Relocating to Seoul where I’ll analyze sh@t, boss around jr analysts, and eat a truckload of kimchi. Yeah, just in time for the HOT season! Share any good drunken Seoul stories or let me know if any of you are over there…
HOLY CRAP. That’s awesome man. Kudos, what job is it and how’d you land one overseas?
Are you going to be in/near Itaewon?
Same firm I work for now in the USA, we have offices everywhere, which is one of the reasons I originally took the job. Doing same analyst role as I do now, just remote from KR and paid in freakin won! I’ll be downtown, office in Hannamdong, condo dunno yet…massive metropolis to explore.
That’s really close to Itaewon, which is a big American expat hangout.
Do you speak Korean?
QQBEE has connections there T.T
that’s incredibly awesome!!! moon kim jong il for me.
purealpha Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Relocating to Seoul where I’ll analyze sh@t, boss > around jr analysts, and eat a truckload of kimchi. > Yeah, just in time for the HOT season! > > Share any good drunken Seoul stories or let me > know if any of you are over there… Japan>>>Korea for crazy time purealpha. Well on second thought, I wouldnt want to be in Japan now so I would pick Shanghai or Hong Kong.
When you get there, don’t forget to send email to all your coworkers from the old office, where you describe the Korean chicks and how many you get per week.
wait so is CFA > Korea or not?
Thanks doods, trying to hold my desk together while keeping up with packing and ebaying sh@t. Getting a furnished condo so everything must go! Yeah Kim Jong-il is in North Korea, which I do not plan to visit, however I may walk up to the demilitarized zone and moon him from there. I’m sure lots of South Korean guys on duty up there do that for kicks so it won’t be that out of place to see “a whitey” join in the fun. Hotties are everywhere over there, and it is weird cause there aren’t really any true uglies!!! Take a girl that is a 1-4 here; over there she takes care of herself, eats rice, does not exceed 120lb, keeps a pleasant attitude, never leaves the house without cleaning herself up, and makes herself a 7, or least a solid 6 with a good personality. What you don’t see are fatties in sweat pants parading about the streets because strangers seriously come up to you and say to your face “you are fat, disgusting, you should be ashamed”, nice. As the saying goes there is no such thing as an ugly woman, just a lazy one! “Nay, Chogumyo”…speak a little Korea, but the only way to learn it for real is when the plane lands, out of need for survival and constant exposure you take to it. Yeah and a couple hours hop over to Shanghai. Korea>CFAI, I blew off dues this year, they can blow me.
Valores Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > When you get there, don’t forget to send email to > all your coworkers from the old office, where you > describe the Korean chicks and how many you get > per week. Chung is King!
My advise is don’t be like CHUNG. http://gawker.com/208214/douchebag-hall-of-fame-chung-is-king-chung-is-king
Damn. Was beat to it.
man, i dont understand the obsession with korean chicks… ive dated a few, they’re all headcases that smell like garlic and look like aliens with big heads and small bodies
Sucking down coffee, 4wk countdown… Okay here are interesting morning cultural/societal ponderings you probably never knew nor cared to know. The interesting thing is that Koreas don’t really have a smell, at least not body odor the way we understand it in the West, that’s why they don’t sell deodorant there! The concept is foreign to them. After years of hot Korean girlfriends it struck me one day how she never smelled and then she explained that, yeah, they think it is weird that white people smell when they work out. Wow, never thought of that. You probably smelled the kimchi smell from her lunch, because if you eat a buttload of kimchi it sorta comes thru your skin and you smell like one big spicy cabbage! True. Another gem of interestingness, and related to how everyone is healthy over there; if you are a chick over 140lb it will be an uphill battle getting a job. If you are 160lb IMPOSSIBLE! The ideal is under 115lb. I’m sure Americans are offended by this “weight discrimination” or whatever. But I remember seeing an article in the WSJ “USA fat seen as normal as weights rise”. The connection I see is that as society accepts that fat is okay, people get fatter. Just like when you see two fat chicks, one is always fatter, obviously. The thinner one justifies that it is okay to “cubby up” just a little more because she is still thinner when standing next to her fatter friend. Holy cow man, it is a deadly cycle of increased cubbiness!!! The error is viewing it as natural and okay, I mean if you have to shame people into health what is wrong with that? The final lesson for today is *the agashi*. I’m so going to video these guys with my iphone and post it all over freakin’ youtube. Agashi are middle age guys in Korea. These guys work like 90hrs a week and it is socially accepted that they get absolutely sh#t faced in public, wrap their tie around their head and blow off steam, and have random women to which they are not married. While I have not witnessed it in person all the stories I hear are about these guys getting totally wasted in subways, passing out in garbage cans, and just making total asses of themselves in public…but people just look the other way cause they are the agashi, and that’s what they do man. Being a man in my 30s I of course asked, am I licensed to behave like an agashi fool too?? And the answer was yes! It was explained to me, that actually as a foreigner I can do whatever I want as I am viewed as a total outsider in their society. Nobody knows much about foreigners and so whatever you do is just “oh that must be what foreigners do”. Imagine the crap I can get away with, wow. Spreadsheet time…
That’s sweet you’re moving abroad. I may have relocation to Singapore in the works soon to help build up a new business unit, depends how things wrap up here in the states. I think there are attractive and unattractive in the US and Korea (or Singapore, for that matter), although the unattractiveness manifests itself in different ways. In the US, many people are fat. In Korea, many people have flat a$$'s. In Italy, neither of these things is true. I need to go to fashion school.
I live and Seoul and trust me the novelty of “Agashi’s” definitely wears off after a couple of months. After that it’s just disgusting seeing grown men puke everywhere on the weekend and having to watch where you’re walking all the time so as to not ruin your shoes.
purealpha Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Sucking down coffee, 4wk countdown… > > Okay here are interesting morning > cultural/societal ponderings you probably never > knew nor cared to know. > > The interesting thing is that Koreas don’t really > have a smell, at least not body odor the way we > understand it in the West, that’s why they don’t > sell deodorant there! The concept is foreign to > them. After years of hot Korean girlfriends it > struck me one day how she never smelled and then > she explained that, yeah, they think it is weird > that white people smell when they work out. Wow, > never thought of that. > > You probably smelled the kimchi smell from her > lunch, because if you eat a buttload of kimchi it > sorta comes thru your skin and you smell like one > big spicy cabbage! True. > > Another gem of interestingness, and related to how > everyone is healthy over there; if you are a chick > over 140lb it will be an uphill battle getting a > job. If you are 160lb IMPOSSIBLE! The ideal is > under 115lb. I’m sure Americans are offended by > this “weight discrimination” or whatever. But I > remember seeing an article in the WSJ “USA fat > seen as normal as weights rise”. The connection I > see is that as society accepts that fat is okay, > people get fatter. Just like when you see two fat > chicks, one is always fatter, obviously. The > thinner one justifies that it is okay to “cubby > up” just a little more because she is still > thinner when standing next to her fatter friend. > Holy cow man, it is a deadly cycle of increased > cubbiness!!! The error is viewing it as natural > and okay, I mean if you have to shame people into > health what is wrong with that? > > The final lesson for today is *the agashi*. I’m > so going to video these guys with my iphone and > post it all over freakin’ youtube. Agashi are > middle age guys in Korea. These guys work like > 90hrs a week and it is socially accepted that they > get absolutely sh#t faced in public, wrap their > tie around their head and blow off steam, and have > random women to which they are not married. While > I have not witnessed it in person all the stories > I hear are about these guys getting totally wasted > in subways, passing out in garbage cans, and just > making total asses of themselves in public…but > people just look the other way cause they are the > agashi, and that’s what they do man. > > Being a man in my 30s I of course asked, am I > licensed to behave like an agashi fool too?? And > the answer was yes! It was explained to me, that > actually as a foreigner I can do whatever I want > as I am viewed as a total outsider in their > society. Nobody knows much about foreigners and > so whatever you do is just “oh that must be what > foreigners do”. Imagine the crap I can get away > with, wow. > > Spreadsheet time… bro, 95% of korean men are hardcore alcoholics and a lot of the women are too. It being socially accepted over there isn’t going to help you if you come back to north america with a serious substance abuse problem.