The title of this entry is just because for some reason the constant staring has been getting to me this past week. It really hasn't much up until now. I mean, I stare at other white people, it's understandable that the locals will stare at me. But just recently I've been thinking, "Okay, the novelty has worn off, stop staring, I'm just white. Don't you watch MTV?"
This mild irritation was made even more intense this evening, when a small group of us foreigners were openly stared at by three 20-something Korean guys while eating dinner. Like, serious staring. One of the guys actually turned his chair towards us and scooted forward to openly spectate. We tried not to notice, but it's hard to miss the faces turned at you, even in your peripheral vision. I accidentally made eye-contact with the most brazen of them, and it was the scariest thing. It's like making eye contact with someone you know at the grocery store who you want to avoid.
Speaking of scary things, I had to take evasive maneuvers again on Sunday night when I accidentally made eye contact with a guy who looked to be Pakistani on the subway, and I thought he might be following me. For those who didn't read the whole entry way back in March or whenever it was, I had another Pakistani guy follow me for like 2 hours, trying to engage me in conversation and confessing is affection for me. Again, I'm not being racist, but my coworkers have had the same experience with the Pakistani guys here, and the conclusion is that while they don't appear to be dangerous, they looooove foreign girls, and can't take a hint.
It's been a while since I've updated, and that's partly because my computer's hard drive bit the dust, and I had to wait for it to be replaced. So...yeah. That's that.
Um, I went to Busan again. It was pretty fun on the Saturday that we went, but on Sunday we totally got typhooned.
This weekend we're going to the mud festival, which is exactly what it sounds like. Look forward to pictures.
The next weekend or something I think we're going rafting, and the two girls (my coworkers) who I'm going with are planning on going bungee jumping. I won't be a part of that, except to stand above or below and film their demise.
Finally, I've been watching a lot of Korean music videos on late-night MTV, and I've noticed a trend with the slower, more ballad-like ones. There is a couple, but one or both of them shall die in a gruesome or tragic manner. I'm inserting one of my personal favorites here for your viewing pleasure:
I don't speak Korean, and I'm not an expert on the production of this video or the artist, but from what I can gather, it's the heartwrenching tale of a girl who is possibly slightly mentally retarded, and her narcoleptic boyfriend. Watch as the poor couple struggles to cope with the boy's debilitating disorder, and how his disease ultimately results in his girlfriend's untimely death.
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Funny video, but you totally misinterpret it.
First of all, he isn't narcoleptic, just incredibly lazy. You would think that even a lazy guy could stay awake while playing video games, but that would only be if she hadn't drugged him with her date-rape tea.
You also misinterpreted the ending. Clearly she is not dead here, because you see her in the next scene. He, thinking that she is dead, kills himself by overdose (Romeo and Juliet style). This has a brilliant double-irony. The first is that at the beginning of the video, she thinks he is dead. The second is that he is a lazy bum, not a real man, so he kills himself in a wimpy way- an overdose as opposed to blowing his brains out or hanging himself or jumping in front of a train.
Also, with your teaser for the video, I was expecting/hoping for him to fall from the construction site onto her and have her die that way. Oh well.
even a korean like myself got STARED at while in korean... i think they have an extra sensor that tracks non- nationals...
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