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Adventurer
Joined: 28 Jan 2006
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 Posted: Sat Aug 18, 2007 3:12 pm Post subject: Nutters in Korea.. |
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| We all hear stories about people who seem somehow to be two beers short of a six pack, nutters, strange, or have way too much drama even for a Korean drama. Of course, most people associate the nutters with males. I have met a few male nutters, but I have dealt with female nutters. I suppose this country is a magnet for people with serious problems. Is it the same for other countries that has a lot of ESL teachers? Just curious.... |
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Cheonmunka
Joined: 04 Jun 2004
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| Posted: Sat Aug 18, 2007 4:07 pm Post subject: |
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A lot of Korean people have serious problems too. I would say a good 30% of people I meet and hear about and watch have some large issues in terms of having stunted personalities, lacking personal responsibility for their finances, inability to foster good relationships etc.
I would say most foreigners have problems related more to living in a foreign country than being actual nutters. But demographics and averages mean that there will be some of us crazies slipping in. |
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mrsquirrel
Joined: 13 Dec 2006
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| Posted: Sat Aug 18, 2007 4:50 pm Post subject: |
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| I think that the people who are in Korea are slightly better educated nutters than the dregs of society that you find in Vietnam, Cambodia and Thailand. |
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RACETRAITOR
Joined: 24 Oct 2005
Location: Seoul, South Korea
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| Posted: Sat Aug 18, 2007 6:18 pm Post subject: |
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| I've met and encountered and been threatened online by tons of nutjobs. Korea does seem to attract them. |
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Yu_Bum_suk
Joined: 25 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Sat Aug 18, 2007 8:06 pm Post subject: |
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My school district has hired a real liteny of nutters and what's funny is how to us relatively sane waygooks they have such obvious mental health problems, but to Koreans it takes ages for them to figure it out.
Maybe if certain Koreans learned to check references properly they'd stop getting the waygooks they deserve. |
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jajdude
Joined: 18 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Sun Aug 19, 2007 12:08 am Post subject: |
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| Weird is normal, so if you are normal, you are weird. If you aren't weird, man, you need help. That's just unnormal. |
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Demophobe
Joined: 17 May 2004
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| Posted: Sun Aug 19, 2007 12:11 am Post subject: |
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| RACETRAITOR wrote: |
| I've met and encountered and been threatened online by tons of nutjobs. Korea does seem to attract them. |
QFT. |
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jaganath69
Joined: 17 Jul 2003
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| Posted: Sun Aug 19, 2007 12:46 am Post subject: |
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| RACETRAITOR wrote: |
| I've met and encountered and been threatened online by tons of nutjobs. Korea does seem to attract them. |
Stories, please. |
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Adventurer
Joined: 28 Jan 2006
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| Posted: Sun Aug 19, 2007 8:40 am Post subject: |
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| jaganath69 wrote: |
| RACETRAITOR wrote: |
| I've met and encountered and been threatened online by tons of nutjobs. Korea does seem to attract them. |
Stories, please. |
Well, I am certain that there are plenty of nutters, nut jobs here. I used to think it was just the males, but I have talked to a couple of females who had way too much drama that would put a Korean drama to shame.
I remember, since you want a story, being on the subway and there was this fellow from South Carolina or North Carolina. I can't remember. I met him in Ilsan. He seemed like a nice enough guy, intelligent enough, and I think if he wasn't so much of a drinker he would be normal. Anyway, I think he seemed lost in Korea including job wise. I tried to set him straight and tell him to stop drinking. He told him his father also was a major drinker. Somewhere out of the blue the fellow told me he doesn't know why, but he feels the urge to procreate. Granted, I want to have kids someday, but the way he said this out of the blue sounded bizarre. Then there was this one guy who didn't talk to me and some others for months, because he thought it wasn't "professional". I don't know what that was all about. |
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Damulgun
Joined: 11 Mar 2007
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| Posted: Sun Aug 19, 2007 1:18 pm Post subject: |
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| Yu_Bum_suk wrote: |
My school district has hired a real liteny of nutters and what's funny is how to us relatively sane waygooks they have such obvious mental health problems, but to Koreans it takes ages for them to figure it out.
Maybe if certain Koreans learned to check references properly they'd stop getting the waygooks they deserve. |
Maybe the Korean never encountered a waygookin? |
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just4u
Joined: 30 May 2007
Location: Georgia, USA
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| Posted: Sun Aug 19, 2007 1:55 pm Post subject: |
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Adventurer
Joined: 28 Jan 2006
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| Posted: Sun Aug 19, 2007 5:08 pm Post subject: |
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I remember, since you want a story, being on the subway and there was this fellow from South Carolina or North Carolina. I can't remember. I met him in Ilsan. He seemed like a nice enough guy, intelligent enough, and I think if he wasn't so much of a drinker he would be normal. Anyway, I think he seemed lost in Korea including job wise. I tried to set him straight and tell him to stop drinking. He told him his father also was a major drinker. Somewhere out of the blue the fellow told me he doesn't know why, but he feels the urge to procreate. Granted, I want to have kids someday, but the way he said this out of the blue sounded bizarre. |
Yup, that's the Southern United States for you. Drinking and breeding, driving and crying. It actually makes me miss Korea. Sad. It would be heart wrenching if it weren't so utterly predictable. At least in Korea, I would meet a "wild card" whitey every once in a while.
EDIT: The drinking part isn't so bad, really, but it's everyone's bizzare desire here to have five kids, (conceived when the mother is 14-21) and then hate those kids and complain about them constantly, scrap with them in public, and then marry at 21, go back to school at 25 and get a "hate on" for all those women who DIDN'T have kids at 14. And then, there are the bar fights, and the women who look like Pam Anderson but act like Missy Elliot. (They look so girly but have more testosterone than men, and all want to fight each other.)
Anyway, what you wrote sounds typical. But, there's wackier foreigners from even more bizzare places. I know, I have met them, but out of politeness I will refrain from commenting.  I just know that it could be worse.  |
Who is that babe in that picture? She looks like a sweet-heart. I would prefer someone like that over anything local anyday. I sure miss seeing women like that everywhere:)
The South can be an interesting place, that's true. I suppose when I did live in the South I did deal with nutters. At one time, I sold cell phones in an area that used to be a very rural part of Texas that recently got developed. Boy, did I get some people with strange attitudes, people with tempers, bad manners. Some people were nice, though.
Also, some of the people on Dave's look nuts. That is one reason I am careful about meeting people from here. I had to make sure that the person is not someone who would like embarass me in public. It can happen. It has happened to me. I won't elaborate. |
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just4u
Joined: 30 May 2007
Location: Georgia, USA
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RACETRAITOR
Joined: 24 Oct 2005
Location: Seoul, South Korea
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| Posted: Sun Aug 19, 2007 6:19 pm Post subject: |
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If you've never seen it before, read the Freakiest Waygook Thread. From start to finish. It's riveting.
The worst ones I met were the guy who got drunk and became bisexual, and made sexual advances to every single one of my (mostly Korean) friends sitting around a large table, male and female. You can find it in there. The other one was the guy who claimed to be a millionaire who wanted my female friend to dominate him, and then things got creepier. That's page 17.
http://forums.eslcafe.com/korea/viewtopic.php?t=316 |
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VirginIslander
Joined: 24 May 2006
Location: Busan
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| Posted: Sun Aug 19, 2007 6:43 pm Post subject: |
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My favorite T-Shirt regarding expats in the Caribbean.
A Sunny Place For Shady People.
Who has the Irish wit to come up with something similar for Korea? |
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