19 Reasons Being Korean Is Truly Awful
By Michael Koh
1. No one famous has ever come from Korea.
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bZkp7q19f0&w=560&h=315]
Do you know of this guy? I bet you don’t.
2. And it totally didn’t take the world by storm.
The real Gangnam Style — highlight of the Player's Night๐ #cypruscup #playersnight #danceoff #gangnamstyle #awesome pic.twitter.com/0KFyPJU9YA
— Katri Mattsson (@_Nokso_) March 8, 2015
When you realize #Psy can ride an imaginary horse better than you. #gangnamstyle https://t.co/eOU6SXwbv6
— Bob Jennings (@bobjenz) March 7, 2015
3. To add insult to injury, Korean food is totally bland.
4. I mean, would you eat this?
5. And no one thinks Korean barbeque is any good.
6. No one.
https://instagram.com/p/zvdBa5jGM7/
7. Like, look at this.
https://instagram.com/p/wup6EVjGIv/
8. Weak-ass barbeque game.
https://instagram.com/p/0GIl8zq8kF/
9. Koreans have no national pride.
Tonight. #koreanpride pic.twitter.com/2M5nBWcA42
— Sweet & Sara (@SWEETandSARA) June 17, 2014
10. Totally uninterested.
1919๋ 3์ 1์ผ, ๋ํ๋ฏผ๊ตญ์ด ์ผ๋ณธ์ ์๋ฏผํต์น์ ํญ๊ฑฐํ๊ณ , ๋ ๋ฆฝ์ ์ธ์๋ฅผ ๋ฐํํ์ฌ ํ๊ตญ์ ๋ ๋ฆฝ ์์ฌ๋ฅผ ์ธ๊ณ ๋ง๋ฐฉ์ ์๋ฆฐ ๋ ์ ๊ธฐ๋ ํ๋ ๋ ์ ๋๋ค
์ฌํด๋ก ์ 96์ฃผ๋ ์ผ์ผ์ ๋ํ๋ ๋ฆฝ๋ง์ธ! pic.twitter.com/YLFoYx2nt9— 14cm์๋น๋ฐ (@14cmsecret) February 28, 2015
11. Because there aren’t Koreans playing sports overseas.
https://twitter.com/Ejaa_/status/575306000363749377
12. None whatsoever.
Ki Sung-Yueng says Swansea City are targeting a hat-trick of Premier League scalps http://t.co/P4mDmJVmVx pic.twitter.com/CHEsMPK6dW
— Swansea Online (@SwanseaOnline10) March 9, 2015
13. The music? There’s absolutely no music scene in Korea.
https://twitter.com/OhMigaaa/status/546675338550329344
14. Seriously.
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdKTgwffmdo&w=560&h=315]
15. Don’t get me started on their TV programs.
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WK5_vM2AS0&w=560&h=315]
16. No one watches them.
โHealerโ #ParkMinYoung thanks fans for birthday wisheshttp://t.co/dm6931Pgew #Birthday #Kdrama #Koreandrama #Healer pic.twitter.com/jVLe4b9Xam
— KpopHerald (@Kpop_Herald) March 5, 2015
17. Because they’re boring.
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1npvub8JfCU&w=560&h=315]
18. Did I mention Koreans don’t drink?
If you like soju, I like you. pic.twitter.com/Gfos1Wfslz
— ุงูููุณ (@AYKAY_) March 8, 2015
ุงููู ูุงุนูุงู Chamisul Soju – ุชุงุฑูุฎ 150302 pic.twitter.com/h6xbEs1pVL
— ๐ค ู ุนุฌุจูู ุงูู ุงูุนุฑุจ (@IUARABFANS) March 2, 2015
19. And can’t forget this thing.
https://twitter.com/zeromoon/status/573529715006251008
How tantalising is this! @simonmayo @BBCRadio2 Korea's staple #Kimchi Swedish beer & BasilSeed&Lychee to wash it down pic.twitter.com/xfe79uNlLD
— Nigel Barden (@NigelBarden) March 5, 2015
Korea is actually a wonderful place. Check it out sometime. Maybe I’ll show you around.