thanks to a post on Dave's ESL.
1) You're 12-years old and you don't go home until 10 pm.
2) And yet when you're unmarried at 25, you have to be home by ten.
4) You stare like a blinded deer in headlights at anyone different.
5) You attempt to go into the subway or elevator before the people get out.
6) If you ain't chewing and slurping your food at a loud volume then you obviously ain't enjoying it.
7) You "slightly disregard" traffic rules. Like stopping at crosswalks for those pesky pedestrians.
9) You think having 4 seasons is really special.
10) You describe any girl over 110 pounds as "fat."
12) You suddenly want to go to Prague or Bali because you saw them on a Korean drama.
13) You drive out of a blind alley at 60 km/h.
14) you're an "expert" at making ramyen noodles.
15) You try the doorknob instead of ringing the doorbell or knocking first.
17) You answer the phone with a loud warbling Wieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee????????
18 ) Your favorite teacher is the one that beats you the hardest.
23) You jump out of the shower at the local gym and stand naked in front of the mirror blow drying your family jewels. (oh yes!! my first time at the gym was um, interesting)
24) You grab the communal toothbrush at the gym and take it into the shower with you!
33) You look at thin blonde women and assume they are Russian hookers.
34) You open all of your windows in the middle of winter and crank up the heat.
35) You're standing in the shower at the Sauna and offer to scrub a total stranger's back.
36) You don't think it's at all weird to share a hot tub butt naked with a grandfather and his two grandsons.
44) You put sweet potato on pizza.
51) You proudly adorn your new business with a sign that reads: "SINCE 2005"
52) You close the business two years later after realizing there were already ten nearly identical businesses on the same block.
56) You ask the foreigner next to you if he can use chopsticks, while he is eating with chopsticks.
64) No one in your country has AIDS, but "kimchi" can cure it.
67) Your students try to convince you that Catholics are NOT Christians.
68 ) Your students tell you that they are devout Catholics but don't know who the Pope is.
69) You order pizza and it comes with corn and mayonnaise as well as a side serve of pickles to put on top.
82) Low cut, v-neck, floral print, pink t-shirt, shiny jeans, and Paris Hilton-esque sunglasses are perfectly acceptable items for a heterosexual man to wear for a night on the prowl.
and..... wait for it......
184) As a loving mother, you believe 13 is the perfect age to have your son circumcised and send him to school the next day.
2 comments:
Very weird!
Although, imagine what a Korean would write abut a kiwi.....
1) people think it's perfectly acceptable to wear crocs in public and make it a law for male teachers to wear socks and sandals in summer....& then mock them for it
2)We have amazingly talented athletes in many fields, support them loyally, but if they dare to say they think they did something well... we boo them harshly
3) Worse than staring at foreigners, we tell the "chinks" to go home or we bash them till they die (see scots girl in taupo a few days ago)
Not to mention our strange desire to put watties tomato sauce on everything & deep fry choc bars and ice cream - Weird ;o)
Not that I'm not fiercely proud to be a kiwi but we have many faults too
Liss XX
oh i know, it wasn't meant as a 'things wrong with Korea" just a "fascinating snippets of Korean life"
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