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mytime
Joined: 15 Oct 2006
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 Posted: Thu Nov 23, 2006 8:12 am Post subject: so koreans only meet friends and "seniors"? |
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I have been here 2 years now and every week a Korean tells me he/she met his/her senior
Not once has a Korean told me that he/she met a junior
What the hell? |
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OCOKA Dude
Joined: 04 Oct 2004
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Thu Nov 23, 2006 8:17 am Post subject: |
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| To admit having met a junior rather than a senior is to have admitted to a profound loss of face in this culture. Having met a senior -- assumedly at the senior's request -- implies distinction and suggests promotion. To have met a junior -- assumedly at the senior's request -- implies failure and suggests a slipping career. So goes life in this f***ed up country.... |
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captain kirk
Joined: 29 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Thu Nov 23, 2006 8:58 am Post subject: |
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Sounds like so much fun, doesn't? Such sweet abandon!  |
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Ya-ta Boy
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: Established in 1994
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| Posted: Thu Nov 23, 2006 1:39 pm Post subject: |
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| Not once has a Korean told me that he/she met a junior |
I worked at two jobs (8 years total) where seniors often met juniors for hiking and/or dinner and drinks. Both were corporate-structure places (a research institute and the military). I think you are in a different kind of place. Meeting juniors was quite common in the environment I worked in. |
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HapKi
Joined: 10 Dec 2004
Location: TALL BUILDING-SEOUL
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| Posted: Thu Nov 23, 2006 5:46 pm Post subject: |
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| Reminds me of a recent conversation in my housewives class. Talking about the changing of the seasons, the falling of the leaves and what not, they tell me that Fall is the season for men. I ask them the season for men in what way? They tell me the season for men to have affairs. Now seeing that the conversation can now go in many different directions, I ask what season is for women. Spring, they say. Now seeing that it takes two to tango, one for Fall and one for Spring, this all didn't make much sense to me, but we moved on. |
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eamo
Joined: 08 Mar 2003
Location: Shepherd's Bush, 1964.
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| Posted: Thu Nov 23, 2006 6:37 pm Post subject: |
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| HapKi wrote: |
| Reminds me of a recent conversation in my housewives class. Talking about the changing of the seasons, the falling of the leaves and what not, they tell me that Fall is the season for men. I ask them the season for men in what way? They tell me the season for men to have affairs. Now seeing that the conversation can now go in many different directions, I ask what season is for women. Spring, they say. Now seeing that it takes two to tango, one for Fall and one for Spring, this all didn't make much sense to me, but we moved on. |
Do Koreans have a convention for everything??!!! |
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