Are You Ready to Get Out of Korea?
This is the funniest thing I have read in a long, long time. It is worth taking to measure how ready you are to get out of here. You might want to empty your bladder first. Here is just one questions, not the funniest, but just one:
18. Koreans quickly get riled if one says in English "Seoul University" (as opposed to Seoul National University), but they get puzzled if you transliterate it and say "Gungnip Seoul Daehakgyo" in Korean. This makes you:
Scold foreigners with the same jingoistic and xenophobic phrases your students teach you in ESL class.
a. Weep with anguish because the university can't truly be "national" until the peninsula is reunified!
b. Wonder what a "national" university is in the first place.
c. Realize that Koreans are uncomfortable with foreigners who can decipher the secret language of the peninsula
d. Chalk this up as yet another "unique situation"
Smile, inhale deeply, and remind yourself that it is all playskool in the end
18. Koreans quickly get riled if one says in English "Seoul University" (as opposed to Seoul National University), but they get puzzled if you transliterate it and say "Gungnip Seoul Daehakgyo" in Korean. This makes you:
Scold foreigners with the same jingoistic and xenophobic phrases your students teach you in ESL class.
a. Weep with anguish because the university can't truly be "national" until the peninsula is reunified!
b. Wonder what a "national" university is in the first place.
c. Realize that Koreans are uncomfortable with foreigners who can decipher the secret language of the peninsula
d. Chalk this up as yet another "unique situation"
Smile, inhale deeply, and remind yourself that it is all playskool in the end
posted by Subman at
9:38 AM
3 Comments:
This was pretty funny. I guess you would just have to have lived in Korean long enough to think it funny. But I still don't have a girlfriend who urinates on bushes. So that part kind of confused me.
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Anonymous, at 5:58 PM
that was indeed the funniest thing i've ever read about korea. although i never experienced the girlfriend/bushes scenario either, most of those questions were hilarious.
thanks for the link.
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Anonymous, at 6:10 AM
I can't say my significant other has ever urinated on bushes. Now little kids in the street drain, and drunk men anywhere, is another thing. Maybe the author's girlfriend had a problem that he assumed was a norm in society. He must be embarrassed now.
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Subman, at 1:58 AM
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