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baixiaojie
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Vancouver
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| lol nice username. |
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loniponi
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| Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2007 7:43 am Post subject: women in korea |
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i'm a woman from the usa. 28 years old. treatment of foreign women? a typical korean man's persepective of a woman of any race is different than a typical american/canadian guy. if i were to date a typical korean man, it would be like going back 50 years in the states. equality doesn't really exist. i've had VERY little experience talking with korean men, because we rarely approach each other. i just joined a gym, where i have had some of my first conversations with korean men. even my korean girlfriends say that korean men like submissive, pretty, girly girls. so if you are confident, outspoken and independent ....good luck.
AND,..old korean men in seoul, pushed me to cut in front of me in lines. |
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baixiaojie
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seoulshock
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| Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2007 8:01 am Post subject: |
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Hey... babe... I know you...
wo shi ni gege...
PS: You might wanna stay off *this* forum when it comes to asking for advice -- people here have major issues. |
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baixiaojie
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baixiaojie
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peppermint
Joined: 13 May 2003
Location: traversing the minefields of caddishness.
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| Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2007 8:17 am Post subject: |
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Hey... babe... I know you...
wo shi ni gege...
PS: You might wanna stay off *this* forum when it comes to asking for advice -- people here have major issues. |
Says the guy who called all women prostitutes 
It's not a bad place. You hear lots about Korean being very safe, but women still have to keep their guard up to an extent. ( no different than anywhere) There are a few horror stories, but no more than what you'd find anywhere else I think
Dating wise, it takes a while to find your groove, but it's not as bad as all that. I've got lots of female friends married to k-guys and none of them are anywhere near submissive.
As for Loniponi's comment about old Korean men. That's not a gender thing or even an age thing, just an "I don't know you" thing.
I never noticed male co workers getting preferential treatment, or had trouble makiing friends, at all. I had to dress a little conservatively ( no tanktops) and deal with being asked if I were Russian, the guys had to deal with being mistaken for American GIs
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Atavistic
Joined: 22 May 2006
Location: How totally stupid that Korean doesn't show in this area.
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I think foreign women tend to get less shit/bring less shit down upon them. Some of the stuff these men write about--fights and getting spit at and things like that...I've never experienced it and neither have any of my female friends. You won't get mistaken for military as much. Nobody thinks you're here to steal "their" women.
(Actually, scratch that. I know a very fat, very unhappy, very alcoholic woman--from a country starting with C--will basically lives in Itaewon. She's gotten into a few bar fights with the "skinny Korean bitches.")
As for dating here...many of the Western men act like jealous dogs with bones. Many Western men here will date Korean women and bitch about the Koreans that don't like it; the minute a Western women starts dating a Korean man the Western men start ragging on her about it. Korean men are pussies, they'll cheat, you must like small dicks, etc. "I don't want the bone, but dammit, other dog can't have it either!"
Most Korean men won't give you the time of day, but the ones who will aren't usually traditional, so they're worth a shot. I do have experience being friends with Korean men (language partners, taekwondo, etc) and they are great. I think too many Westerns (men and women) base their experience with Korean men on their boss, coworkers, and ajosshis. Korean men can be really awesome (in whatever context).
Sexism is worse here than where I'm from, but the degree to which I've been helped BECAUSE I AM FEMALE is greater, too.
I feel much much much safer walking around here at night than I ever did back home. |
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seoulshock
Joined: 12 Jul 2005
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| Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2007 8:21 am Post subject: |
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Hey... babe... I know you...
wo shi ni gege...
PS: You might wanna stay off *this* forum when it comes to asking for advice -- people here have major issues. |
Says the guy who called all women prostitutes |
Liar... I never said all... |
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twg
Joined: 02 Nov 2006
Location: Getting some fresh air...
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| Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2007 8:33 am Post subject: |
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| Thinks women are hos wrote: |
| peppermint wrote: |
| Thinks women are hos wrote: |
| PS: You might wanna stay off *this* forum when it comes to asking for advice -- people here have major issues. |
Says the guy who called all women prostitutes |
Liar... I never said all... |
"Most" is just so much better I think you've managed to deflect any question about you having issues, son. |
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baixiaojie
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seoulshock
Joined: 12 Jul 2005
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| Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2007 8:55 am Post subject: |
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| baixiaojie wrote: |
| twg wrote: |
| Thinks women are hos wrote: |
| peppermint wrote: |
| Thinks women are hos wrote: |
| PS: You might wanna stay off *this* forum when it comes to asking for advice -- people here have major issues. |
Says the guy who called all women prostitutes |
Liar... I never said all... |
"Most" is just so much better I think you've managed to deflect any question about you having issues, son. |
aw.. i know seoulshock from elsewhere; he's a nice guy. i'm sure if he said that, he didn't mean it how it sounded. |
Of course I'm a nice 'gege'. They lie about what I say, and then take it out of context. 
-koreatown gege |
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Masta_Don
Joined: 17 Aug 2006
Location: Hyehwa-dong, Seoul
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| Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2007 9:16 am Post subject: Re: women in korea |
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| loniponi wrote: |
even my korean girlfriends say that korean men like submissive, pretty, girly girls. so if you are confident, outspoken and independent ....good luck.
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And honestly, most foreigners that I talk to that like Korean girls have the same feelings; they should be submissive and pretty. I don't think it's a cultural thing, just a personality thing. Not all foreigners or all Koreans, not all blacks or all Jews.
I mean my jaw dropped the first time I heard from a foreigner that he had never been to bed with a boring K-girl. It has to be a matter of preference. |
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paquebot
Joined: 20 Jun 2007
Location: Northern Gyeonggi-do
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| [ deleted: irrelevant to the original question ] |
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