# Just curious... any other dopers living in Korea? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 17, 2000, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-curious-any-other-dopers-living-in-korea/46020 "2000-12-17T15:07:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Astroboy14](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/df705f/32.png) [@Astroboy14](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Astroboy14)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2000, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-curious-any-other-dopers-living-in-korea/46020/1 "2000-12-17T15:07:20Z")
Just me? Say it ain’t so! ---
**Author:** ![Pyrrho12](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b2d939/32.png) [@Pyrrho12](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pyrrho12)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2000, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-curious-any-other-dopers-living-in-korea/46020/2 "2000-12-17T16:01:52Z")
It ain’t so. I’m here too. Any other dopers in Kyoungsan-Namdo province? BTW, Astroboy, I asked my SO about the dirty words from the other thread today. She was disappointed because yomchae isn’t really a bad word, and the other one she had never heard in her life, though she guessed it was the offspring of some kind of animal. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![tatertot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c37758/32.png) [@tatertot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tatertot)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2000, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-curious-any-other-dopers-living-in-korea/46020/3 "2000-12-17T19:19:07Z")
I guess I’m going to have to ask MamaTot what shumyunsiki means. \ If I manage to go to Korea this spring we will _have_ to get together. I’m still trying to work out the money part, bleh. Are there any actual Koreans on the board? Or is it like the German Dopers situation where the only ones who live here are not actually German? ---
**Author:** ![sugaree](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cc9497/32.png) [@sugaree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sugaree)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2000, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-curious-any-other-dopers-living-in-korea/46020/4 "2000-12-17T21:07:31Z")
Not me. But I do _know_ an American who lives in Korea, teaches English, and is engaged to a local girl. Just out of curiosity, did you go to Penn State? ---
**Author:** ![sugaree](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cc9497/32.png) [@sugaree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sugaree)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2000, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-curious-any-other-dopers-living-in-korea/46020/5 "2000-12-18T00:14:46Z")
AWW MAN!! Ms Sugaree screws up. I just read a little info on you on the alter-ego thread, and you ain’t he. Sorry to bother you, go about your business. ---
**Author:** ![Astroboy14](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/df705f/32.png) [@Astroboy14](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Astroboy14)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2000, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-curious-any-other-dopers-living-in-korea/46020/6 "2000-12-18T02:20:11Z")
> [@](#): > > AWW MAN!! Ms Sugaree screws up. I just read a little info on you on the alter-ego thread, and you ain’t he. Sorry to bother you, go about your business. _Astro goes about his biddness…_ **Pyrrho12** do you ever come into Seoul? If so, we should get together for some soju! 🙂 **tatertot** please do ask your mother about that word… it’s been bugging me for days, now! I love bad words, and I need new ones! Tell her you’re fighting ignorance… ---
**Author:** ![Astroboy14](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/df705f/32.png) [@Astroboy14](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Astroboy14)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2000, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-curious-any-other-dopers-living-in-korea/46020/7 "2000-12-18T02:23:16Z")
BTW: I still haven’t seen the fiancee! On the way back from her skiing trip she caught the flu or something, and has been home in bed since Sat. night… I did talk to her briefly on the phone last night, and remembered to ask about “shumyunseki”… Her reply: “I dunno… BLEEAAAGHHH!” _sound of phone dropping as fiancee bolts for the bathroom…_ Pul-song-hey fiancee! ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Gunslinger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/4491bb/32.png) [@Gunslinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gunslinger)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2000, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-curious-any-other-dopers-living-in-korea/46020/8 "2000-12-18T04:44:12Z")
[sup]to paraphrase one of the great comedians of our time:[/sup] I’ve seen Korea on a map…it’s purple! ---
**Author:** ![Astroboy14](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/df705f/32.png) [@Astroboy14](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Astroboy14)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2000, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-curious-any-other-dopers-living-in-korea/46020/9 "2000-12-18T12:29:33Z")
'taint purple!! On my mao it’s green!!! In real life (at least here in Seoul) it’s mostly smoggy-grey… ---
**Author:** ![gobear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8dc957/32.png) [@gobear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gobear)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2000, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-curious-any-other-dopers-living-in-korea/46020/10 "2000-12-18T14:54:25Z")
Ah, Korea! I taught English for Sisa-yong-o-sa in Seoul (Banpo ECC in Kangnam-gu)from 1993 to 1999. I’m glad to be home, but I do miss having soju kettles and mandu at Polly’s on the Hill in Itaewon, spending Sundays at Kyongbokkung, hiking Tobong-san, having bulgogi and beer after work. I especially miss the convenience of the Seoul subway and buss system. The DC Metro could learn a lot from the Koreans, plus the Metro doesn’t have newspaper kiosks, coffee and soda machines, or public toilets.