Comments on: Taliban 1; Korea 0

By: sanshinseon

sanshinseon — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 16:34:40 +0000

Yeah, like a hit on The Sopranos, it hadda happen sooner or later…

By: dda

dda — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 09:07:36 +0000

Good show Robert.

By: Robert Koehler

Robert Koehler — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 08:36:46 +0000

# 33 Yeah, that’s right your father was a great American patriot. Why should I go home when I can rake the dough and bang your relatives?

That’s banning material, too.

By: Robert Koehler

Robert Koehler — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 08:22:46 +0000

dlatn — Congratulations. You’ve been banned. Comment #4 was one of the most disgusting things I’ve read in my comment section. And I’ve read a lot of disgusting things down here.

By: Iceberg

Iceberg — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 01:25:21 +0000

As far as I know, no one calls their younger brothers or sisters (literally or figuratively) 동생. They simply refer to their name. Some guys who are dating older women, though, will call them 누나 (older sister) - at least initially.

In my experience, the Korean women who have called me 오빠 usually spoke little or no English and the bulk of our conversation is/was in Korean. That allows for a more natural use of the term. They always start out using my name and then at some point 오빠 “accidentally” (so they say) slips out in conversation. I tell them I like it, and they continue to use it from there.

If someone only uses English in conversation, they are not likely to be referred to as 오빠.

By: sanshinseon

sanshinseon — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 00:54:47 +0000

I’ve never heard that Korean guys call their GFs “little sister” —
do they ever?

By: sanshinseon

sanshinseon — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 00:52:41 +0000

> dltan #44:
Actually I do remember one or more early Korean girlfriends (80s) telling me that K-gals did call their BFs 어빠 meaning older brother, depicting it as “a Korean thing”, and that it squiked me out (seeming more incestuous than intimate), and that they never seemed to consider applying it to me — they themselves wouldn’t consider it appropriate to use with a foreign BF. I guess sometime in the 90s that psycho-social barrier came down, and K-GFs felt OK with using it on F-BFs… There’s a research-paper in here somewhere…

But the rest of your post was less charming than a Railway…

By: Railwaycharm

Railwaycharm — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 23:08:18 +0000

All, the statement I made was completely out of frustration, hyperbole through and through. No I am not an English Teacher. No, I am not banging the locals. My corny statement was meant to be as over-the-top as Pawi’s pabulum puking.
I conduct myself with dignity and have never pulled a Busan 9, never played the ugly American bit. In-fact I am critical of those who have.

By: Herod

Herod — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 23:04:03 +0000

Good money and lots of women by losers’ standards.

By: mcnut

mcnut — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 22:49:26 +0000

why does telling the truth make you a loser

there is good money here and lots of women

nothing wrong with that