Holy ish, I am absolutely going to destroy in korea.

OK, sorry for the lack of a proper intro, I thought I'd just jump right in.

This has pretty much been my no. 1 question in gathering info/intel on s. korea: how attractive are korean women????

It's not that difficult to gain a reasonably clear, even detailed picture of what life in s. korea is like, but it hasn't been very clear what the top tier of pretty girls in s. korea looks like.

I'm an american korean, but have spent astonishingly little time with koreans (aside from family of course). I even lived in los angeles, but my lack of korean lang. skills and probably a lack of interest at the time, worked against me and kept me out of ktown and general korean social circles.

I'm really glad I found this thread. I'd been watching youtube videos on expats in korea, primarily english teachers. These people are identifiable as their faces are shown obviously, so I think it tends to steer evaluations in a far more positive and 'polite' direction than what's possible here.

I've been plowing through as much of this epic thread as possible and have found probably a half dozen 'gold mine' quality posts which have been invaluable, including the one I'm replying to.

Gentlemen, please, if you have actual pictures of actual korean girls, feel free to post them. All I have to go on are kpop m/v's and a few random shots of korean girls in the backgrounds of expat's life in korea musings.

Raise a glass, gentlemen!

I will add that one of the 'barriers' to entry into the koreanamerican/ktown social scene and dating for me was that in addition to language, I probably in retrospect, found the materialistic element to be offputting.

I was going to school full time and working half time. Not really in a position to be driving a new E class mercedes like the rich korean kids spending the hard earned money of their liquor store owning parents.

Korean culture is far from perfect. Of course, this is a matter of perspective, but even AmericanKoreans can find the "korean scene" either in s korea or the US to be strangely impenetrable, either due to language and/or beliefs and/or income.

http://www.reddit.com/r/koreangirls

you'll enjoy that thread

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Nice find syous.

I am certain that I will enjoy living in s korea.

What are y'all's impressions of american or even european expat girls living in s korea?

I see a bunch of pudgy white and black american girls complaining about the dating scene in s. korea in their youtube vlogs.

Please tell me there are some hot expat girls in s korea.

I'm about 3/5 of the way through this thread, skipping around randomly.

Here are some of the major themes I've seen so far:

1. the mutual, overlapping and virulent xenophobia is CRAZY. A few black guys and white guys are just going nuts with their hatred. Pages and pages by one guy ranting about how badly he was treated as a black guy. Multiple white guys calling korean women whores or worse. Korean Am guys calling for a modicum of restraint and respect. And not gettin' it.

2. a strong sense of sexual entitlement among the american guys, especially the white guys.

There are two possibilities here:

1. americans are far more racist than they would ever let on in public life

2. the most sexually frustrated and socially inept are posting most frequently and letting loose in a more or less anonymous internet setting.

I can't prove this obviously but I tend to suspect it's the latter. Poker players are grinding away many hours alone online and not getting much social interaction.

For anyone who encounters this thread at random and has a chance to read through it, I wouldn't necessarily take it as evidence of mainstream views of what current generations of americans are thinking.

Meh. It's all dependent on individual experience. If one deigns to only look for women in clubs and bars then what type of woman does he think he's going to meet? If he doesn't learn the language can he expect to be a part of the culture?

Xenophobia in Korea is real. It exists. I'm not trying to say otherwise. But people are people. And there will inevitably be women out there who will jive with who you are no matter your life choices if you're respectful and fun to be with.

Negative people take away from life. They want to bring you down to wallow in misery together. Positive people leave more behind. Their lives are enjoyable and so is yours for spending time with them. This is not native to American culture. It exists here in Korea too.

Also, anybody with the ability to get it up for a 6 looking just to have sex should have NO issues in Seoul.

What kind of people do you want to give your time to? It's pretty much up to you. I'm interested in your continued experiences. I'm under the assumption that gyopos can have it pretty rough if they don't speak the language. So I'm curious.

Also, got some good news on an extension last week so I'll get to be here for at least another 2.5 years and possibly as long as 5. It was a very, very happy day.

I know this is an enormous topic in and of itself, but what are good resources for finding jobs in s. korea, aside from teaching english?

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As far as 'booking clubs' I may have been to one, or to a quasi-booking club in NYC. I went with a group of koreanam friends to a club in NYC's 'koreatown' district in times square.

We took an elevator upstairs, and were served a large-ish tray of fruit at some exorbitant price. It wasn't really a restaurant, since we were seated in a 'private' section, as were the other parties.

Oddly, some random korean chick or two joined us at our table later. I was confused, since I had no idea who in the heck they were. I pretty much ignored them first since they didn't speak any english, and also because they looked busted as hell.

They eventually left, staying longer than we desired as we had no interest. My friend was like: "who were those horse faced chicks?" Perhaps we didn't give the hostess a tip, or a tip large enough?

To this day, I'm still befuddled as to what type of establishment we were at.

So, as you can tell, korean and korean american culture for me, has been an experience of that of an outsider peering in wondering what in the holy heck was going on.

The main sense I get is that "they" (hanguk sadam) are very very closely knit and are quite well versed in keeping 'foreigners', even korean blood koreanam out, if you don't know the 'rules.'

SK is mad fun don't stress too much about things. with regard to american/canadian girls, there are lots of single ones and plenty are decent looking. my own personal experience was it was easier to ship white chicks than locals but that doesn't mean anything.

i will say that most of the guys who go to SK lose weight while females gain a bunch there.

i'm going back to seoul this summer for a class then 4week internship. very excited but have a few questions:

1) does anyone have any hotel recommendations for a place i can stay for a week until i find a sublet? i would like to stay near coex (though as far out as jamsil would be fine). or somewhere near walker if 2/5 runs regularly there now. budget is like 60-140/night. i saw a bunch of places on agoda but a lot of them seemed to be skeezy love motels or goshiwons.

2) what is the min/max buyin at 7luck for 2/5? and what's normal buyin range? if a lot people shortstack then i will probably stay at hamilton instead...

3) can anyone swap me KRW for skrill or netteller euros? looking to do 3-4k eur but can do smaller.

I def think this is true since expat women get left out a bit. Expat men go for Korean women and Korean guys seem intimated by them but once they figure them out it's a gold mine.

djz

airbnb is pretty damn good in korea

https://www.airbnb.com/rooms/736269

I stayed here, 1 block away from gangnam station, all his units are a bit diff but same structure and same building, fair price

I'm looking forward to seeing some fine korean women.

Here in the bay area, asian women look like some busted up old used cars. Bad skin, bad teeth, often overweight, don't dress well, and worst of all, terrible attitudes. The FOB Chinese women are the worst.

It's impossible that I'll encounter a worse situation.

What's the best way to get hooked up with the korean-american community in korea?

Obviously, I'll be hanging with native koreans and probably a few euro-american expats as well (very, very selectively). It'd be nice to hang with some euro expats as well.

Not really looking to hang out with a ton of euro-americans although I suppose this is inevitable as my korean language skills as of present are pretty modest.

2/5 is 300 min up to 3 mill
5/10 is 500 +

does anyone here have any experience with net teller being used in south Korea?

gson: have you tried grindr? lots of guys use that to make euro/korean/american friends. my friend told me it's popular in korea too and he meets lots of people from it. so i think that's your best bet.

thanks l-train!

7Luck COEX BBJ is 60 million KW
Walker Hill's was 24 mil last Tuesday

Yeah, I have the card but I'm in a small town so using it at atm has been a problem. Works great and his accepted most places. Skrill to KEB works great too. Cheers.

I know I've had all sorts of methods on how to meet people through various mediums but I maintain that the best way is just to go out and do things and talk to people. I know it sounds vague but it really is the best way.

Hi, can someone tell me if I can do direct deposits and withdrawals on PokerStars using a korean check card from Woori Bank or do I have to use Skrill? I tried using Skrill, but it wouldn't verify my american check card and don't know how else I can deposit/withdraw.

Never used Woori bank but I have used KEB and yes. You have to go skrill to KEB.

Is this booth still there? I want to rent whatever the newest samsung/bad ass phone there is to try out it...but if that's too complicated, anyone know if they have nano sims for the iphone?

seriously? for straight ppl?