This is probably random but I just wanted to share. We were fund-raising money to buy warm jackets for children in mountainous region of Nghe An province, since you know, it gets really cold in the winter up there and poor children don't have jackets to stay warm. And some Korean students stopped by and made some donation. I was pretty touched since up until now, all the donators have been Vietnamese students and teachers. When we approach a foreigner, they usually just don't listen and walk away, probably because they can't understand English and their Vietnamese is broken. Many say they just simply don't care about people of Vietnam. But some Korean actually stopped and made donation despite the fact that their Vietnamese is as broken as other foreign students and I was pretty touched that they cared. Thanks. I just want to share this. Have a nice day.

Was that you? Now I have to skip meals for two days but it's okay.

What program are the Korean students usually in? Have you ever met a Korean student who speaks fluent Vietnamese?

Donating warm clothes to mountain children, good. Japanese asking me to donate for earthquake six months after, just because they see me reading manga, and give me some bull$hit story that $5 can support a child for a week -- $5 for starving Japanese children? really?? -- BAD.

Why dont u donate your plane ticket money to the kids,that can buy them a lot of clothes.LOL.And you can stay in vietnam forever.

I have. Her Vietnamese blows mine out of the water lol. May see her in a few months.

It could be either that her Vietnamese is really good or your Vietnamese is just very poor.

You are so retarded, dumbo jumpo.

Whats ur problem?But im gonna let this one go because youre vietnamese which sucks so this is my charity for you.lol.

Why would they study in Viet Nam if they don't like it?

Why are there so many foreign students anyway? I love Viet Nam as much as the next person but I admit the education system sure as hell isn't "world renown"

I'm sure there are plenty of better places to get your education. The only reason someone would choose to study there is if they actually like the country and/or people.

People make no sense.

he's half chinese..you can take him

Perhaps they know something that you don't know.

Half chinese my @$$.

yeah socal ain't half chinese there is no such thing as chinese in vietnam

people from vietnam are all viet

In your opinion. need to prefix that, you know.

so hence forward any hoa from vietnam that becomes successful then it all because of viet food

he said it in a post a long time ago. what's your attitude with viets hm? If you don't like us then gtfo of viet chat. But at the end of the day you can do wHATEVER THE fu-k YOU WANNA DO

doublemint thinks that those viet that claims to be half chinese are just east asian wannabe

and yet his chinese comrades would go and claim any famous chinese-viet as their own

I don't know. I just see quite many of them here. Oh just several days before, I saw some Korean booth on my campus with Vietnamese girls dressing up in Hanbok and passing out fliers. It's Korean culture week or something I guess. Yea for several days, I saw Vietnamese wearing colorful Hanbok walking around campus, it looked prettier than I thought. I thought Hanbok was rigid and not flowy, but the ones the students here wore looked pretty soft and flowy.


Not really. Many of them come here to study for business. Their companies are working with Vietnamese and they need people who can speak and understand Vietnamese or something like that.

lol.Ive never seen anyone do that.
And I was just talking about Socal.Of all people u guys should know what a liar he is.

I rather thank you for remembering and sharing.
I really hope Korea and Vietnam understand each other and will develop a great friendship.

PS
Btw, you resemble Goo Hara who is member of KARA (Korean girlgroup), haha. She is famous for her beauty.
You can see her on my signature pic. she is second one.

Actually... It's both haha. She had to teach me some words.

I think most of them aspire to be regional experts for business or diplomacy. I know at least two Korean high schools that teach Vietnamese as a 3rd foreign language and several Korean universities have Vietnamese programs. If they are serious, they will have to study in Vietnam for some time.

I was pretty surprised to see how many foreign students there are on this campus too. But it used to be a foreign language college so it got connection with many universities from around the world, we got people from Canada, US, Korea, Thailand, Laos, Cuba, especially China. Japan too. Oh I've only met one Japanese student here so far and he left a huge impression on me. I was at the grocery store of our school and I saw this guy bending his head to the cashier girl and displayed great respect to her. I couldn't hear what they talked about, but before he left, he bent his body to salute the cashier girl again. I was amazed at the respect he displayed to the cashier girl. We Vietnamese wouldn't do that. I'm wondering whether this is common among Japanese.

You should try to get one of the non Asian foreign students to try dog meat.

For the lulz of course.

It is XG we r talking about.
She will never be in a dog meat restaurant

Actually most of my friends went to dog meat restaurant once, including the white dudes. One of the white guys wrote on his facebook, "Tell your dogs they taste good" after coming back from eating dog meat

But yea, I would never eat dog meat. There's an outdoor market near here with many dog meat stands and I can't even look at them. It's horrible.

^ I think eating dog as well as to abstain from eating dog is up to individual choice. People shouldn't criticize one another for what they eat or not eat.




Bowing 5~15 degrees from the waist is a common display of respect even at a convenience store. This bow is casual and used when seeing some one you know, Thanking someone lightly, at the office etc...

bowing 20~45 degrees would be too much. to bow to that extent at a 7-11 would look weird and out of place.
this is the common formal bow used to show respect. Meeting elders, the bow the store clerks show to their customers, Thanking someone for a nice gift. Geisha often bow in this range.

bows of 90 degrees are extreme cases. It is one level above begging. I've seen this when girls meet her fiance's parents for the first time. At funerals. In business situations were a company/person really really needs the help of another company/person.

Begging, sitting in seiza, bending forward until head touches ground. this is extreme and can be considered humiliating depending on the situation. Uses: "please don't take my house, give me one more week to make my payment!", "Please, let me marry your daughter! I beg of you!"