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[519forlife]

Cons:
Dirty(streets look like garbage dumps)
The puke on the streets and the subways
The stench of Soju on the subway in the evening
The disrespectful kids in public school
The whole age makes right culture
The "foreigner" card being played relentlessly
The acceptance of men hitting women
The rude(by western standareds)people
The eating habits of Koreans(disgusting)
The shatter paper being put in a garbage can and stinking up the place.
The lack of (or quality of)lesiure activities
Now this might just be me, but is there a disproportionate amount of people lacking common sense here?

Now the Pros
The public transportation system
The food
The cost of living
The easy and plentiful jobs
The girls, although really the majority are butt
Being sought after because you look unique
Learning a new language for free
The whole education system that hungers for whitey based on his or her looks and not qualifications.

When you add it all up even though the cons out number the pros the pros definatly trump the cons. That's why we're all still here. Anytime I get almost fed up with this place I just think about the $$$ and how this is just a developing country like Somalia or The Phillipines and all is cool again.

[Dev]

Cons
Imported goods (especially food) costing double the price of back home. Koreans in our countries would scream if we did the same to their products.

Racism directed at migrant workers

Pros
Korean friends are very generous sharing food and resources
Korea's a very safe place to walk around at night
Most services in this country are very fast
Being allowed to drink beer on the street.

[butlerian]

[Newbie]

PROS
1. easy work
2. abundance of leisure activities (op, they're out there. tonnes of em)
3. proximity to exotic locations
4. respectful middle/high school students
5. the odd (and for me, they're rare) overly kind stranger.
6. my fiancee
7. cheap (for us non apartment renting folk)
8. safety (perhaps not always safe for foreigners, but more or less safe)
9. turning my soon to be father in law into a "foreigners are great" from a "I hate foreigners I can't believe my daughter is dating one" in just one meeting.

CONS
1. nationalism
2. my fellow Canadians
3. dirt, trash, filth etc.
4. not enough hockey
5. no Home Depots
6. food is okay, but can't be compared to what's available back home
7. office politics ... to me, their much worse here.
8. "no foreigner" policies
9. "hi, hi" giggle giggle "i'm fine thank you" giggle giggle

[dridgway]

9. "hi, hi" giggle giggle "i'm fine thank you" giggle giggle

I'll second that one. Care to elaborate on Con #2?

[Hollywoodaction]

Pros...to many to mention

Cons...Just two, check that, three big ones.

1)The government's cover up of the real levels of pollution in this country. Sorry, but if you kind find heavy metal pollution within an 8km radius of some disaffected mines (as they recently revealed), imagine how far these metals are spread by the smoke towers at smelters.

2) Factories routinely turning off their anti-pollution devices on holidays and weekends. Next time there's a holiday, take a walk by your local industrial park...or rather, don't.


3) Korean media's eagerness to print government agit-prop and the fact it's always about Japan, the US, and foreign residents, but never about North Korea.

[Newbie]

[ajgeddes]

[Dev]

[Milwaukiedave]

Yeah I agree in terms of what I call "drive by" English. I get that all the time, even at the public school I work at.

Maybe we should include as a "con" putting up with Konglish.

"Hiee nice to meet you."

"Whata is your namea?"

[jaganath69]

[Pak Yu Man]

Pros- you can eat out every night and still have $$
-easy ife style
-free time
-wife

Cons -wife ㅋㅋㅋ
- K: "go home yankie!" "Huh? I'm Canadian." K: "Same Same"
-apathetic students
-dirty whores everywhere....whores on wheels. Or is that a con?

[kimchi_pizza]

Con: Korea is......Korea


Pro: Korea is......Korea

Hey, it is what it is....for better AND worse. But is suits me just fine and that's all that matters.

[Qinella]

519for life.. was 519 your area code growing up?

[Dev]