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[shawner88]

I guess mine is the time I had jock itch and tried to explain it to the hospital staff and the ambulance driver came in and tried to help out with his few sentences of English: "I am ambulance man. I am happy. I like Kimchi. Can I help you?" Then they sent me up to the skin doctor who was a woman.

[The Great Wall of Whiner]

A Korean was driving, not so very strange.

He saw a white guy, within his close range.

"Where does he come from? Where, oh where?!"

"I must slow down so that I can stare!"

He hit the brake, as to have a good look.

And as he gets rear-ended, my head just shook...

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Class full of kids, all speaking Korean.

New teacher walks in, pretends not to understand.

He's cute. No he's not. He has a big nose. They all have a big nose.

And on it goes.

At the end of the class, the teacher knows about his big nose.

He knows that Tony and Carl think their teacher looks scary.

He knows that Jessica thinks he is cute, while Mary disagrees.

Edward wonders if the teacher is gay, as he has an ear ring.

"Does he have a girlfriend?" "How old is he?" So many questions.

"O.K., to answer all your questions: I am 26, I do have a girlfriend, my nose is not so big compared to other foreigners, and NO...I am not gay."

(The students NEVER spoke Korean again after that).

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A friend and I were arguing about where to go on Friday night. A new teacher to Korea whom we did not know was sitting across from us on the subway.

It was decided we would go to Myeongdong. My friend however pronounces it "my-young-dong" instead of it's proper way.

As we get off to transfer, the other guy follws us. "Hey wait up!"

"Hi! What's up?"

"Is myeongdong a gay bar district?"

We cracked up laughing.

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My friend and I are sitting at my table discussing Canadian politics. We were making fun of some of our politicians. In particular, Preston Manning, Hedy Fry, and Paul Martin.

My friend asked me "of all those you named, who do you like the least?"

We had been drinking, so we were a bit animated.

I stood up and slapped the table. "Fry!"

My girlfriend, who was sitting with us, perked up because now she understood what we were talking about.

"Where is fry? Did you get it?"

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[Seoul Newfie]

I have one close to the one posted by The Great Wall of Whiner and the man driving the car.

A group of friends and I are trying to get a taxi around 6pm in Youngdeungpo one evening after work when. Several passed and didn't pick us up, and then came the "one". He slowed down to stare at us, and then started to drive off again, but continued to stare back at us. We were very close to a set of lights (which were red at the time) and he rear-ended a car in front of him.

They both got out and had a heated dicussion in which the taxi driver pointed to us "white folk" on the side of the streets telling the other driver he hit that it was our fault (if your wondering how we knew this a Korean was with us).

The taxi driver insited that it was not his fault because he was looking at the white people on the road.

If you ask me, it could not have happened to a better person (damn taxi drivers).

[shawner88]

Oh another time I was supposed to meet a recruiter at Hyundai Department store in Ulsan.

I called the recruiter from a payphone. He said, "Shawn where are you now?"

I told him.

"I can' t see you, Shawn. Can you see the KFC?"

"Yes?"

"Go there."

I went there and waited, he never showed. I called him back.

"Shawn? Where are you now? Can you see the McDonald's?"

"Yes! I'll meet you there."

This went on several more times until he figured out he was at the Hyundai Department store across the city which is surrounded by the same stores. We had a pretty good laugh when we finally met up.

[Crazy Oz]

My hotmail account actually worked on one occassion.





Still crazy, still here.



CPA- you are a crack-up......love ya posts.....email me ....ooopppss...damn hotmail.

[Tobacco Fiend]

A bizarre variant of the jock itch story:

I came down with the dratted thing myself a couple of months into my stay here. At the corner pharmacy, I tried everything conceivable, in English, pantomime, and my still very little limited Korean, to get across what the problem was. The pharmacist looked utterly baffled. His suprisingly large staff gathered round to look baffled along with him. Here I am pointing at my crotch and looking like an utter fool. Surely there must be an anti-fungal cream in here somewhere.

Suddenly it came to me. I know the medical term for this! God only knows where this exceedingly odd tidbit of knowledge came from, but I do!

"Tinea," I said to him. "Tinea cruris." It was my final move.

"Ah! Tin-ee-AH!" The pharmacist's face suddenly brightened with recognition. He immediately produced a thin tube which was conveniently labeled "anti-fungal," in English.

"O cheon won imnida."

"Kamsa hamnida."

Mission accomplished!

Postscript: Latin a dead language? Never believe it!

[beebee]

Went to work with my skirt hitched up at the back caught in my pantyhose - no-one told me til I got off the bus - some arjuma came up and pulled it down.

[gomurr]

I guess it was the time an ex-korean girlfriend showed up at my door drunk as a skunk at 2:00 in the morning. Anyway I hadn't seen her for about 4 months prior to this. Anyway she comes over and I let her in. She starts yippin at me in Korean and I have no clue what she is talking about. Next she gets really riled up and takes off one of her high heel shoes and whacks me with it a couple of times. Now I'm seriously bewildered and I don't even touch her just talk to her nicely. But it seems to piss her off more and she sees some empty beer bottles by the door. So she picks them up and starts chuckin them against the wall. I was so shocked that I just stood there. Finally she ran out of bottles and decided to go home but not before she put a rock in the downstairs door.
When my Korean roomates got home I had to do some fast explaining and after we cleaned up the mess, my buds and I had a good laugh over it. This happened in '97 Kangnung and the glass in the downstairs door still hasn't been fixed even though I and my roomamtes have moved.

[udenjoe]

While a police officer on foot was pulling over a car, the driver hit a parked hakwon bus! The car must have been moving at idle speed. I had to hold back from laughing out loud.

Another time me and my girlfriend were comming out of the subway near Apkujeong(spelling?) and this young Korean guy, who must have been high or partially retarded begain telling us how beautiful mongoloid and caucus something. Then he began singing some unintelligable r&b tune.

Another time in the subway, alot of subway here, another definite mentally challenged guy started asking me if I knew the WWF. Then he started mentioning things like "da Undertakuh". He was quite friendly and his English was better than many well educated mentally normal Koreans. Although he kept spitting when he talked and getting in my face. Just real friendly.

Another time in a subway platform this girl asked my girlfriend what time it was. And asking if it was the right station. She also mentioned her father was a dong-kats-e(pork cutlet) chef. She had mental problems too.

Here's another one. At Seoul Station there was a protest of handicapped people. The riot police surrounded them. As we took a peek over their shoulders to see people on the ground and in wheelchairs, a cop told us it was dangerous to look!

Another time I was at a pool hall with some work mates. This girl tripped as she walked in and left right away. The guy who was experienced in everything Korean said she would be right back for a better enterance. Low and behold. This was my first laugh.

[W.T.Carl]

Let's see, there were so many. I think back to the time my school sent me to Dr. Cho's OB/Gyn clinic when I had the flu, or maybe it was then time I tried to get a hair cut at the local barbershop. When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro and it doesn't get any weirder than Korea.

[mysteriousdeltarays]

I have been here for many years. This one dates back.
I'm crossing the street, bridge really but masquerading as a street, with my Korean Girlfriend (Capitalized) I look over to the left at a large piece of styrofoam floating down the river, it is on fire. I point and say look at that! She hits me on the head with a piece of a concret block, knocks me about senseless and says "last month I saw you looking at that girl!" I never did quite figure out what she was refering to!

[lawyertood]

You ever go to band camp?

[girl25]

this thread is HILARIOUS!!!!! and i have a few stories and interesting experiences myself, although most of the time i am a victim of my own stupidity and now i just happen to be in korea

there was the time that i spent an evening doing "one shot" "one shot" and passed out in my cab on the way home, so my cab driver just drove around for an hour or so until i woke up.... should have cost me 2,000 won, cost me over 10,000. then of course i was late for work the next morning and jumped in a taxi only to have my taxi get into an accident. when i got to school and explained that my taxi hit another taxi, no one seemed even a little bit surprised or concerned- and to tell you the truth, i no longer am either.

then there was halloween. with our heart and rabbit shaped balloons, bobbing for tangerines and children wearing birthday hats as costumes.... that was classic!!!!

oh and i can't forget the time a friend and i got locked in a department store after it was closed. went to the movies and after the show realized the enterance we came in was locked and had NO IDEA how to get out. wandered around for 20 minutes or so until an angry korean secruity guard escorted us out!!!

and there are many more stories.... and i have only been here for four months!!!!

[sillywilly]

Yesterday one of my kindergarten kids grabbed onto my leg and pulled my pants down. Luckily my butt was facing the wall and not the cameras and noone was passing in the hallway. I was in so much shock all I could say was: "no. " in a meak voice.

[the_beaver]

I've met that wwf guy that udenjoe mentioned. The first time was about six years and he rattled off the name of different wrestlers. I ran into him again a couple of years after that, and the last time, just about a year ago, he saw me and said (in Korean) "you again," and rattled off the names one more time.

Once I was driving with no license (my friend had been drinking) and we got stopped by cops checking for drunk drivers. I was with three Koreans and my German roommate. I told everybody to speak only English and the cop asked to see my license (lie-sen-suh) so we all pretended not to understand him. He asked for my card (ca-duh) and we all pretended not to understand him. After a few minutes of this he got frustrated and waved us along.