I've been yearning and praying for months that something like this would happen and tonight, as i was taking my daily walk through the park close to my workplace, it finally happened!
Some older gentleman saw me walking without a mask and instead of staring, checking to see his mask is on tightly or even crossing to the other side of the road...he pulled down his own mask and for the first time in months, breathed God's air!
Very very small in the grand scheme, but after more than a year of disappointments, this was amazing!
So are you from South Africa? (and how did you end up in S. Korea?)
I ate some bulgogi at a local Korean place a few days ago. Kimchi was on the side; I still don't really like it :) (I was in S. Korea in 1992 and 1993? for a few weeks)
I am indeed. There's a saying, where you find work, you'll find Afrikaners. I make double here teaching than I would back home. There are a bunch of us teaching English over here. I've been here six years and until about 10 months ago when the Chyna Virus stopped being a rational fear and became a mindless cult and open celebration of the ability to mindlessly follow authority; Korea was an awesome place to stay. Now I'm looking forward to leaving at the end of the year.
I like Bulgogi, still not a fan of Kimchi. Korea in the early 90s must've been a very different place for foreigners. The overwhelming majority of the population still can't speak any English beyond "Hello, how are you?" So I imagine navigating your way around would've been an immense challenge.
"I'M FINE THANK YOU AND YOUUUUU"
I was there from 2012-2014. I taught both kids and adults. I gotta say, the ability to mindlessly follow authority has always been a thing over there, probably since they were a Confucian society for so long. Ask people, kids included, why Dokdo is important and you'll usually get a canned response: it's full of resources and natural gas so it's important for our country.
Followed by, teacher Japan bad.
When I visited Seoul a few years ago I was entertained by the solemn Dokdo propaganda video playing on the airport shuttle train, chastising Japan about how "The World Knows" that it's unequivocally Korea's territory.
There's zero equivalent pro-Takeshima propaganda in Japan if you don't dive into deep nationalist YouTube or somewhere. Haven't seen any equivalent of that in 30 years living here.
Hey fren i hope you consider staying in Korea if possible, you are doing Gods work regardless.
No, November I am leaving for many reasons, both personal and with the larger situation in context. They are aiming to have 70% of the population jabbed by then and will start jabbing kids. I don't want to be here for that.
Are they not doing the same in S.A.? They are certainly trying the same here in U.S.A.
I was there doing some field research near the DMZ, on the west coast, in a little fishing village. We worked with some Seoul University students and they got great laughs when I read from a English-Korean translation book. I could have been the greatest American standup comedian in the country just by trying to read phonetic Korean phrases :). I really liked all the Koreans we worked with; most spoke English fairly well. I guess I might not like it too much if I were to ever go back to visit. It's so sad that leftist mentality ruins everything it seeps into, whether a business, a city, a state, or a country.
Our trip to the DMZ was a highlight of our travels. We went to the Korean War museum as well and it was totally empty except for a few guards.
We were blown away at the time (2007) about how fast the internet was in Japan and Korea...when you are able to build infrastructure from the ground up, you can use new tech at the outset. Here were are slowly upgrading systems in use since the 70s. I think most Americans do not realize how big our country is compared to other countries in the world.
Perpetuates false equivalencies when comparing US to Sweden or US to So Korea.
I wonder if the So Koreans have had any luck beating wokism back, Especially since that presidential scandal and billionaire woman cult was found to be pulling the strings....
so Korean president faces calls to quit
Sadly Korea is teetering on the edge of socialism, it already has the right attitude for it. The number 1 issue before this started was Moon Jae-In's successor looking to implement UBI.