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Smurg
Profile Blog Joined November 2004
Australia3818 Posts
Last Edited: 2005-06-11 21:35:44
June 11 2005 21:35 GMT
#41
On June 12 2005 06:34 Rekrul wrote:
Show nested quote +
On June 12 2005 06:20 artofmagic wrote:
you said at night, the street is full of porn, flyers etc... so in the morning it's all gone?


mostly yes i dont know where it goes lol magic

But where has the porn gone Rekrul? Where?

Porn gone =
Rekrul
Profile Blog Joined November 2002
Korea (South)17174 Posts
June 11 2005 21:35 GMT
#42
On June 12 2005 06:21 waa wrote:
whats the cost of living and how do you make money?


depends on how u wanna live i spend too much and i make money with poker
why so 진지해?
hasuwar
Profile Joined April 2003
7365 Posts
June 11 2005 21:36 GMT
#43
or now that I think about it, you probably can't even get a license because you can't read the signs/pass a test to get one :o
Diablo3 ID: Exalted#1710 -------R.I.P. http://hasuwar.isgsa.org. Much love to Toptalent
Rekrul
Profile Blog Joined November 2002
Korea (South)17174 Posts
June 11 2005 21:37 GMT
#44
On June 12 2005 06:32 hasuwar wrote:
You're pretty lucky to get to experience something like that, Rekrul. It's always interesting to read about it. It's almost like a dream come true, isn't it? I wish you'd take some more pictures and/or video like you did when you first got there. That was cool too :D Things like this will be cool to look back on later in your life, definantly.

Anyway, I'm wondering how you get around town. Do you plan on buying a car, or do you just take a taxi, or what's the transportation deal?


when i go to the states for good ill get a car but public transportation is soooo good here i mostly use taxi cause its the easiest but the cheapest is bus and subway and its very fast and CHEAP as HELL. taxi rates just went up 20% here but thats still nothing compared to usa taxis lol

why so 진지해?
Smurg
Profile Blog Joined November 2004
Australia3818 Posts
Last Edited: 2005-06-11 21:41:21
June 11 2005 21:40 GMT
#45
When are you going to the states for good?

Is Korea a likely place for any random foreigner to want to stay for good, if/when they can acquire a permanent visa?
waa
Profile Joined March 2005
289 Posts
June 11 2005 21:40 GMT
#46
On June 12 2005 06:35 Rekrul wrote:
Show nested quote +
On June 12 2005 06:21 waa wrote:
whats the cost of living and how do you make money?


depends on how u wanna live i spend too much and i make money with poker


how much like monthly? what all do you spend your money on?
Ack1027
Profile Blog Joined January 2004
United States7873 Posts
June 11 2005 21:56 GMT
#47
From a Korean-American's perspective that was actually kind of touching to read.

I believe we are very different Rekrul but I think we do share one thing in common.

I love Korea. It's not about the people, the city, the things there are to do. I just love the land itself and how I feel over there. From what you've written I think you feel the same way.

Well, contrary to how I was in your other article, I wish you good fortune in anything you do.
Smuft
Profile Blog Joined January 2003
Canada318 Posts
June 11 2005 21:57 GMT
#48
Good post.

Now that you have experienced this life style, how far would you go to maintain it?

Would you have the balls to do it?

^^
x2fst
Profile Blog Joined August 2004
1272 Posts
Last Edited: 2005-06-11 22:15:20
June 11 2005 22:14 GMT
#49
ok so how short IS the average korean?
are there ANY tall ones?
how many people did you see who were taller than you during your stay? (also how tall are you)
how many whites are there? in japan i saw no other white people in 2 months (except at airport)
muda, is a crime for me to wear a shirt, cos I is so good lookin
Bard
Profile Joined November 2004
Jamaica898 Posts
Last Edited: 2005-06-11 22:31:26
June 11 2005 22:27 GMT
#50
The old style anal-problem restroom

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I found Chinese version (no front door) instead, but you get the idea.

Basically you need to have strong leg muscle and good aiming skill. You squat down and shoot down your product into the hall haha.

My elementary, middle, high - schools had this type of toilents. I couldn't do this either when I was young but I got used to it after all.

Though they had semi-modern style squat toilets.. you still have to squat and poop but you can flush them. So you only smell your poos but those old old style restroom is crazy.. you smell all the existing poos + pees + some stuff stacked in the hole, that will be your worst smelling experience.


I read some research article about those toilets. It said squating is really good for your health. Korean people's constipation rate has been increased after we adopted modern style toilets. It also said when you use those old-style toilets, your legs naturally push your tummy so it helps you to do the work. It was interesting article.

Sorry when you were TLing while eating -_-;;
Working on Subtitles..
MoltkeWarding
Profile Joined November 2003
5195 Posts
June 11 2005 22:36 GMT
#51
Sorry, but there are no redeeming qualities about squat toilets.

Now if you want to see those in my old elementary school, the holes were big enough to fall through the concrete ground into piles of....mixed human feces.

Not to mention in China the ground of public bathrooms are usually covered with disgusting dried yellow fluids, don't know about Korea.
pfff
Profile Joined May 2004
Belgium1352 Posts
June 11 2005 22:38 GMT
#52
On June 12 2005 04:20 Xeofreestyler wrote:
Our drinking age is 16. Hah ;D

I always wondered if there are bets, like on horsetracks, for korean progaming

really?
heh, i thought we didnt have a drinking age
It ain’t no sin to be glad you’re alive
SwedishHero
Profile Joined April 2005
Sweden869 Posts
June 11 2005 22:39 GMT
#53
wow great reading rek honestly very exciting

Now to the more imorptant issue, when are you coming back and where should we meet?

j/k but sure would love to share all that with you!!
Italiano??...no...no italiano?
superjoppe
Profile Joined December 2004
Sweden3685 Posts
June 11 2005 22:43 GMT
#54
uhuh.. the place where he sits doesnt seem to have any paper.. ??!
Liquid`Drone
Profile Joined September 2002
Norway28727 Posts
June 11 2005 22:46 GMT
#55
I heard that outside europe people use their hands
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OctoPuSs
Profile Blog Joined May 2004
Canada5279 Posts
June 11 2005 22:47 GMT
#56
On June 12 2005 07:46 Liquid`Drone wrote:
I heard that outside europe people use their hands

true
Depression is just a sarcastic state of mind. Liquid`HerO Fighting!
Rekrul
Profile Blog Joined November 2002
Korea (South)17174 Posts
June 11 2005 22:50 GMT
#57
On June 12 2005 07:14 x2fst wrote:
ok so how short IS the average korean?
are there ANY tall ones?
how many people did you see who were taller than you during your stay? (also how tall are you)
how many whites are there? in japan i saw no other white people in 2 months (except at airport)


i can only remember seeing 2 koreans taller than me but i probably saw 4 or 5

i am 194
why so 진지해?
haduken
Profile Blog Joined April 2003
Australia8267 Posts
June 11 2005 22:52 GMT
#58
When i went back to China for holidays, the public toilets don't provide the papers so you have to coined like a dollar or sumting before going in. I was told this before went out on my own, what i wasn't told is that the paer vending machine sell tampon and toilet papers and tampon and toilet paper is practically the word in Chinese... so naturally i brought the tampon instead of toilet paper...


those squat toilets are a safety hazard, you don't kno what goes down there and you never see the toilets get cleaned... so the piles of shit just keep getting higher... haha
Rillanon.au
MoltkeWarding
Profile Joined November 2003
5195 Posts
June 11 2005 22:58 GMT
#59
In grade 1 I saw a dung farmer clean the pit once. He had a bucket and a 12 ft long shovel -_-.
ApollyoN
Profile Joined April 2003
United States1297 Posts
June 11 2005 23:01 GMT
#60
Excellent read, I hope I get to have an experience like that one day =]
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