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I have been a fan of Korea for a long time now, ever since I was a non-teenager. Their culture and everything just blew my head off, in a good way, haha. It’s always interesting to read about it’s culture, what’s new in the music industry, sit back and watch their drama’s. Though, it’s always been a hard time for me to ever meet a Korean, because I’m surrounded by..anti-korean everything… My story is a bit rough, but maybe you will all be able to help me. I am a sixteen-year-old teenager turning seventeen in October, I have a very big attraction to anything Asian, not just Korean, although, everyone around me thinks I’m being weird by liking it. I get bullied in school just by listening to Korean(or any Asian) music, this boy even made fun of me for even listening to such “garbage” in front of the whole class, and they just laughed, and nobody wanted to make me feel better, NOT even my best friend, her excuse is that she doesn’t find Asian cultures attractive and she doesn’t want to be around people like me. One day when I was out with my friends, like normal teenage girls we were talking about boys (normal, huh?) my friends started talking what types they like and they asked me, I’ll be honest, I was very nervous at first to admit it, but I swallowed the fear and admitted that I find Korean guys very, very attractive, as I expected they only laughed at my face, I felt so devastated that I couldn’t hang out with them anymore, I just ran off home in tears. My family doesn’t give me any support either. My Mom is very racist towards Asians, especially Koreans since she thinks their music is “bad”, something I’ll never understand. I once won a raffle on a site where they shipped posters of a certain K-POP group, which happened to be one of my favorite bands, when I got the poster, I felt so blessed, so accomplished, I loved it, I hung it on my wall above my head, but when my parents saw it along with my sister (who only laughed how stupid they looked), my parents took the poster and through it out, ripping it in pieces, my Mom kept repeating that if I’ll ever bring a Korean boy into the family, I’m no longer her daughter…Kind of hurts, huh..? Having that said to you by your own mother…but I got over the poster. And even till this day I keep my interests the same, and my urge for Korean music grows stronger and stronger. My question for you is that, maybe you could help me find a Korean friend for me? Or suggest how can I meet a person like that? Even though it sometimes looks like the world is against my interests, I would really like to meet someone who I admire so much, who I think his culture is amazing. It doesn’t need to be dating, no no, I would like someone there for me, to understand what I like and just be alright if I like it. Could you tell me how could I find a Korean like that? When my town is empty when it comes to Koreans?
Haha, just by typing this out and looking at the past events that happened to me brings a tear in my eye… Thank you guys so much for helping me!
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Welcome. We are sorry you get so sad. We will try to answer your question quickly.
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You can find answer to your question here. https://lovingkorean.wordpress.com/2012/06/20/qa-i-dont-fit-in-help-me-find-a-korean-to-connect-to/ We hope you can find what you are looking for.
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Hello, I stumbled across this website while looking up info on dating a Korean guy.
I have started dating a wonderful Korean guy who is my coworker at a restaurant I work at. The first date was so wonderful. He baked for me, took me out for a movie, the whole she-bang. He insisted on buying a few things for me on the date. That’s fine but I really don’t want him to feel like he has to. The next date that we have set up, he’s informed me that he’s going to rent out an entire restaurant so it’ll just be the two of us there. I am flattered, really but that’s so over-the-top and I don’t want him to throw-away money on me. Is this a cultural thing or is this just him?
By the way, I’m a 19 American girl and he’s a 27 year old S. Korean, if that makes any difference. Thanks
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Welcome. Thank you for your question. We hope we will be able to help and answer soon.
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You can find the answer to your question here https://lovingkorean.wordpress.com/2012/06/18/qa-do-korean-guys-go-over-the-top-on-dates/
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Me and my hubby, love the Korean culture and would like to know more about it, also the language, and people. Is there a site where we can chat with native Koreans who might want to do a language exchange or just want to know more about America?
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Did you have problems using http://www.interpals.net ? If you remember it’s the site we wrote about in our https://lovingkorean.wordpress.com/2012/01/18/how-to-meet-south-koreans/
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we tried it but didn’t have much luck finding many Korean’s to chat with … people from Turkey, Istanbul…lol other places…we will try again! :)
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Try the “search” function. Click on the [+ country] and choose “Korea, South”. I just tried it and there were 500+ results.
Or you can try the “language exchange” function and under “I am learning…” select Korean. That way I also had 500+ search results.
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hi i have two questions.
1.) What does koreans think about the fact that we (europeans) find them attractive?
2.) Do korean ppl even know that they’re attractive to european ppl?-
Hi, thank you for your questios. We will try hard to answer it quickly. In the meantime, we hope you will find something interesting to read here.
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Hello Kattie. Welcome. :)
I checked out your blog, it is really cute. I liked the letter he left in your laptop and how you chatted on Facebook.
Of course you can put our blog on your list, we would be honored!
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Hi Oegukeen.. Its very nice to read your blog and advice here, so I think its okay to share my story with a Korean guy to you so maybe you can help me to solve my problem.
I am Chinese girl, born and stay at Indonesia. 21 y.o.
I just visited South Korea last week and I love that country so much.At Korea, I met a guy. He is 26 y.o. I am not a person that can fall in love at first sight. So at the first time we just meet at the place I stayed (he works there) and nothing happen between us on the first day. At the second day, I had nothing to do so I just sit near the front desk; play with my phone and then we started a conversation.
He told me about anything interesting in Korea and about the army service (he just finished his army service).He helped me to search anything I want to know about Korea, and he also asked about my life and others. And I started to like him. He is tall, tough yet cute, smart, and can speak english very well. Then I asked him if I can call him “oppa” and he said yes. I’m so happy because it is the first time I can call “oppa” to someone. We already become friend on facebook and we also took picture together.
His friend knew that I like him and always tease me. But I never had courage to tell him about my feeling since I just know him for 3 days and I am a shy person.
At the last day, I even didn’t have courage to chat with him because everytime I look at him, my face turns red and he also didn’t ask me first. So we just chat for a while.When I almost went to the airport for going back to Indonesia, I push my courage and said ” bogoshipeulkoyeyo” means “I’m gonna miss you” to him, and he replied ” I’m gonna miss you too” . It makes me very happy although this is our farewell and he never know my feeling.
After I came back, the day after, I just check my facebook and what a surprise that he REMOVED me from friend list at facebook! It makes me shocked because I didn’t send him anything, just tagging the photo on facebook. Is he mad with me? But I didn’t do anything wrong to him, I even didn’t send anything to him. And it makes me sad and confuse until now. Should I forget him, or just send him a message to ask why?
If you can give me advice, I will be very happy. Thanks before. God bless :)
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Hi Izumee. Thank you for liking our blog, it makes us very happy :)
We will answer your question as soon as we answer the ones that were asked before. Hope it won’t take long.-
Thank you for your patience. You can find answer to your question here https://lovingkorean.wordpress.com/2012/06/09/qa-oppa-removed-me-from-facebook-help/
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