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[drexler]

Does anybody have any opinions on how Koreans experience time and what this does to their sense of memory? I've been here for less than a year but things happen so fast and change all the time that I find it hard to remember what happened five days ago, let alone a few months.

Living like this can be quite distorting and it's like being in a never-ending present where everything is constantly in flux. And I wonder if Koreans ever have time to reflect on their history, one which is full of massive events and continues to influence society today.

Maybe people who have been here longer or who actually know more Koreans than I do would have a better idea about this???

[mikowee]

[drexler]

Yeah, or maybe just the withdrawl symptoms after all these months.

[jessie-b]

I was just talking about this yesterday with my coworker. He was saying that foreigners seem so argumentative. I told him he was watching too many episodes of Prison Break which proved his point because I was "arguing" with him again. I told him that Koreans are always in rush rush mode and he agreed, saying it was "Korean style".

My own tentative thoughts on the matter. Everything developed so quickly after the war, a lot of it influenced by imperialism and racism. I don't think people have had time or space to reflect on the trauma and oppression. The thoughtless rushing, the desperate aquisition of new stuff reminds me of some of the hoarding patterns in my own family; pushing away the memory of struggle, trying to compete in a capitalist society. I feel sadly that this is the effect of colonialism, imperialism. The bland square concrete structures littering these rolling mountains tell the same story.

[bixlerscott]

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[Bondrock]

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