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Originally Posted by Kojika
Agree 100% with that post, and yeah the fan death is hilarious. One of my friend's parent was worrying for me cause she heard the fan when I was sleeping !
Though, none of my friends believe this, only 40+
I got sick almost immediately upon coming to South Korea for my teaching job. I had no idea what it was at the time. All I know is that I had a one week dizzy spell in my first month that kept me in the hospital. The next day, one of my colleagues, a Korean-English teacher in her mid/late 20's walked into my apartment to drop off a message for me. Upon seeing my apartment, she scolded me for having the fan on at night and blamed that for my sickness. She told me that if I did that any longer that I would "explode".
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Originally Posted by madison79
I was giving examples of things that people have said to me over my course of time in Korea. Real life examples of some very crazy things. These things came from adults not kids.
The whole Kimchi stops swine flu was from a tv program with a Korean doctor telling Koreans they are basically superhuman.
Yes, I was in SK during the swine flu "crisis" and I heard a couple of people say this. However, your "superhuman" comment is using hyperbole to take another shot at Koreans. If Koreans honestly thought they were superhuman (lol), then they wouldn't have checked every student's temperature who walked into my school and send them to the hospital if their temperature was above normal. After all, they eat kimchi and are thus superhuman.
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Originally Posted by madison79
I was wrong to say that all Koreans are racist but racism in Korea is very subtle so much so that it can be missed.
I asked my Korean teacher if her parents would let her marry a non-Korean and she said "her dad would never speak to her again."
Common thing I see is when you walk into a store and clerk doesn't greet you but a Korean person walks in and they get greeted. Even after you've spoke Korean to the clerk. First few times I just thought the clerk was rude but after he greeted every other
One of my best Korean friends was a Family Mart clerk. The first time he saw me, he was shy and afraid to say anything. It wasn't hatred, just shyness. Shortly afterward, I saw him studying English and he greeted me in English. I gave him some help while he was learning the language and by the end of my contract, he learned the language well enough to have full conversations with me while almost never stumbling. If I was jaded, I would have pawned him off as a racist and would never have become his friend.
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A community that has raised a 50K for different charities but you rarely hear about the good things that we do.
Yes, bash the locals but champion your contributions.
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SuperBob: I don't feel superior to Korean people in any way.
That's what you're showing all of us.
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I just don't give into this whole "Please understand my culture" excuse that gets used to explain things that just shouldn't be allowed or tolerated
Probably the only complete thought in this post that I agree with.
Last edited by SuperUberBob; 10-05-2012 at 11:36 PM.