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mgafunnell
Joined: 11 Apr 2007
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 Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2007 1:32 am Post subject: which customs will you reatin |
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| Are there any Korean customs you will retain upon your return home? |
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Newbie
Joined: 07 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2007 1:48 am Post subject: |
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| Not quite a custom, but I've retained the Korean "hn" sound when trying to agree with what people are saying. Everytime I go home and use it my friends just about go nuts. |
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Junior
Joined: 18 Nov 2005
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| Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2007 2:02 am Post subject: |
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| I like the way Koreans faces are rather inexpressive. |
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rawiri
Joined: 01 Jun 2003
Location: Lovely day for a fire drill.
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| Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2007 2:06 am Post subject: |
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| The shoes off in the house deal, makes a lot of sense really. |
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pkang0202
Joined: 09 Mar 2007
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| Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2007 2:19 am Post subject: |
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Shoes off is a good one.
Another would be eating various "anju" with alcohol. |
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wylies99
Joined: 13 May 2006
Location: I'm one cool cat!
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| Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2007 2:19 am Post subject: |
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| The shoes off in the house deal, makes a lot of sense really. |
Why? For me it's just a pain in the arse |
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princess
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: soul of Asia
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| Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2007 2:28 am Post subject: |
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| wylies99 wrote: |
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| The shoes off in the house deal, makes a lot of sense really. |
Why? For me it's just a pain in the arse |
It cuts down on flithy germs in the house though. Do you realize what kind of crap is on the bottom of your shoes? |
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RACETRAITOR
Joined: 24 Oct 2005
Location: Seoul, South Korea
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| Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2007 2:39 am Post subject: |
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Never pouring your own drink. I taught it to the Edmonton skinheads last time I went back.
| Junior wrote: |
| I like the way Koreans faces are rather inexpressive. |
I think exactly the opposite. Koreans don't guard their emotions in public like we do. |
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RACETRAITOR
Joined: 24 Oct 2005
Location: Seoul, South Korea
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By the way, in Canada we usually take our shoes off when we enter someone's home.
I don't understand how it works in the US. Would you wear your shoes in the bedroom? Can you sit on the floor inside? What if you step in mud or worse? Will you still track that inside, or will you take your shoes off then? |
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yingwenlaoshi
Joined: 12 Feb 2007
Location: ... location, location!
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| Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2007 2:43 am Post subject: |
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| RACETRAITOR wrote: |
Never pouring your own drink. I taught it to the Edmonton skinheads last time I went back.
| Junior wrote: |
| I like the way Koreans faces are rather inexpressive. |
I think exactly the opposite. Koreans don't guard their emotions in public like we do. |
The Edmonton Skinheads? Is that a football team?
But yeah. Pouring drinks for other people is one that I'll probably use back home. Although it can be annoying. Having to pour every single fkn time someone's glass is empty is stressing. Just a once every so often kind of deal. Thing is, we're usually drinking straight out of the bottle back home, so there wouldn't be much of a chance to do that.
Using chopsticks is not really a custom, so to speak, but I'll be using them much more when I go back home. Being in Taiwan and Korea for over four years, it's no surprise. Food tastes better with them as far as I'm concerned. With the exception of a good steak. Even spaghetti is better with chopsticks.
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mgafunnell
Joined: 11 Apr 2007
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| Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2007 2:47 am Post subject: |
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| racetraitor, you're from edmonton? i'm currently in kananaskis |
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VirginIslander
Joined: 24 May 2006
Location: Busan
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| Fanatic emphasis on second language acquistition. |
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Smee
Joined: 24 Dec 2004
Location: Jeollanam-do
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| Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2007 2:52 am Post subject: |
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| RACETRAITOR wrote: |
By the way, in Canada we usually take our shoes off when we enter someone's home.
I don't understand how it works in the US. Would you wear your shoes in the bedroom? Can you sit on the floor inside? What if you step in mud or worse? Will you still track that inside, or will you take your shoes off then? |
Everybody will give you a different answer. For about the last 4 years I've reflexively (sp?) taken off my shoes inside (something I picked up from Asian friends in the US). But, growing up we'd wear our shoes frequently, unless they were visibly wet or dirty. Lately my parents don't really do that anymore . . . but they don't make an effort to take off their shoes, either. If they're comfortable with them on, they leave them on. When guests visit us, or vice versa, they don't take off their shoes unless they're wet or dirty.
This question comes up every once in a while, and I think the last time somebody had a poll the results were 50/50. It's weird, though . . . if you ever watch American TV (just saw it on Everybody Loves Raymond) you'll see characters wearing their shoes while lying on (not in) the bed. |
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Smee
Joined: 24 Dec 2004
Location: Jeollanam-do
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Oh, forgot to answer the question:
- pouring drinks for others
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- an electric mat on the bed. Not a Korean thing, but something I first used here. Wonderful.
- eating anju while drinking. When I went back home between contracts it felt different to just sit at a bar without munching on something. |
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OiGirl
Joined: 23 Jan 2003
Location: Hoke-y-gun
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Always taking shoes off inside a relatively clean home with carpeting.
Keeping a roll of toilet paper at the desk and dining table.
Sleeping on a heated surface.
Passing papers, money, etc. with two hands.
Not writing names in red ink. |
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