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ScottyG
Joined: 09 Jun 2006
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 Posted: Fri Nov 03, 2006 6:17 pm Post subject: What you don't know about UBlove.com |
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There are many websites in Korea that one can use to find a potential friend of the oppostie sex. Some are good, most are bad, and very few of them allow you to truly get in contact with anyone without paying.
KoreanFriendFinder dot com used to be good, but now seems to be fading. Is it just me or has it become over run with women in their mid 30's looking for "soulmates"?
I thought I'd give Ublove a try, and I even decided to pay. However, I later learned why none of the ladies I emailed were getting in contact with me. While I can send messages, and they can receive them, if I include an email address written plainly, Ublove blocks it out and insters "Ubmail" where it should be. The only way they can read the address is if they to are preferred members.
Is that not a bunch of crap??? You pay all that money, go to all that work, and it goes nowhere.
Therefore, if you use this site, simply write you address like this "hippy dippy english teacher in korea at hotmail dot com" instead of "[email protected]"
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gang ah jee
Joined: 14 Jan 2003
Location: city of paper
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| Posted: Fri Nov 03, 2006 6:25 pm Post subject: |
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Plus, some of the 'girls' are just western guys having a laugh.
Good times, good times. |
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ScottyG
Joined: 09 Jun 2006
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| Posted: Fri Nov 03, 2006 6:31 pm Post subject: |
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If dudes actually do that, they have waaaaaay too much time to waste on the internet. That also might indicate some closeted tendencies if you know what I mean.
Anyways, I mailed this one girl and noticed she never added me to msn, but kept winking at me everyday. I sent my address again and more winks. So I finally figured it out.
I am happy to say I met and am still meeting the girl in question, and it was worth the 25 bucks for the membership. |
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gang ah jee
Joined: 14 Jan 2003
Location: city of paper
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| Posted: Fri Nov 03, 2006 6:53 pm Post subject: |
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| ScottyG wrote: |
| If dudes actually do that, they have waaaaaay too much time to waste on the internet. |
Well, it only takes a couple of minutes to make a profile, then you just sit back and watch the painfully awkward simplified English and pidgin Korean messages from English teachers roll in. A friend and I made a couple of fake girls years ago, and one of them is still getting mail. Caught more than a few eslcafe posters as well.
Good to hear that the service worked out well for you though. |
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europe2seoul
Joined: 12 Sep 2005
Location: Seoul, Korea
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Sending messages and stuff is OK, but best is to use chat. Then you just talk to the girl and you can exchange phone #'s and stuff. Worked better for me and much easier.
Ah, an it says that a full member can not write back and you can't give email address if you look at the restrictions. Seems K-girls do not wanna pay. |
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stumptown
Joined: 11 Apr 2005
Location: Paju: Wife beating capital of Korea
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| Posted: Fri Nov 03, 2006 7:45 pm Post subject: |
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Before I learned what it meant, I got a lot of responses from girls saying I live at Cheongnyanri (sp?) 588.  |
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cdninkorea
Joined: 27 Jan 2006
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Fri Nov 03, 2006 7:46 pm Post subject: |
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| stumptown wrote: |
| Before I learned what it meant, I got a lot of responses from girls saying I live at Cheongnyanri (sp?) 588. |
What does it mean? |
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stumptown
Joined: 11 Apr 2005
Location: Paju: Wife beating capital of Korea
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| Posted: Fri Nov 03, 2006 7:51 pm Post subject: |
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| cdninkorea wrote: |
| stumptown wrote: |
| Before I learned what it meant, I got a lot of responses from girls saying I live at Cheongnyanri (sp?) 588. |
What does it mean? |
It's a major train station in Seoul and it's chock full of the "glasshouses" where the prostitutes are. Funny because right next to all the places is the police station. Also surreal is the fact that there is a department store there and the only way to get to and leave the parking structure is to drive past all of them. So all of these families and their kids have to drive past all these hot chicks in bikinis and microminiskirts standing outside waiting for customers. |
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Col.Brandon
Joined: 09 Aug 2004
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Fri Nov 03, 2006 8:17 pm Post subject: |
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I met my wife through UBLove. Seriously. It's our first anniversary next month.
Online dating done properly and with honest intentions is an extremely efficient way to meet someone without all that time wasting crap of, "Is she single? Is she interested in me? etc." It sorts the wheat from the chaff quite well in my opinion. |
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jajdude
Joined: 18 Jan 2003
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djsmnc
Joined: 20 Jan 2003
Location: Dave's ESL Cafe
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| Posted: Fri Nov 03, 2006 10:49 pm Post subject: |
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A lot of other dating sites hide emails from non-subscribers too. Yahoo is a good example.
UBLove is good for in-betweeners. You may have a steady Saturday nighter, but you may need a wild one for Friday nights. Or a last minute Sunday nighter to put a smile on your face at 7 am on Monday. |
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JeJuJitsu
Joined: 11 Sep 2005
Location: McDonald's
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| Posted: Sat Nov 04, 2006 2:31 am Post subject: |
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| gang ah jee wrote: |
Plus, some of the 'girls' are just western guys having a laugh.
Good times, good times. |
...and some are just profiles made up by the company itself, sending ugly guys profiles of pretend hotties, so they spend their $20. |
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adventureman
Joined: 18 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Sat Nov 04, 2006 2:40 am Post subject: |
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If dudes actually do that, they have waaaaaay too much time to waste on the internet. That also might indicate some closeted tendencies if you know what I mean.
Anyways, I mailed this one girl and noticed she never added me to msn, but kept winking at me everyday. I sent my address again and more winks. So I finally figured it out.
I am happy to say I met and am still meeting the girl in question, and it was worth the 25 bucks for the membership. |
What's her ID? A few guys on here have probably had their way with her already.... |
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ScottyG
Joined: 09 Jun 2006
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| Posted: Sat Nov 04, 2006 4:34 pm Post subject: |
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| yeah.....i know i'm not the first, and she knows she isn't my first either. this is all part of the "sex and the city" revolution that has been going on in korea. ask any girl with decent english skill and a slgihtly opening mind, and she will tell you excitedly that her favorite show is "sex and the city." this is good, and also very bad. |
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Smee
Joined: 24 Dec 2004
Location: Jeollanam-do
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| Posted: Sun Nov 05, 2006 12:06 am Post subject: |
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UBlove has worked well for me. Not for dating or "soul mates," or whatever, but it's nice to chat with someone during my spare time. It's good for practicing Korean and for meeting people outside of the hagwon/teaching circuit. And obviously, as with anything else, there are going to be people who are less than honest in their profiles. But by this point you should be able to spot a fake. People I've talked to have avoided the email filter by just typing their address as "Smee123 at gmail" or something like that.
I did "meet" a coworker online with ublove, which was . . . unexpected. |
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