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Post by JustinK. on Nov 12, 2012 2:59:10 GMT -5
XD the first time i came to korea, i saw many people lining up to buy something. I was curious so i leaned forward. This foul smell overwhelmed me, >< it was awful. It turned out that people were lining up to buy cooked silkworm cocoon. o.O
People ate weird stuffs in Taiwan, but silkworm cocoon was the first time.
>< many of my Korean cousins loved it o.O
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Post by mirim002 on Nov 16, 2012 8:05:04 GMT -5
i also agree with lin about long nails. Some of my friends have long fingernails or has at least one long one. Even my mother has that. I never knew why...
there are many things that shocked me...such as boys wearing skinny jeans...that looked weird at first...also not eating before elders...also once i called my cousin hyung because i thought that was how they were called but it was oppa and my other male cousin called him hyung...so i thought it was ok to call him hyung... so i was kind of shocked...
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Post by gb1708 on Nov 18, 2012 0:11:46 GMT -5
I was shocked about respect the elder. In my country, you have to respect the elder, even one year order than you. But in here, the kids talk like lacking of respect and in english, there are few respectful words such as please,...
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Post by james on Nov 18, 2012 6:40:45 GMT -5
I also found some another weird culture thing in korea. Its about aging system. You know how americans get one year older when their birthday passes, but in korea, they get age when a new year comes. Also, in korea, the moment you were born, youre 1 year old, but youre 0 year old in america. Thats something different between korea and some other countries similar to america.
Anyways.. Thats what i got confused to explain to people when my birthday comes. If somebody ask me how old are you now? Then i would be like.. Ummm wait..new year passed and its my birthday.. So..
Haha.. Confusing.
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Post by nadiraamalina on Dec 5, 2012 6:14:57 GMT -5
This is very much related to my group's skit, but I do not understand how the people here can bump into each other and not apologize. When I first came here I was apologizing left and right pretty much all the time, since I'm not very coordinated. I was also pretty shocked that people wouldn't apologize to me even if they sort of tackled me. It takes some getting used to, but the easiest part was accepting that the people here wouldn't apologize if they bumped into you, while the harder part was me not apologizing for bumping into someone cause you'd feel rude.
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Post by woori on Dec 13, 2012 22:19:14 GMT -5
And I was shoked Pontegi? something like that. I dont like looking and smelling so I havent eat it yet.
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Post by agneslianaputri99 on Jan 1, 2013 6:47:10 GMT -5
when I first came to Korea and rode subway for the first time I get pushed a lot by old people -_- and sometimes when I pluck in my earphone and do a little lip sync on the subway the people around me looks at me like there's something wrong with me -_-
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Post by elisalee on Jan 20, 2013 6:33:38 GMT -5
Even though I'm korean, the ajummas in korea really annoys me because when I was about to get in the subway, an ajumma just pushed me without saying anything. When I was in Singapore, when a person bumped to me, they always said sorry. But in Korea, this was kind of strange to me even though I'm a Korean.
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Post by jooyoungpark on Jan 21, 2013 8:38:05 GMT -5
In canada, especially in vancouver, there is alot of rain, and i guess the people who live there are used to it. So most of the people would not have umbrellas when coming to school, they do not bother to get wet in the rain
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Post by woori on Jan 21, 2013 9:18:40 GMT -5
hello
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Post by agneslianaputri99 on Jan 22, 2013 0:16:40 GMT -5
hello
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