Top ten reasons you know you've been in Korea too long.......?

Question

1) You can pick up a single strand of noodles with chopsticks.
2) Your back is sore from bowing.
3) You can eat barefooted at a restaurant with a foot in your lap.
4) You can fall asleep on the city bus or subway and wake up at your stop.
5) You can make a left turn looking only to the right.
6) People ask if you want to go by car and you respond, "No, I'm in a hurry."
7) You wear white socks with a dark suit.
8) You can use a public bathroom for both genders and think nothing of it.
9) You'd rather sit on the floor than in a chair.
10) You select shoes based on how easily you can get them on and off.

Agree or disagree? Anything else to add to the list?

These are all great! I can't choose a best answer. Thanks to everyone that contributed.

These are all great! I can't choose a best answer. Thanks to everyone that contributed.

All of your answers are great! I can't choose a best answer. Thanks to everyone that contributed.

Answer 1

Dude, you are so funny... #4, #7 & #10 for sure.
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1. You buy your husband a pink dress shirt and tie.
2. He actually wears it.
3. You take the subway across town to get the DVDs 5 for 10,000Won because you can.
4. You order your pizza with extra sweet potato.
5. a ROCKIN' saturday night involves nor-ay-bong
6. You are offended when someone calls it "karaoke".
7. You are practicing your nor-ay-bong "solos" in private.
8. For women: You are holding hands with your girlfriends when out walking.
9. For men: You are carrying your girlfriend's purse for her.
10. You start to believe in the Korean Wave. (which no Non-Korean outside of Korea has heard of or understands)

Answer 2

Those are all great! Here's 12 more:

1. You ask for more "ko-chu" because the kimchi-chige soup is not hot enough.
2. You know "your" norebang song numbers without looking in the book.
3. You are not Korean but begin to dislike Japan.
4. Although you never have played, you start to watch Starcraft on cable TV.
5. You wear short skirts in sub-freezing temperatures.
6. You don't need a restroom to relieve yourself.
7. All your shoes are bent flat in the back.
8. You agree with someone and you naturally say "yeah, yeah, yeah."
9. You know who Kim Tae-hee is, but have never heard of Angelina Jolie.
10. You develop a sudden interest in math and science.
11. You think H.O.T. was the first boy band, not New Kids on the Block.
12. You think nothing of the "ajuma" mopping the floor right next to you as you're using the urinal.

Answer 3

You could also add to your listing - -

1) When you drive like they do.

2) When you make a left turn from the right lane.

3) When you make a right turn from the left lane.

4) When you use the left-turn only lane for speeding up, cutting off the car next to you that's using the straight ahead lane.

5) When you can temporarily park anywhere you feel like, without consideration to traffic movement.

6) When you can cut-off the car driver behind you and give a friendly "wave of the hand" to indicate you're sorry, but you really don't feel you're sorry, only ahead of them.

7) When litter on the streets doesn't bother you anymore.

Answer 4

I went home for a month around Chusok and truly realized how Koreanized I had become.

I'd walk into my parents house and take my shoes off without thinking about it. I bought a pair of slip on sneakers. I got bad service in a restaurant and was all like, "This would never happen in Korea!"

I was naying everyone. My mom would say, "Do you want to go to Sears?" and I'd respond "Nay."

I sat on the floor in spite of my parents having perfectly good chairs.

Finally, and perhaps the biggest sign, I bought my parents a rice cooker and a giant box of fruit before I left. I was like, "How can you live without a rice cooker and here's 15 pounds of oranges...."

Kudos on the "buying a pink shirt for your husband"... my husband owns the shiniest suit now... and it looks great with his purple shirt!

Answer 5

LMAO hahahahahhaha! this really cheered me up x) so funny lol but i still feel sick >.> sadly i'd like hug you to death and give you $5000 if u healed my throat hehe hm.. let me think.. i've never been to korea but i am one so ya xP

~you don't like to waste things
~you don't usually say hi first to another person
~you eat rice daily for meals and don't even notice it unless you think about it
~you are used to walking around barefoot almost everywhere
~you always try to bargain and try to get a lower price for the item without feeling bad(ex: you see a $25 item you keep asking the clerk or whoever to make it cheapter until you're below $20 ><)

and that's all i can think of! i'll add more later

Answer 6

- you open a bag of potato chips (or any snack bag) on the side of the bag as opposed to the top without even a second thought.

-you go to a jimjilbang or gym locker room and watch tv there stark raving naked and sprawled out

-u go to every 'grand open' of stores just to see the dancing girls

-u think to urself 'why in the hell would u put a urinal in plain view of everyone walking by?' right when ur taking a whiz at a urinal where people can see u when they walk by

-u look both ways when walking on the sidewalk to make sure ur not in a path of any scooter drivers

-u add an 'uh' to the end of every word when u talk to a korean who doesnt understand ur pronunication of words...hello-uh, nice-uh, stop-uh...etc

-u think homeplus is the biggest worldwide franchise

-instead of ordering a 'big mac meal'...its a big mac set (or big mac set-uh)

Answer 7

As a Korean, I would like to say one thing. Your question makes me giggled, most of them are pretty much relevant. However, I would like to ask you one thing associated with question no.8, have you ever seen a puplic toilet for both genders in Korea? Even I haven't seen that kind of public toilet.

In addition to you question, I will put one more on there

"Even if a toilet paper is on the dinnig table, you dont feel strange."

added later -

Oh, the question is already posted, omg.

added again -

Yes, we have a few public toilet for both genders, I've just reminded of that. Just in a few small pub or small building.

Answer 8

when ur texting and talking to someone at the same time(my cousin can do that)

when you use ur cellphone A LOT

u stopped speaking konglish and started korean

u are glued to the compute screen for about 5-10 hrs

Answer 9

o When you start saying "An-nyong Ha-se-yo" and "Kam-sa-ham-ni-da" to your American friends

o When So-ju stops getting you drunk

o When you want Bulgolgi before a burger

o When you REFUSE to pay $30 for a pair of sneakers

o When you know where to get all the "quality" Dvd's

o When you have seen visited Thailand, Hong Kong, Bangkok, Beijing, Japan, the Philipinies and Australia all departing from Incheon airport

o When you have been here for 1 month, you have been here too long.........

Answer 10

You sit "korean style" on a bus or train, after you've taken off your shoes of course

you can't eat pizza without corn salad or sweet pickles.

You just can't bring yourself to leave this place!