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Please contribute TLers and show off what you learned in Korea.
Korean Starcraft:
Hell you guys know this!
Manner, GG, no manner blah!
a. 18 - Ship PPal- looks like 18, but sounds a lot like FUCK in Korean.
b. OBER (over): usage: when some 'over' exagerates a statement or is 'over' reacting to something. Usually used as in ' don't over' or OBER HAJI MA
(remember in Korean English all Vs are Bs and all Bs are Bs ^^)
c. Pighting (Fighting): usage when you are cheering someone on, come on, you guys know this stuff, YimYoHwan Pighting! or I would say Giyom Pighting.
(remember in Korean English all Fs are Ps and all Ps are Ps except when they confused with Bs or Vs, which the latter are both interchangable but the Bs are most commonly used)
d. Night (Booking Club-explained below): a type of club which has a relatively small dance floor and lots of seating where waiters drag seemingly unwilling girls to sit beside you and drink your expensive whiskey while you pay out of your ass to enjoy yourself.
e. Booking (happens at a Night-explained above): the act of a 'waiter' who is actual a modern day speed match maker who drags women to have a 'booking' with you (short encouter where you repeat the same thing to 20 women a night).
f. Room Salon (upper class drinking place) about 1k USD per person segemented into jum Oh (.5) or ten puro (10 %) where they just pour you drinks and act as charming companions for the night, think geishas but modernized for Korea. I beleive the .5 represnts the top 50% of beautiful women, while 'ten puro' (10%) represents the top 10% of beautiful women.
Culture note: an aside:
Remember while most Korean women have some form of plastic surgery or another, they were pretty hot to begin with and who can argue with them if they want to be more hotter. Please leave the country if you are looking for personality only! Korea is not for the foolish or unworthy! Remember that you you will have some hesitation at first, but will get use to it and love them. Warning: if you are going to marry a very hot Korean girl and you suspect she is a bit too artificial and you don't wanna have ugly babies, then ask to see a family picture and pay very close attention to the nose of the parents including the height of the bridge(pro tip!) you'll thank me afterwards!
g. Sexy Bar/Bikini Bar (drink bar while girls who pour your drink and make conversation with you in a bar setting), which is relatively quite inexpensive, in a sexy bar they wear sexy clothes and in a bikini bar or biniki university bar (whoot!) they just serve you in their bikinis, but alas there was a crack down about 3-4 years ago, so no more bikini bars, just sexy bars (remember to say sexeeeee bar)
*Key learning Point: if you speak the English word with the proper English accent, no one in Korea will understanding you. I promise you that!
Remember that 100% all Rs are Ls and never ever will you encounter an R in Korea speech as it is nearly physcially impossible for Koreans to make that sound.
Example: renaissance hotel is pronounced 'lenasansu hotel' if you add in a hint of an R you are F U C K E D or as we write in Korea 18ed, you will never get to your hotel!
h. Zank you (Thank you): this is actually quite funny in that Koreans recognize that they cannot make the 'TH' sound consistantly and it is one of the key things that define the Korean English accent, so when they want exagerate saying Thank you in an amusing situation they say 'Zank you' which sounds better than Dank You, but its a kind of poke at the fact that everyone knows we can't say 'thank you'.
*remember, if you can teach a Korean how to say 'Thank you' properly without an accent, they will think you are great scholar from the heavens!
i. some non English words: Hof (where to drink beer and eat sausages)-German, A-ra-bite (part time worker)-German: the first modern South Korean overseas workers where actually in the 1950-60s to Gemany as miners and nurses and this is what they brought back from Germany as well as that 3 & 4 ball billiards! Wow, bet you smart asses didn't know that eh? keke. Word like King, Queen, princess are the same in Mandarin Chinese (as our litterature and language was highly influnced by Chinese culture) and otherwords like 'newspaper' are the same as Japanese when they brought new modern items within them during the occupation of Korea from 1910-1945 (yes we didn't have batteries and neckties either but the Japanese got that from the Americans) gogo USA keke.
ah! its too early or late at night and my brain is freezing, help me out people!
oh one last thing: Koreans when we speak English do not use the I word frequently, rather we use the 'we' word, for instance, we would say, 'our country' not my country or our girlfriend, not my girlfriend ^^ hahaha just kidding about the last one! kaka, it would suck if you did that to your gf in Korea!
peace out!
