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I thought that the old thread was just closed because we pushed shitposting to new, unprecedented limits. Instead we get a nicely updated OP! Thank u based bugblatter.
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^^^ Agreed. IMO chat has been made obsolete by the google map that tells me where to eat. Yoo Byung-eun is dead, too, so that's it! We're all done, everything's cleaned up now. The price has been paid. No need to ever speak about it again, or change any behavior that could impact a Chaebol bottom line. If you and all of your friends are killed because someone wants to milk another three bucks per ton out of a ferry haul a gaggle of pretend army men will take Our Lord and Savior Park Chung-hee's rotting dick out of their mouths long just enough to stuff pizza in there in order to harass your mourning parents. If I were one of my students I'd have probably walked off some apartment roof some time ago. But hey! How about that Gangnam style vid, huh? You guys remember that, right? Pretty funny stuff.
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Apr 29, 2015 09:14
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Man oh man Ashley Madison dug right in as soon as adultery was decriminalized. I'm seeing those ads everywhere now.
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May 14, 2015 09:37
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This'll never happen but I hope this MERS thing encourages hospital reform. I've visited friends in the hospital a few times before and they're about as secure as a sieve. No check ins, no security (I assume until way late?), you can just come in, hang out, bring outside food and drink, bring kids and old people, nobody cares. Now everyone is shocked that hospitals are turning into viral hothouses. As long as I'm wishing for things, I hope I get a few break days out of it, too.
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Jun 5, 2015 01:47
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Grand Fromage posted:Well, rounding up and killing everyone infected would do the trick. I think a Logan's Run type culling would be way more effective. Everyone left will be able to deal with the disease like reasonable adults.
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EvilElmo posted:https://www.reddit.com/r/nosleep/comments/391i66/i_live_in_the_city_of_mers_patient_zero_and_the/ its real bro ama Anyway thanks to MERS, the scourge of men, I had the opportunity to spend some time in a real life Korean office. I am 100% convinced that it's a cargo cult enterprise where sad men in white Y-shirts hand copy excel printouts into new excel files, print them, then hand the printouts to each other, and repeat the process over and over.
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Jun 9, 2015 03:21
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theravenpope posted:So the gift of MERS has pressed my school to do a forced, partially paid vacation for the next 5 weeks. 5 weeks! 
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Jun 10, 2015 10:19
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If you are a single dude and have any excuse to spend time at that university you should do it. e: I am just saying that before I met my wife I went to some parties there and they were very good parties to go to for me, a single dude. Pentecoastal Elites fucked around with this message at 03:43 on Jun 11, 2015 |
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Jun 11, 2015 03:09
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also consider: pornography
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Jul 3, 2015 01:12
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It was fun while it lasted! Now I get to run down the clock until I can go back home and try to get a real people job.
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Jul 9, 2015 14:31
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Yeah holy poo poo don't work epik with a doctorate. Start finding and emailing/skyping/whatever universities here. Snag an airbnb and go in person if you can, too. You're an easy sell to places that will actually literally unrelated bachelor holders in crunch time for want of qualified applicants. Then work high end corporate camps/retreats when you're on break and hit 80k without breaking a sweat.
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Jul 16, 2015 07:47
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If you're not cold emailing your resume Korean uni campuses, you should be. It sounds stupid but it will get you hired.
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Jul 17, 2015 06:47
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Love Stole the Day posted:You might as well fold it up into a paper airplane and throw it out the window I know three people that got uni jobs. One M.ed, one unrelated master's, and one bachelors in education. Two called and the guy with the bachelors just walked in one day and asked to talk to hr. University positions are one place where there is a serious lack of applicants with the right (or any) credentials and cold calls from drs will work. Sorry if that doesn't sit right with you, but those jobs are his for the taking.
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Jul 17, 2015 16:21
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Today is Liberation (from Japanese colonial rule) Day. Shame it had to fall on a Saturday, tho 
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Aug 15, 2015 07:04
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no no no but you guys they said they REALLY REALLY MEAN IT this time! Seriously! Get worried! - every western news outlet
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Aug 21, 2015 06:28
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DontAskKant posted:I think in moving out I'll just have to take the 100k fines everyday. I have no idea how I screwed up trash collection. The text just says it's wrong with no explanation why. This is going to be a very expensive move. This is why I know everything will be fine w/r/t North Korea. If you were like "Getting the new visa was painless! Easiest move of my life!", I'd know the bombs were about to drop.
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Aug 22, 2015 02:38
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terre packet posted:Can anyone recommend an English-friendly aesthetician in Seoul? 
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Sep 11, 2015 10:37
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To anyone who has finished the spousal immigration process (IR-1/CR-1 Korea -> US): We just got our Packet 3, and scheduled the health check. Should we schedule the interview now, or wait until we have the medical report in-hand?
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Gildiss posted:I would schedule it now as there will be quite some time before there is an open interview timeslot. We booked in early Sept and the soonest opening was Nov 22. We skirted that by clicking the Priority Status or whatever and booking for Oct 5 then explaining that we had a time constraint when they contacted and said Hey you arent priority you can't do that! and they gave us an Oct 8 date. Probably should have just asked you directly. We ended up calling the hospital and they said we wouldn't get the results for a week anyway, so now we're scheduled for an interview late next month.
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Oct 29, 2015 10:06
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Check around your area if there's a cabinet maker/furniture maker/woodshop and pay them to crate your furniture. You'll have to get it crated anyway, and having a shipper do it you'll almost always pay a huge markup. Start looking for and getting quotes from international movers now, as they're you're best bet and will usually move it door-to-door (straight shippers will only usually send it to the destination port and you'll have to arrange something on the US end). Expect to pay, though. Shipping furniture is not cheap, even on the slow boat.
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Dec 15, 2015 14:24
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It also has some awesome statues
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Feb 3, 2016 06:42
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EvilElmo posted:Dicks? Already shipped my external HDDs so suffer an instagram:  but yeah right next to that statue is a little shop that sells all manner of ceramic dick sculptures, from dicks shaped like dudes to dudes with giant boners to giant veiny cocks that grow flowers from the urethra. Welcome to
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Feb 3, 2016 08:12
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I'm 100% at a loss to offer up any Korean fine dining. Even Jungsik is basically just Korean-inspired postmodern than Korean. Maybe Jihwaja or Gungyeon? Royal court cuisine is the only thing I can think of, but even those places aren't exactly black tie dining experiences (but not really t-shirt and jeans either).
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 I'm in the same boat. Thankfully I sent a lot back already (in the form of student loan payments...) but my pension is coming in at around 80 cents per thousand won. In my estimation there's nothing going on in the world now or in the near future that looks like anything other than bad times for Sparkling Corea. Domestic consumption is down, exports are down, international money is getting the gently caress out of Asia, oil prices keep falling, and the dollar keeps getting stronger. I don't think we'd see 2014 rates for years, maybe a decade. I think maybe you could gamble on a bounce back to somewhere near 0.84, but I think that Korea will see a pretty consistent decline to $0.70/1000₩ or lower within the next year or so. I hope I'm wrong, though. disclaimer: I am not an economist e: I should make clear that I have already sent everything home because I don't actually want to wager my pension on a lucky short-term bounce Pentecoastal Elites fucked around with this message at 12:42 on Feb 27, 2016 |
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Feb 27, 2016 11:28
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Whizbang posted:You need to go to a bike repair shop, not a bike shop. I don't know why these are different things either. notably different from Bike Repair Shop, a poorly named men's clothier you can find in department stores
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Jun 8, 2016 02:16
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sorry for this here extremely controversial opinion but I think it is good
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Bugblatter posted:I haven't seen the jorts? I'm even in a crowded downtown area looking out from a second floor cafe window and nothing. Is it just the hottest new trend in Seoul that hasn't spread south? What, you want to get tan? Like a peasant?
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Aug 25, 2017 05:54
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just by the by you'd have to be taking an absolute shitload of poorly made CBD to pull a positive on a test for weed.
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Aug 21, 2018 04:43
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nervana posted:So who's watching Crazy Rich Asians? its very bad, op
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Aug 22, 2018 21:43
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AmbientParadox posted:Isn’t it just a romcom but everyone is Chinese? boring as gently caress 121 minutes of no hold barred wealth worship the mom is such a racist caricature that they might have well just spliced in the south park city wok guy etc
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Aug 28, 2018 19:39
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I'm back visiting the inlaws and I'm here to dispatch an important public service announcement: the brown sugar boba tea/milk/coffee that's everywhere now sucks so bad I hate it
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yeah, god drat. it's hard to overstate how much this specific thread changed my life (for the better!). Thank you goons. I love you all, even if this isn't the end.
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punk rebel ecks posted:Personally I'm leaning not wanting to move there. As crazy as America is, I like it here, plus I'm not white in the US so I'm not sure how well I'll fit in there. And I don't know I'm worried that I may be treated stranger over there. Based on the experiences of my nonwhite friends, people (especially outside of Seoul) can get really weirdly fascinated by your skin, or hair, or just you in general as kind of an unusual novelty, which I imagine can feel pretty dehumanizing or at least really off putting, but you won't have to deal with the overt racial hatred or white supremacist violence that you have in America. The cops in Korea aren't going to kill you for running a stop sign while black. If you have kids, though, I hear school can be pretty brutal unless you're sending them to one of those foreigner academies. I also hear that's starting to get better, however. FWIW I miss Korea dearly and have been trying to find a way where I can move back and work remotely for an American company.
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FWIW I find that generally my Korean friends in my age cohort (30s) have a better grasp on their history than my American friends. I think a lot of this is probably due to Koreans having a shared national/cultural identity which is something that Americans don't really have IMO. Every American knows who eg. George Washington is, but the average person on the street probably doesn't have an emotional connection or cultural pride in him like a Korean person might have with Sejong or Yi Sun-Shin or whoever, and I think that really drives a lot of the common historical knowledge. Maybe that's changing for a certain class of Americans with the popularity of stuff like Hamilton but I don't think it really infiltrates all class strata like it does in Korea. Also the events that fundamentally shaped the peninsula into what it is today happened in living memory, so I think even the more recent history and political landscape isn't nearly as academic (and ignorable) as it is in America.
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I'm a little young for that. My wife, who is a few months older than me, was born in the leadup to the June struggle. Her and my friends' parents, aunts, uncles, though, yeah absolutely -- they lived through a time I think that no one born and raised in America can really totally comprehend (I certainly can't). If you're my father-in-law's age you were born shortly after the nation fractured, lived through seven distinct governments, including a military junta, multiple political uprisings, two coups, and you watched Seoul go from a small capital of a forgettable east Asian country to one of the most renowned major metropolises in the world. Prior to the 1970s-80s Korea wasn't particularly economically strong, so when that took off you watched absolutely everything around you totally transform in just a few years as tons and tons of money and access to technology started pouring in. It's even more wild for someone a little older, like her grandparents, who (being from North Korea) lived through what must have felt like the loving apocalypse. e: grammar Pentecoastal Elites fucked around with this message at 18:15 on Oct 14, 2020 |
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I think Hangeul is cool  and far better than English's shambolic, schizophrenic frankenstein's monster
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E_P posted:The only vowel my wife knows is "야!" it really do be like that sometimes
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is it this steamed tteok kind of thing? https://www.yumofchina.com/korean-white-steamed-rice-cakes/ that's what we had at my nephew's 100 day, but there were a lot of different cakes and tteok dishes there so I don't know if that was the "real" one or what
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different??? I thought they were all just chinese over there??????
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