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This entry was written by Robert Koehler, posted on May 18, 2007 at 7:04 am, filed under Asides, Korean Culture, Photos of Korea, Stupid Foreigner Tricks. Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post.
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I think that’s the silliest thing since Be The Reds, but if it must be done, I want to see this kind of international outpouring for blue balls.
That… must… be… stopped.
How to give a Korean Nationalist an orgasm..
Yes, Korean is Scientific
Yes, I love Kimchi
Oh Oh Yes Yes!!
Yes, Koreans are kind to Foreigners
Yes, you are superior because you have 5000 years of history
Yes, the sky is bluer in Korea
Oh Oh , don’t stop please, Oh Baby!
Yes, Hangul is the greatest alphabet in the world
Yes, Korean products are the best in the world
Yes, Koreans are the most internet savvy people in the world
I’m coming I’m coming just a bit more!!!
Yes, Korean rice is the best in the world
Yes, Korean beef is the best in the world
Did the earth move for you too!!!
Like way back when I was forced to attend the annual KOTESOL conference here in Busan. At the time, the city of Busan was heavily lobbying to get the APEC conference to be held here. Well, in between major presentations, they had some local politicians up on stage, with a translator, pitch the lobbying effort and tell us how we “should all do something to help out”. Then, they asked for several waygookin(well dressed) to come up on stage for a picture with big, happy smiles while holding a huge sign saying “Busan Welcomes APEC”. It was a silly dog and pony show, but there were enough foreign clowns more than willing to play along.
# 4, It’s the Korean version of Jerry Springer.
In response to Benicio74, I was returning to Korea from a trip to Hong Kong and was at the end of the immigration line. A Korean man came up and introduced himself as the head immigration at the airport. Though I maintained my collected composure on the outside, inside alarm bells were ringing. What kind of bureaucratic nightmare was I about to find myself in the middle of?
He then explained himself. As Korea was preparing its Pyeongchon 2014 Olympic bid, they wanted pictures of well dressed white folk foreigners moving effortlessly through immigration with broadly smiling faces.
Ironically it seems that the immigration officer chosen to be a part of this picture was chosen more for her looks than her aptitude and she almost forgot to stamp my passport.
I’m interested to see if they choose/chose a multi-racial, multi-ethnic blend of people for the promotional materials or if it was simply white privilege that saved me about 10 minutes in line.
Them is love the Korean, but we is love the Englishee more. Sorry, couldn’t resist.
Yes, the heart over the head gesture is embarrassingly silly, and torture would have to be used to force me to do it, but I think that it is mainly a cultural difference. For example, I think Japanese and other Asians may enjoy the gesture, and probably even many Westerners.
I would have been insulted by the request to do the gesture. I’m not a child.
“Yes, the heart over the head gesture is embarrassingly silly, and torture would have to be used to force me to do it, but I think that it is mainly a cultural difference. For example, I think Japanese and other Asians may enjoy the gesture, and probably even many Westerners.”
You can excuse it by saying it’s a cultural difference only up to a certain point. Would they have asked middle-aged Korean professionals taking English lessons to do the gesture? Probably not.
Ecorn,
it was all well-dressed white people.
As I said, most of us think it is ridiculous, but they will always find some foreigner clowns who will gladly put on the frilly tutu and jump through the hoop for them!
Sadly, these clowns think they are helping Korean-foreigner relations. They have no idea that they are just promoting the idea that the locals can just treat us like trained monkeys at their whim.
If given the choice between performing the heart-over-the-head routine and getting kicked repeatedly in the balls for 16 hours by an NFL punter wearing a steel-toed boot…I’d paint the bullseye on my ballsac myself.
Couldn’t at least one of them extended only middle fingers to the top of the head?
D’OH: “…have extended only middle fingers…”
I still wanna see a Jamsil-sized stadium full of a multi-ethnic people striking an iheartblueballs pose. Nothing less and definitely nothing more.
“If given the choice between performing the heart-over-the-head routine and getting kicked repeatedly in the balls for 16 hours by an NFL punter wearing a steel-toed boot…I’d paint the bullseye on my ballsac myself.”
LOL. Yeah, but you’d probably be on the ground with your arms over your head shaping a heart after just the first kick.
blueballs, we miss your ballsac - aren’t you talking about Roshambo (sp?) from South Park?
As you were: Rochambeau.
It reminds me of a certain physical disciplinary measure imposed on misbehaving students in grade school. So naturally, it is an excellent tool for the proper training of foreigners.
Austin wrote:
“How to give a Korean Nationalist an orgasm..
Yes, Korean is Scientific
Yes, I love Kimchi
Oh Oh Yes Yes!!
Yes, Koreans are kind to Foreigners
Yes, you are superior because you have 5000 years of history
Yes, the sky is bluer in Korea
Oh Oh , don’t stop please, Oh Baby!
Yes, Hangul is the greatest alphabet in the world
Yes, Korean products are the best in the world
Yes, Koreans are the most internet savvy people in the world
I’m coming I’m coming just a bit more!!!
Yes, Korean rice is the best in the world
Yes, Korean beef is the best in the world
Did the earth move for you too!!!”
Now a variation on the same theme.
How to give American nationalist an orgasm
Yes, America is the most freedom-loving country in the world!
Yes, yes, yes!
(Never mind slavery, genocide of Native Americans, or the fact that America currently incarcerates more of its people per capita than any other nation!)
Yes, yes, yes!
America is the greatest country in the world!
Yes, yes, yes!
(Just look at Paris Hilton, McDonald’s, and Girls Gone Wild! The only country where sex tapes can HELP your career!)
Yes, yes, yes!
Football rules!
Oh, yes, yes… God, yes.
(Never mind that the rest of the world plays a real kind of FOOTball that is played with feet, but what the heck… We’re AMERICANS! We’re special. We’ll call our sport played by the fattest people we can find FOOTball and call the other sport soccer.)
Oh, God, yes…
We love the second amendment and the right to bear arms!
Hell, yeah… Ooo, baby…
(Speaking of babies, a 10month baby baby named BUBBA Ludwig–not making this up–obtained a gun permit in the city of Chicago. God bless America! Yes!!!)
Oh, guns, yes… Oh, baby…
We are America and so responsible that we get to control which weapons other nations get to have!
Oh, I am coming, baby…
(Wait, even though America is the only nation to have ever used nukes… TWICE!)
But hypocrisy and double-standards are so sexy!
Oh, yes, skeet skeet!
(That’s right. This is America where you can become a huge pop star singing lyrics that contain words like skeet!–”skeet” meaning to ejaculate on a woman’s face.)
God bless America! We’re the bestest damn country on God’s green earth!
America isn’t #1 in education, literacy, or health care. But we’re #1 in weapons spending, incarceration, and obesity!
Skeet, skeet! I’m coming, baby. Let me shoot my wad in your face! AMERICA RULES! Rest of y’all are just jealous!
I won a national foreign monkey Korean speaking prize in my first year of university here. Yes, these competitions can be misrepresented, but for foreign students, they are a great means of encouragement. Lets not ridicule those trying to break down barriers.
I dare say most of those in the photo have made a serious commitment to learning Korean and need not be ridiculed for that by us. Korea has changed much in the last couple of decades.
It seems every foreigner I meet these days can carry their own in Korean, and that never used to be the case
blue translator, that was foul.
Did you just cum all over the face of America?
That is just sick.
I bet you would rub the cum in if you had a chance, if America didn’t prevent you
Austin here seems like a perfect candidate for the incalcitrant foreigner house-training program.
“But we’re #1 in … obesity! “
Not anymore. We’ve slipped to #3 behind Saudi Arabia and Panama:
http://www.iotf.org/database/G.....yFeb07.mht
I’m confident that we’ll catch up and reclaim #1 position soon. We just have to keep super-sizing those French–I mean, freedom–fries. Freedom fries! God bless the USA! Let the eagle soar!
It’s no longer Freedom fries, it’s back to French fries because the French have woken up and elected someone who is not a socialist. And yes, America is a great country, despite its flaws. I hope it gets stronger and better as that will mean my country, Canada, will be in an even better position as a friend and ally. It’s too bad many Koreans can’t see that it is much more beneficial to have the US as a friend and ally, rather than trying to play some silly balancer role.
Iheartblueballs wrote:
Judging from your old avatar, I get the feeling that you would rather have a kick to the balls than ice cream. That thing was disgusting.
Let me know your address Gerry and I’ll send you a full-size poster of my avatar so you can hang it on the ceiling above your bed. I’ll even sign it for you, and I won’t be offended when you rub one (or ten) out while gazing upon it.
Nice.
Btw, speaking of learning Korean, one thing that annoys the shit out of me here which almost never seemed to happen in China is that as soon as Koreans see your foreign face, they feel compelled to throw whatever English they know at it. This is Korea, speak Korean goddamit. If the foreigner cannot understand you, THEN try your English. Then you are being helpful, not extremely annoying.
The difference is that there are more English-speaking Koreans per capita than English-speaking Chinese. In major Chinese cities, I got English thrown at me on numerous occasions not to mention social invites from locals seeking “English friends.” Unlike Korea, China has this horrible foreign monkey show known as “English corner.” Chinese gather in a park or some other public place to practice English with a foreigner who is often there under compulsion from their employer.