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One hour of watching American TV and I want to go back to Korea. They literally made up a marine biologist and several events, one of which where people supposedly died, and are presenting it as fact. This is during Shark Week, the one week a year where Discovery Chanel is arguably relevant. USA get out.
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You say as if Korean TV is the pinnacle of quality entertainment.
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Cameron posted:You say as if Korean TV is the pinnacle of quality entertainment. I don't watch Korean t- Ooooooooohhh... Also I keep looking for light-switches on the outsides of bathrooms and getting confused, and I'm going to have to remind myself to tip out loud at restaurants. I almost stiffed a guy today by accident, was actually halfway out the door before I caught my mistake.
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Aug 5, 2013 04:50
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Toussaint Louverture posted:Also I keep looking for light-switches on the outsides of bathrooms  Do you find yourself bowing to older people a little? My friends called me out on that when I was home. I don't mean Japanese-style bowing, I just mean prostrating a bit.
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Aug 5, 2013 05:36
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I had to consciously remind myself to not bow when I walked into shops and small restaurants. But yeah the discover and history channels turned into godawful bullshit a year or two after TLC did. But the last season of Always Sunny was pretty great so USA TV still reigns supreme.
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Aug 5, 2013 05:43
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After living in Japan for a while, I started bowing during phone calls I'm guessing I'll start doing that again in Korea.
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Aug 5, 2013 07:14
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http://www.koreabang.com/2013/stories/advice-on-dating-korean-men-attracts-anger-support.html
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bringmyfishback posted:After living in Japan for a while, I started bowing during phone calls Ain't bowing if you're not bending 90 degrees.
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Camp diary, day 6: My spirit remains strong. AmbientParadox fucked around with this message at 10:32 on Aug 5, 2013 |
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AP, your last name wouldn't happen to be Denisovich, would it?
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 e: I'm dumb THE LUMMOX fucked around with this message at 10:02 on Aug 5, 2013 |
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THE LUMMOX posted:Goondolances to people that married Koreans and built meaningful lives here, you didn't QUITE achieve enough. I don't know how I go from day to day with my literally genius level students in tiny classes, boss who treats me with respect and bends over backward to make use of my talents at work, and awesome in-laws who treat me like their own child. I could be back in America struggling to find work. TreFitty posted:http://www.koreabang.com/2013/stories/advice-on-dating-korean-men-attracts-anger-support.html Wow, I expected far more vitriol and woman-hating in the comments. Also, I was out at 3PM and after a brief rain, this horrible wave of intense humidity just descended on me. It was like Houston, just god drat. I was halfway expecting some Day After Tomorrow poo poo like having Global Warming chase me down the street. The Bible fucked around with this message at 13:19 on Aug 5, 2013 |
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Aug 5, 2013 13:01
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The Bible posted:Wow, I expected far more vitriol and woman-hating in the comments. Well, the English comments were pretty terrible.
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Aug 5, 2013 13:29
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oh poo poo I totally missed the previous savory news item M-R-A til I D-I-E /dies
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Onion Knight posted:oh poo poo I totally missed the previous savory news item Ugh, regardless of nationality, MRA guys are just the loving worst. Glad to see that most Koreans seem to hate them just as much as we do in the west. Then again, this is the internet: quote:Seong Jae-ki’s method was wrong but women should stop playing the victim and the Ministry of Women should be abolished. Hundreds of groups for women vs. one group for men. Does that make sense? Discrimination against me is bad but discrimination against others is good discrimination? The Bible fucked around with this message at 16:21 on Aug 5, 2013 |
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The Bible posted:Ugh, regardless of language, MRA guys are just the loving worst. Glad to see that most Koreans seem to hate them just as much as we do in the west. I refuse the believe the comments are indicative of the majority opinion, at least. Why aren't you in the Kakao group chat? We have many high quality discussions about this issue and others.
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THE LUMMOX posted:Why aren't you in the Kakao group chat? We have many high quality discussions about this issue and others. I don't know. How do I get in?
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The Bible posted:Then again, this is the internet: Story time: Dude, it is men who need the menstrual leave. When I worked in England I was in an office stacked with women, and they all synced up. 14 - 17 was a hellish nightmare. So me and the one other man in the office started taking leave on those days, some bullshit like "I need to go to a concert", "Some nerd tournament I need to watch", or "cough cough, gonna be sick". It was about month 4 before my junior coworker realized what we were doing. Boss lady couldn't write me up on using approved PTO, but she did order young girl to smack the poo poo outta me for that poo poo. Still laugh about it to this day. Anyways, reintegration chat: The crack addict cashier at my 7/11 asked me why I handed him money with two hands... I was at a loss about how to explain that.
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That's one of those mannerisms people told me about but I don't think I have ever seen a Korean do, at least not at the convenience store.
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I dunno why, but I tend to see it around the bases more than in Seoul. Either they're playing to the stereotype or it's just a 'This dumbass army guy is gonna drop the money all over the drat place if I don't slowly lower it into his grubby paws'.
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Because foreigners generally give the money with one hand, not two. And yes I have seen foreigners dropping and almost slamming the money on the table, so I'd be surprised too.
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The Bible posted:Wow, I expected far more vitriol and woman-hating in the comments.
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quote:Hello everyone. We are a couple in our mid-twenties. We’ve been dating for three years. My boyfriend had a crush on me for years before we began dating. He treated me well for the first two years of our relationship, but since then he has slowly and subtly changed. This has been happening since there were people and if you want an american version replace "k-dramas" with "john cusack movies" or "the twilight books" depending on how old you are and there you go. I guess it's been a slow news week for Koreabang or jay.h wanted to see nerds rail against ~korean culture~ again. Question though: I keep calling immigration for information about transferring my visa and they tell me that it can only be done after I've completed my previous contract (as in, after August 31st) whereas I thought the rule was two weeks out. Did something change or are they just trying to brush me off? I'd rather get everything set up before I take my vacation.
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nullscan posted:That's nothing, I married one and drug her back to Sparkling Corea. She thought she could escape to Hawaii! This is serious win. I can understand how people want to live elsewhere; that said, I love living here (though I loathe, abhor and despise the loving summer weather) and I would be a very surly lady if I had to leave.
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e; I'm being lazy and just googled my answer.
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No one is going to believe a single loving thing I say if I actually wrote up an update to all this poo poo so here's a picture that speaks for itself. http://i.imgur.com/525ZT8D.jpg I guess he's abusive but somehow doesnt notice/care if she disappears for a week and a half at a time but I don't give a gently caress. I did not know about any of this poo poo before and I am getting the gently caress out of this situation.
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Suicide threats are coming soon.
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ladron posted:I'm looking forward to where this is going. ladron posted:Suicide threats are coming soon. BrainDance posted:Like I said earlier I really do like her, shes just too much sometimes and I dont think we want the same things.
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BrainDance posted:No one is going to believe a single loving thing I say if I actually wrote up an update to all this poo poo so here's a picture that speaks for itself. http://i.imgur.com/525ZT8D.jpg Dude, I've been there. Was messing around with an older woman who was a regular at the non-Atown foreigner bar. She mentioned one time she had a daughter. I was all... if we are in this hotel room at like 1am, who's watching her. She was all "Oh um... my... brother. Yeah those are the word in english." This was nothing serious, just casual booty calls, so I didn't think much of it. Later on, I saw her at the bar with an older korean dude. I was like whatever and kept drinking. She saw me and texted me to 'be cool'. I was invited over and was introduced as her 'English Tutor'. Turns out ol dude was her husband. I played dumb and innocent harder than ever in my life. When that man bought me a beer and shook my hand, knowing that if he knew what I did he could murder me right then and there, that was the momement I truely felt alive. I stopped seeing her after that and she found another boy toy shortly after. So, yeah. GTFO and all that. You arn't the only one and I feel for ya. You'll notice a couple things make sense in that married context, a couple of things that raise even more questions. Also, don't meet the dude. Although, it would be cheaper than skydiving, and an unimaginable rush of fight or flight emotions.
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Picked up a Korean girl at the bar, went back to her place for fun times. Next morning she decides to order some food and I see a dependant military ID. "Oh, my husband is army officer but we're getting divorce " See her a year later and apparently she's worked stuff out as dude is with her. Not only dude's loving around.
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BrainDance posted:No one is going to believe a single loving thing I say if I actually wrote up an update to all this poo poo so here's a picture that speaks for itself. http://i.imgur.com/525ZT8D.jpg Put a ring on it.
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BrainDance posted:No one is going to believe a single loving thing I say if I actually wrote up an update to all this poo poo so here's a picture that speaks for itself. http://i.imgur.com/525ZT8D.jpg DIVE DIVE DIVE DIVE DIVE!!!!!
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KirbyKhan posted:So, yeah. GTFO and all that. You arn't the only one and I feel for ya. You'll notice a couple things make sense in that married context, a couple of things that raise even more questions. Also, don't meet the dude. Although, it would be cheaper than skydiving, and an unimaginable rush of fight or flight emotions. Yeah, whole lot poo poo adds up now. It wasn't just the shittiness of Korea she wanted me to save her from I guess. She always told me her apartment was too messy for me to come over and I was like "ok I get that more than anyone we'll just go to my place." I honestly don't care if people screw up their lives, whatever we're all adults. But this whole situation is one of those "I got married as a teenager out of wedlock" deals and so there's a 9 year old girl somehow with these crazy people. And shes all saying "oh she can live without me she'll be fine" and I feel like I gotta be the voice of reason, like, Christ don't abandon your daughter. I asked about that, if you have a daughter how are you hanging out with me constantly? She just said her daughter knows how to take care of herself... Also her daughter is just a big burden to her. the gently caress is wrong with some people?
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BrainDance posted:I asked about that, if you have a daughter how are you hanging out with me constantly? She just said her daughter knows how to take care of herself... Also her daughter is just a big burden to her. the gently caress is wrong with some people? Holy poo poo, at least my bag of crazy still loved her daughter. She just loved booze and foreign dick as well. Kept talking how the both of them would run away to New Zealand. Huh... I wonder if she made it .Anyways, yeah, I'm not even gonna make jokes like "Give her another baby, maybe second time's the charm" or some poo poo. That whole situations sounds hosed. Hope you get through it ok. EDIT: Clarification: Her and her daughter would run away to New Zealand, mostly so her daughter wouldn't have to suffer the korean ed system. KirbyKhan fucked around with this message at 05:41 on Aug 8, 2013 |
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Seriously why do so many Korean women abandon their drat kids? It's hosed up. Men do it too, but I've seen way more instances of moms doing it.
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I think the father is the one who sort of gets the kids by default instead of the mother like in America. So it sort of just ends up that way. I'm gonna put a disclaimer here about my past couple posts before anyone jumps on me. I'm not asking you guys for advice necessarily, I'm just venting and, I dunno seemed like we weren't having much conversation so it's something to talk about. I'm not talking to any of my irl friends about this one, because even I don't feel like telling people I know "hey guys, guess what? Turns out I'm a home wrecker now."
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