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Originally Posted by Rekrul
my sample size is obv somewhat small
but man...even the ones that aren't 'bad people' the way they talk is so mother ****ing annoying
its like yo mr. english teacher, i don't care how hard you banged some girl last night bro aite? just shut the **** up and let me drink my jack n coke aite?
and yea when i associate with them they are usually drunk lol
Well, that last sentence probably taints the sample
For ESL teachers, drinking is as much a part of the foreigner experience in Korea as it is in Korean culture, perhaps more so. So if you're running into a foreigner at a bar, chances are that he/she is either drunk or on his/her way to it. A social outing among ESL teachers that does not involve copious amounts of alcohol is an extreme rarity. The difference between the two drinking circles is that you can reject drinking in a group of foreigners without pissing anybody off. Meanwhile, your only excuse to not drink among a group of Koreans is that you're driving. Since I don't own a car, I do not have an excuse to abstain.
If there's anything I like about Masan, it's that the foreigners here don't have that in-your-face mentality that you are talking about. Since it's a very small community and the selection of Korean girls around my age group is low, there's less of that obnoxious air that pisses people off. I've seen exactly what you're talking about and hate it as much as you do. When I was drinking in Busan (Haeundae), there was group of English teachers (I assume they were given their physical appearance) that was so obnoxious and annoying that I left the bar early, caught a bus at the terminal and went home nice and sober.