Comments on: More Sports http://sojuandi.blogsome.com/2006/06/05/more-sports/ Wed, 20 Aug 2008 15:22:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.1-alpha by: james http://sojuandi.blogsome.com/2006/06/05/more-sports/#comment-1075 Thu, 03 Aug 2006 10:15:25 +0100 http://sojuandi.blogsome.com/2006/06/05/more-sports/#comment-1075 i don't thik kim hyun joon meant anything bad. just like most true koreans, she's curious as a cat. maybe she hasn't had the opportunity to meet Wyatt types, who rule. i mean...anyone who marries a korean, embraces korean, and knows anything about the grateful dead is a fricking stud!! i don’t thik kim hyun joon meant anything bad. just like most true koreans, she’s curious as a cat.

maybe she hasn’t had the opportunity to meet Wyatt types, who rule.

i mean…anyone who marries a korean, embraces korean, and knows anything about the grateful dead is a fricking stud!!

]]> by: kim hyun joon http://sojuandi.blogsome.com/2006/06/05/more-sports/#comment-995 Tue, 06 Jun 2006 23:02:42 +0100 http://sojuandi.blogsome.com/2006/06/05/more-sports/#comment-995 interesting.... people. interesting…. people.

]]> by: NOVA http://sojuandi.blogsome.com/2006/06/05/more-sports/#comment-993 Tue, 06 Jun 2006 08:58:47 +0100 http://sojuandi.blogsome.com/2006/06/05/more-sports/#comment-993 Wyatt, Would you pls delete my last post it's duplicated? Thanks. Wyatt, Would you pls delete my last post it’s duplicated? Thanks.

]]> by: cm http://sojuandi.blogsome.com/2006/06/05/more-sports/#comment-991 Tue, 06 Jun 2006 08:18:54 +0100 http://sojuandi.blogsome.com/2006/06/05/more-sports/#comment-991 I mean, hanguk saram. Shows how much I know. I mean, hanguk saram. Shows how much I know.

]]> by: cm http://sojuandi.blogsome.com/2006/06/05/more-sports/#comment-990 Tue, 06 Jun 2006 07:57:31 +0100 http://sojuandi.blogsome.com/2006/06/05/more-sports/#comment-990 You have a very funny blog, I'm thoroughly entertained. Although I'm full Korean and my parents are fobs (I mean that in the nicest way, I love them and their fobby ways) I've never lived there, so I find myself identifying with your perspective and observations more than a hangul saram. I hope to go there someday with my hubs and hapa-ling child. Keep on bloggin'. You have a very funny blog, I’m thoroughly entertained. Although I’m full Korean and my parents are fobs (I mean that in the nicest way, I love them and their fobby ways) I’ve never lived there, so I find myself identifying with your perspective and observations more than a hangul saram. I hope to go there someday with my hubs and hapa-ling child. Keep on bloggin’.

]]> by: NOVA http://sojuandi.blogsome.com/2006/06/05/more-sports/#comment-989 Tue, 06 Jun 2006 04:30:19 +0100 http://sojuandi.blogsome.com/2006/06/05/more-sports/#comment-989 Hyun Joon, I think it is very natural to observe/experience other culture if you are reside other country otherwise you will result in a lifetime of missed opportunities to meet wonderful people and fully enjoy the culture and good times. You will be bystander forever if you are not into other culture / country. On the other hand, I do love to have "Bop with Kimchijiggae" kind meals over pastas, salard and and steaks and so on. And I will be up very early to cheer team Korea, local station will broadcast at 5:30 AM, and I would definitely go to stadium to support team Korea with red shirt on if the match held in here. That's something from very deep inside of me just like most of ordinary chul-soo and gil-dong would do. It would be same to ordinary Sam and Joe over in Korea. BTW Hope team Korea go thru Knockout stage and be on sweet sixteen of second round. Go Korea! Go! Hyun Joon, I think it is very natural to observe/experience other culture if you are reside other country otherwise you will result in a lifetime of missed opportunities to meet wonderful people and fully enjoy the culture and good times.
You will be bystander forever if you are not into other culture / country.

On the other hand, I do love to have “Bop with Kimchijiggae” kind meals over pastas, salard and and steaks and so on. And I will be up very early to cheer team Korea, local station will broadcast at 5:30 AM, and I would definitely go to stadium to support team Korea with red shirt on if the match held in here.

That’s something from very deep inside of me just like most of ordinary chul-soo and gil-dong would do. It would be same to ordinary Sam and Joe over in Korea.

BTW
Hope team Korea go thru Knockout stage and be on sweet sixteen of second round. Go Korea! Go!

]]> by: daeguowl http://sojuandi.blogsome.com/2006/06/05/more-sports/#comment-988 Mon, 05 Jun 2006 22:29:57 +0100 http://sojuandi.blogsome.com/2006/06/05/more-sports/#comment-988 Kim Hyun Joon, just as there plenty of foreigners who marry Korean wives but make very little effort to assimilate any Korean culture, there are plenty of foreigners who whole-heartedly embrace Korean culture. While there are plenty of foreigners whose meals while in Korea consist of TGI, Bennigans and MaccyD's, there are plenty of foreigners who quite happily wolf down Kimchijiggae for breakfast. I admit that Wyatt is more hardcore than most, I think it is to be admired. (Although I do worry about how you will cope when you return to the states, from my personal experiences I had a lot of difficulty adapting to life back in the UK and still disdain parts of English cultures some 4 years down the line.) You'll know you've turned Korean when you head back to the states and: 1) You need to equip your house with electronics and you only buy Samsung. 2) You eschew Nokia/Ericsson phones for the latest LG. 3) You go out to buy a car and you end up choosing between a Hyundai and a Kia dealership. 4) You go out for breakfast and you walk straight past Denny's and on to the Korean snack bar. By the way, I'm not sure what part of the states you're from (I'm sure the answer is somewhere on your site but I can't be arsed to look) but if you do get homesick for Korea then you can move to LA where a whole bunch of Koreans live life exactly as they did in Seoul. So Kim Hyun Joon, these are the people who you should be asking "why" to. Why have you made no effort to learn more than rudimentary english? Why have you been here 5 years and never eaten anything except Korean food? Why did you come here in the first place if you are not going to embrace the lifestyle? Apologies if it seems like I'm ranting, I get fed up of having to justify why I as a foreigner like certain things about Korea, all the while being lumped into the generalisation that foreigners come to Korea and moan about how everything is different and not very nice. I shall now get back to work. Kim Hyun Joon, just as there plenty of foreigners who marry Korean wives but make very little effort to assimilate any Korean culture, there are plenty of foreigners who whole-heartedly embrace Korean culture. While there are plenty of foreigners whose meals while in Korea consist of TGI, Bennigans and MaccyD’s, there are plenty of foreigners who quite happily wolf down Kimchijiggae for breakfast.
I admit that Wyatt is more hardcore than most, I think it is to be admired. (Although I do worry about how you will cope when you return to the states, from my personal experiences I had a lot of difficulty adapting to life back in the UK and still disdain parts of English cultures some 4 years down the line.)

You’ll know you’ve turned Korean when you head back to the states and:

1) You need to equip your house with electronics and you only buy Samsung.
2) You eschew Nokia/Ericsson phones for the latest LG.
3) You go out to buy a car and you end up choosing between a Hyundai and a Kia dealership.
4) You go out for breakfast and you walk straight past Denny’s and on to the Korean snack bar.

By the way, I’m not sure what part of the states you’re from (I’m sure the answer is somewhere on your site but I can’t be arsed to look) but if you do get homesick for Korea then you can move to LA where a whole bunch of Koreans live life exactly as they did in Seoul.

So Kim Hyun Joon, these are the people who you should be asking “why” to. Why have you made no effort to learn more than rudimentary english? Why have you been here 5 years and never eaten anything except Korean food? Why did you come here in the first place if you are not going to embrace the lifestyle?

Apologies if it seems like I’m ranting, I get fed up of having to justify why I as a foreigner like certain things about Korea, all the while being lumped into the generalisation that foreigners come to Korea and moan about how everything is different and not very nice. I shall now get back to work.

]]> by: Wyatt http://sojuandi.blogsome.com/2006/06/05/more-sports/#comment-987 Mon, 05 Jun 2006 21:59:04 +0100 http://sojuandi.blogsome.com/2006/06/05/more-sports/#comment-987 Andy, So the Korean national team is like the Grateful Dead and the Korean soccer fans are like Deadheads? That's pretty awesome then. Kim Hyun Joon, Jay Lee was pretty much spot on in his answer, though he left out that I find Korean pop culture far more interesting than Korean politics so that's what I write about. Since I'm living in Korea and my wife is Korean I'm exposed to a lot of Korean culture. If I continue writing this blog when I return to the US, there will more likely than not be less posts about Mr. Shark and more posts about Mr. Met. Less No Brain and more Les Savy Fav. I'd basically write about the same kind of stuff just the American version of it. Daeguowl, You are always hooking me up with the info I'm looking for. You get a gold star, and can pick one item out of the grab bag of prizes. Jay Lee, You get a gold star as well for providing the logic whilst I was out. Andy, So the Korean national team is like the Grateful Dead and the Korean soccer fans are like Deadheads? That’s pretty awesome then.

Kim Hyun Joon, Jay Lee was pretty much spot on in his answer, though he left out that I find Korean pop culture far more interesting than Korean politics so that’s what I write about. Since I’m living in Korea and my wife is Korean I’m exposed to a lot of Korean culture. If I continue writing this blog when I return to the US, there will more likely than not be less posts about Mr. Shark and more posts about Mr. Met. Less No Brain and more Les Savy Fav. I’d basically write about the same kind of stuff just the American version of it.

Daeguowl, You are always hooking me up with the info I’m looking for. You get a gold star, and can pick one item out of the grab bag of prizes.

Jay Lee, You get a gold star as well for providing the logic whilst I was out.

]]> by: Jay Lee http://sojuandi.blogsome.com/2006/06/05/more-sports/#comment-986 Mon, 05 Jun 2006 18:04:31 +0100 http://sojuandi.blogsome.com/2006/06/05/more-sports/#comment-986 What do you mean Kim Hyun Joon? He lives in Korea with his Korean wife. It would be strange if he wasn't. What do you mean Kim Hyun Joon? He lives in Korea with his Korean wife. It would be strange if he wasn’t.

]]> by: daeguowl http://sojuandi.blogsome.com/2006/06/05/more-sports/#comment-985 Mon, 05 Jun 2006 17:18:37 +0100 http://sojuandi.blogsome.com/2006/06/05/more-sports/#comment-985 KAL has a daily flight to London and Asiana flies 3-4 times a week and British Airways doesn't fly at all. There are no direct flights between Seoul and Scotland. As for Koreans in the UK there are quite a lot including lots of salrymen in West London and lots of PhD students at all the major universities. Even the town where I live which has a population of 200,000 has more than 100 Koreans in it. The korean community in each town loosely congregates around a "church" so we have one church here but I believe in Edinburgh there are three churches so that indicates that there are far more Koreans there. Moreover as Glasgow is but a stones throw away there are another few hundred potential fans. KAL has a daily flight to London and Asiana flies 3-4 times a week and British Airways doesn’t fly at all. There are no direct flights between Seoul and Scotland.
As for Koreans in the UK there are quite a lot including lots of salrymen in West London and lots of PhD students at all the major universities. Even the town where I live which has a population of 200,000 has more than 100 Koreans in it. The korean community in each town loosely congregates around a “church” so we have one church here but I believe in Edinburgh there are three churches so that indicates that there are far more Koreans there. Moreover as Glasgow is but a stones throw away there are another few hundred potential fans.

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