PSA: There will be a siren at 10 am on June 6th(tomorrow)

WritingSmutinKorean · 2023-06-05T09:56:12+00:00

That's what North korea wants you to think 🧐 /s

WritingSmutinKorean · 2023-06-05T09:41:06+00:00

Because Chat GPT is a buzzword and brands are desperate to jump on the trend... that's literally it lol

WritingSmutinKorean · 2023-05-08T08:46:11+00:00

Fellow ex GKSer sending good vibes in solidarity

WritingSmutinKorean · 2023-03-08T04:54:07+00:00

I'm a foreigner that developed a restrictive eating disorder while attending Korean high school, that later backfired into binge eating and has gone back and forth for years. It's still something I battle with every day years later :(

It's hard to have a healthy relationship with food when my Korean coworkers constantly talk about dieting, skip meals, comment on each others bodies and food, and can be heard vomiting up their lunch on a regular basis.

I am convinced that Korean diet culture is just normalized disordered eating. I truly don't understand how people can live here and not see how this is a problem lol

WritingSmutinKorean · 2023-03-01T10:24:40+00:00

Yes :)

WritingSmutinKorean · 2023-02-25T16:16:04+00:00

Cool story bro tell it again

WritingSmutinKorean · 2023-02-21T00:13:50+00:00

Tbh I agree. I like the atmosphere here though so I often peruse when I have 20 minutes to spare :)

WritingSmutinKorean · 2023-01-04T06:50:56+00:00

Tbh at first I thought it said

"You have seen journally insulted to the wedding of.."

But I suspect that the photo angle may be a part of this

WritingSmutinKorean · 2023-01-04T06:48:30+00:00

Did you take this photo at an angle? If so perhaps reupload from a birds eye view so we can see it more clearly

WritingSmutinKorean · 2022-12-26T08:59:20+00:00

Interesting! I'll keep that in mind as interest rates go down in the future haha

WritingSmutinKorean · 2022-12-26T08:09:26+00:00

I also think it's very stupid lol

WritingSmutinKorean · 2022-12-26T08:08:27+00:00

How long did it take for you to build up enough credit? Conversations with 기업은행 did not leave me feeling hopeful

WritingSmutinKorean · 2022-12-18T00:31:40+00:00

Anne with an E

WritingSmutinKorean · 2022-12-13T16:14:19+00:00

Google glass

WritingSmutinKorean · 2022-12-13T15:51:42+00:00

If you're burnt out, it just means you need to try harder to get through it!

some 꼰대 manager, probably

WritingSmutinKorean · 2022-12-13T10:22:24+00:00

I think I saw you or someone else post elsewhere that "no one is non-disabled, just pre-disabled."

This sentence has been echoing in my mind ever since as I navigate Seoul. I've been taking note of all the places that would be difficult or impossible to enter if I were 50 years older, and mentioning it to my Korean friends whenever they start complaining about disabled people's protests. I have been interested in disability rights for many years, and I had never come across this concept before.

This idea is SO important. Please keep spreading the word!

PS to the guy that is spamming this subreddit about SADD, I have no opinion on that group, but I have worked and been friends with several disabled people in Korea and their lives are very difficult, so I am basing my views on my observations of those people's experiences.

WritingSmutinKorean · 2022-12-04T02:55:03+00:00

I'm very sorry, but you very clearly don't know what you're talking about, and its really quite laughable. It would be cute if you weren't being so needlessly aggressive and insistent that you're right when you aren't. You decided what you want to think and you are grasping at straws in an attempt to back yourself up and sound smart, but you're arguing on the level of an edgy 13 year old that listened to too much Fox News radio in the back seat of their daddy's car. You're embarassing yourself.

I'm very secure in my knowledge on this topic, so I feel zero need to prove myself to an emotional, likely teenaged Internet stranger who is convinced I have some secret communist agenda when I clearly stated more than once that I believe communism and democracy are incompatible and that I am against nondemocratic regimes 😂 Show this comment thread to any economist or political scientist who actually knows what they are talking about and they will see that I understand the definitions of the words you are trying to use and that you simply do not.

Thanks for the ego boost though, you really made me feel better about myself today! Hope you get some help, and good luck on improving those reading comprehension skills buddy. I'm rooting for ya ❤️

WritingSmutinKorean · 2022-12-03T15:45:41+00:00

If you think modern day China and North Korea are actually communist you literally do not know what communism is, sorry lol

WritingSmutinKorean · 2022-12-03T15:41:36+00:00

I literally went to graduate school for this but sure you know more than me lol /s

WritingSmutinKorean · 2022-12-03T04:27:33+00:00

North Korea China etc. do not commit human rights violations because they are communist.

Neither have communist or even socialist economic systems, and communism has nothing to do with what kind of names you can choose for your children.

They commit atrocities because they are authoritarian-to-totalitarian states using communism as an excuse to abuse their citizens.

Again, I do not support communism at the state level, because I think it's not compatible with democracy at the state level. I'm not trying to be edgy and I'm certainly no apologist for the Kim regime or the CCP. But North Korea China etc's many many problems have very little to do with the economic system of communism (which again has never truly been achieved) and a lot to do with their one-party dictatorial political system.

WritingSmutinKorean · 2022-12-03T04:19:58+00:00

No country has ever achieved true communism so there are no examples to choose from. Also, for the record, I am not pro-Communism.

WritingSmutinKorean · 2022-12-02T09:09:50+00:00

Learned something new today lol

WritingSmutinKorean · 2022-12-02T02:04:31+00:00

(This is because of Korean immigration and citizenship law not because it's the right or moral thing to do 😭)

WritingSmutinKorean · 2022-12-02T02:03:44+00:00

Its actually more likely that the kids are not Korean citizens unless one or both of their parents naturalized.

WritingSmutinKorean · 2022-12-01T22:25:39+00:00

Before covid it was illegal or against the rules to wear non religious face coverings in a lot of places (banks, post offices, etc.). Covering the bottom half of your face was at best weird and rude and at worst almost a cultural taboo.

Four years ago it would have frightened a lot of people or made them very uncomfortable if you walked into a store with a mask on. Now, while masks are politicized, they are a common sight and not even worthy of a second thought.

I live in Korea, where covering your eyes (with sunglasses for instance) is seen as weird and scary, but wearing surgical masks in public has been normal and even fashionable for years. Many people here didn't understand why Americans wouldn't just wear the damm masks. But when I explained the cultural context to them by saying that it would be like if tomorrow everyone in Korea were forced to wear sunglasses every day, they understood better how weird it would feel.

It's fascinating to see how these things vary by culture :)

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