when my next door neighbor invites over his five drinking buddies at 2 am for a singing/wrestling/male-bonding/soju-drinking session.

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

ChimpumCallao · Joined: 17 May 2005 Location: your mom

when some morons decide to have a chat in the middle of the subway stairs, at a turnstyle, in the middle of a busy street.

Seriously, there's 'aloof' and then there's just being an incosiderate ass.

OR

The ajushi who is taking too much room on the subway, legs apart and WILL NOT BUDGE because he is "KOREA MAN!" and he is proclaming his all important subway territory. These are the same a-holes that you basically have to turn sideways for so as not to bump them...THEY WILL NOT BUDGE.

Having been to both High School in the US and a regular street in Seoul, I can honestly say that American teenagers are more considerate and well mannered than your average 30 something ajuma/ajushi. No bumping into, no sudden stops on busy halls, no drunkenesque moronic swaying and zig zagging, chewing with mouths closed...bah...who would have thought...

deessell · Joined: 08 Jun 2005

...When I go to five banks and none of them will give me an international card to withdraw MY MONEY overseas. Twisted Evil

hack · Joined: 24 Jan 2003

When a cabby behind me jumps out of his taxi and starts screaming at me because I refuse to go through a red light.

Satori · Joined: 09 Dec 2005 Location: Above it all

When a drunk adjossi staggers up to me on the subway platform at 3pm and says "Hey, monkey, got a light?"

khyber · Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Location: Compunction Junction

when i talk to the female friends around me who are in abusive relationships who refuse to get a divorce....<i know you can sue if there's been aldultery...anyone know about smackin' around?>

waggo · Joined: 18 May 2003 Location: pusan baby!

When a complete stranger ...nearly every single day that I've have lived in this country for four years....performs an act of kindness for me, for no other reason probably,no other reason than that i happen to be white.

The B@rstards!

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

On the plane, the drunken adjoshi who stares at the mixed Korean babies and couples with contempt.

kathycanuck · Joined: 05 Dec 2005 Location: Namyangju

My fav is the guy who was screaming his head off at 3am, pounding at some woman's door.Finally I hear a police loudspeaker and look out my window. The guy's in the middle of the street, in front of the police car which is backing up as he approaches. When he finally stumbles out of their path....they drive away!!! (He was subsequently almost annihilated by a cab.....last seen staggering off down the middle of the road.
"To Protect and Serve"

rapier · Joined: 16 Feb 2003

Kimchieluver · Joined: 02 Mar 2005

When I feel like it.

Cedar · Posted: Fri Dec 16, 2005 7:26 am Post subject:

Most of them... I don't think I am tolerant or PC about Korea at all... I try not to get pissed, I try not to yell at people... it just doesn't always work out that way. I tend to be pretty outspoken. I'm the one on the elevator that's like "What a stench! And it's only 2 o'clock!" (In Korean, of course).

jacl · Joined: 31 Oct 2005