You know if
you've been in Korea too long if:(updated version)
1.You think Korean men are romantic
2.You want to go back to the States and open
an IMF HOF HOUSE
3.A roll of toilet paper at the dinner table
doesn't bother you
4.You like to cut your noodles with scissors
5.You don't even notice the misspelled signs
in English
6.You can balance a 50 lb. bowl on your head
and walk briskly
7.You say o-rai o-rai when your helping your buddy back up his car.
8.You learned more about U.S. history through AFKN than all of your
years in school combined.
9.You start having kimchee
and rice for breakfast
10.You think Kim Dae Jung is sexy
11.More than 1/2 of your book collection is from the Kyobo BookStore.
13.You start to dig bands that have acronyms as names(H.O.T.R.E.F.DJD.O.C.)
14.You start wearing a white mask when it gets cold
15.You hate Japan for no apparent reason
16.You bow to all of your American friends
17.You look for Lotteria in Des Moines Iowa
18.You enjoy instant coffee
20.You find that you shuffle around with the backs of your shoes
crushed in
21.Your wife reaches her 40s and you expect her to be permedand
wear unmatched clothes and anklets
22.You no longer hang out in Itaewon
23.Whenever you are surprised you say 'Igoo'
24.You are honked at and you call the driver a 'pabu kasickieah'
25.U.S. dollars look small in physical size
26.You understand what they're trying to sell through the loud
speaker in that truck that drives by your house every morning.
27.You find yourself sucking air though your teeth when a shopkeeper
offers you their'best price' - worse, yet,
you are on home leave and try it at Neiman-Marcus
28.You salivate every time you see a Lassie episode
29.You know exactly what kind of dogs are "good"
30.You look forward to lunches at the KATUSA Snack Bar
31.You've bought everything they sell on the subway
32.You don't even notice the captions when watching anAmericanmovie
33.You find yourself wanting to got back to the market so you
can pop those crispy silk worm larvae
34.You bring along your own chopsticks when you go to McDonalds
35.You've eaten pig's feet36.Korean cops no longer look like
boyscouts.
37.You can pronounce "hyundai"
correctly
38.You think it's odd that the bus driver doesn't play the radio
out loud back in the States.
39.The waitress cusses you out for not tipping her upon your
return to the States
40.You're 5ft.9in. and you think you're
kind of tall.
41.You start using henna rinse when you see your first grey hair
42.You hear someone release gas and you say, "Whopann gooed?
43.The first thing you ask for at a restaurant is a cup of'coffees'
44.You go to a concert and bow back at the conductor
45.You have started snapping your gum in public
46 You start
having a midnight snack of cold rice andfish
heads
47.You refer to your POV as your 'my car'
48.You stop being surprised after laboring up a mountian for two hours and running on to a young woman all
dressed up in heals and a young man in suit and tie
49.You call back to the States and ask your best friend if they
have moved into their new 'a pot to,' yet
50.You are on leave in the States and refer to an apartmen building as a mansion
51.Someone steps on your toe and apologizes and yousay,"Nosweatie da"
52.Your favorite exclamation is "I goo
chew ka ta"
53.You buy dried squid to munch on while you are stalledintraffic
54.You stop reacting when you walk in the Men's Room and the
cleaning lady is in there
55.You stop reacting when you see an adjushi
with his hand deep into his fly when he is still fifteen feet from the
Men'sRoomdoor
56.You are driving down the highway, nature calls urgently, and
you stop along the road and whip it out
57.You start thinking that OB Beer really hits the spot
58.You moved back to the States and cussed out your car wash
man after finding your car dirty one morning
59.You stopped reacting to the janitor rinsing out the mop in
the stool
60.You start wearing a dark suit and tie at night
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