What I learned as a Consultant at PwC Korea Part 2 - Page 2

On August 27 2010 12:40 Ack1027 wrote:
I always figured your Korean was native level from your posts!

It makes the story a lot more interesting for me anyway to learn its not fluent, though your definition of that word might have a ton of modesty ;P

On August 27 2010 13:12 Amnesia wrote:
FUCK MightyAtom why did you have to leave me in suspense AGAIN?

But wow, I must say this has been the best of blogs I've been reading for a while. I know for a fact that this kind of experience is something I will never go through. I never expected it to be this way and it seems stressing as hell. I don't know if I could handle that all that pressure :c. I'm not sure if I skipped it, but have you lived in Korea all your life? Or have you lived in the USA before?

Nonetheless this is so damn interesting. I eagerly wait for the next one. GOGOGO!

On August 27 2010 18:48 MightyAtom wrote:


My understanding level is quite high, especially for business situations, but my general vocubulary is just conversational, but sometimes I'll be talking with some random poeple and pull out a sik vocab from business. lol. But I really suffer from this really bad English/Country side accent, so a lot of Seoul people think my Korean is totally messed up, but when I meet people from Kyongsangdo, they think my korean is fine, with a bit of English accent. It drives my wife nuts that I speak in Satori at home because her parents speak Satori accent (Country accent) so its just easier for to communicate in. lol, when I say this to Seoul people, then think I'm such a liar and I'm just trying to justify my bad bad accent.

Every year a Kyunghee university in Seoul, they have a full unviersity festival where all young alumni come out and its a big tent party with each tent hosting their major. So a close friend was a philopshy major and he takes me out to go drink there with him, about 6 years ago, so I'm talking philopshy with them in my messed up Korean and of course we're all drunk and then one girls says, 'stop, stop, how is it for the last hour we're having this deep complex philosphical discussion with you and you barely speak any Korean, how is this possible' and everyone looks at each other and they're like ,'oooohhhhh, this is freaky, either he is an alien or he has some mental power or super noochi which is the same thing' and I say, 'Hey its because I'm Korean you babos, Gombeh! Lets drink' and their like, yeah, that makes sense (or not) lol and we kept on drinking. kekek.