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Funny things about Korea- Not for innocent eyes

SOUTH KOREA | Tuesday, 11 March 2008 | Views [1727] | Comments [2]

So funny Loving you- Give the world the best you have and you'll get kicked in the teeth

 Theres one thing that makes me laugh all the time in Korea and that is the lack of good english translation on T-shirts, company slogans etc or the pure ignorance of what the words on their clothes actually mean. Here is a selection of tshirt slogans me and my friends have seen on Korean kids and general public-

• A middle school girls was wearing a shirt with "Grope" across the chest in cursive.

• cartoon of a little girl sitting in front of a bowl with an arm holding a gun pointed at her:  “eat more rice bitch!”

• And yesterday, a t-shirt advertising "Monkey Wax - use it to wax your monkey"... could be taken either way I guess....

• My friend saw a GUY cleaning up the beach wearing a t-shirt that said "It's not PMS...I'm just a bitch."
  And I also saw a pregnant woman wearing "I (heart) dick
  A classic from the other day -->" Spelling Dee Champoin"  duh!!!

• classic - I've seen "head down, ass up, thats the way I like to fuck" on a kindergarten student

• "I fuck on the first date" -from a young girl paying her bills in bank

• Another favorite from the subway - "I offered her my honor. She honored my offer. And all night long it was honor and offer."
  -"I love my hooker" inside a big red heart, on possibly my youngest and cutest and most naive student

• A pregnant woman wearing a T-shirt that said, "I'd trade my wife for a beer".

Signs

• I saw a sign (I think near Hongdae) for "Dr. Kill's Internal Medicine Clinic."
  My guess is that he doesn't have too many patients who speak english...

• The safety warning on a pair of scissors I bought at a supermarket: "Don't stick scissors into children." Ohhhh Why do they have to ruin all my fun!

You get Kids and adults comin up to you in the street giggling and shyly saying Hello all the time, and of course you say hello back they get all excited and have a look of accomplishment on their face. Like their thinking Wow I just spoke English  and then they usually walk off giggling with their friends or high as a kite- strange I know but a thing you really get used to over here. You see Korea is not as racially intergrated at other western parts of the world and whenever a Korean spots a white or black person they think Wow OK they must speak English because the bulk of foreign people over here are either English teachers, RAF or the American Army.  Your pretty much treated like celebrities, kids in school as soon are they see me are like “Hi Julia Teacher” (the teacher part is a sign of respect they always say it, makes me giggle) and run up to me all fighting for my attention.  In my local supermarket theres a Korean guy who works on the meat counter and he always says “Can I help you I am good at English I can find things!” Hes soo sweet like my personal shopper lol. Does make me feel a wee bit uncomfortable though haha. When you go to Galbi Resteraunts which is the kind of BBQ beef place, the Koreans are expected to serve themselves use the scissors to cut the meat, and put it on the grill and turn it over with the tongues but most of the time the resteraunt staff insist on turning  the meat for us and cutting it up. At first I thought “Oh right, they think cuz we’re white we’re also dumbasses” but actually I realise its because they want to impress us and stupidly think all English speaking people are amazing haha. Also in most restraunts we are offered a fork instead of using chopsticks but I love me chopsticks to eat with kinda feel a bit sick when I don’t eat with them think its sumthin to do with the speed I eat but also its been scientifically researched that its good for you to eat with chopsticks that its good for your brain and body to eat with them because you have to really coordinate yourself and concentrate on eating instead of the usual western shoveling food into ur chops whilst watching tv and not really tasting your food or ending up over eating because you eat too fast.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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