Any Koreans here? - PeachParts Mercedes-Benz Forum

Gilly · #1 07-21-2010, 10:22 PM

Anyone here able to read Korean? S Korean, if therei s a difference. Long story, short on sleep

Stretch · #2 07-22-2010, 03:01 AM

Sorry I'm not Korean but from the little I know from a South Korean I met at university years ago the language in the south is changing quite quickly - I guess there is a difference between the north and the south but I doubt it would be a problem for a native of either side of the divide.

layback40 · #3 07-22-2010, 03:34 AM

I doubt if any from the north would be on here. Its too much of a military state.

strelnik · #4 07-22-2010, 10:33 AM

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Originally Posted by Gilly

Anyone here able to read Korean? S Korean, if therei s a difference. Long story, short on sleep

Send me what you need summarized TODAY and I can get it done.

Gilly · #5 07-22-2010, 04:49 PM

So I have time to tell this story.
I was at OHare yesterday (I drive bus there for a living now) and man, I had this older Korean guy come up to me at terminal 5 (International side) who, in broken English asked me if I was going to Champaign/Urbana.
I told him no, but I try to help people, right? So I told him the bus company he needs and he seemed to acknowledge that he knew that's who he needed to find.
So I tell him that this other company operated based on reservations, did he have a reservation with them....no-no, so solly.
So, being the nice guy that I am, I get out a schedule for the other company (I keep some around for such occasions) and hand it to him, and he's getting happier, he knows I'm going to help him.
The other company (believe it or not) has no 800 number, so I get my OWN cell phone and am calling them to get him set up. Find out if they can take him, when it will be there, how much it'll cost, etc. He motions to the pen in my pocket, like he wants to use it, OK fine, give him my pen. I get done with that and he'd written down a phone number, and in broken English says "call daughter, call daughter". OoooKay pal, we'll call your daughter too, so dialed and had him on the phone with his daughter for awhile longer, then it's like "hey, I DO have work to do" (I didn't actually SAY that though, too nice).
So he's all happy and I told him to wait inside until 1230, etc and he goes in all happy.
OK, so 15 minutes later, I am leaving Term. 5 with a few people, and look down in my shirt pocket..ah hell, he's got my pen!
Which most people wouldn't care but its a really meaningful pen to me (Parker pen, made in Janesville WI, until of course the British bought them out, anyways, I wanted that damn pen back!).
So I wheel the bus around the terminal 5 parking lot, hoping he'd be in there in the waiting area, and I lucked out and spotted him right away and he spotted me, and I went over there just sort of joking with him about how he has my damn PEN and he was laughing too and "OH, so SOLLY!" and he give sit back, and reaches in his luggage and said, again in broken English "here here, take one of MINE too!".
So, I don't know if this really is like a place he works for or what it means at all. It is a pretty cool pen, but sort of like what they might give away at, oh I don't know, a bank or something? It has red and black ink, a little tab on each side, one is red and the other black which tells you what color you are selecting. Nice rubbery grip on the end, a nice item for a giveaway type plastic pen.
Gilly

Gilly · #6 07-22-2010, 04:54 PM

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Originally Posted by strelnik

Send me what you need summarized TODAY and I can get it done.

If you can get to it today, fine, but no rush, just curious

aklim · #7 07-23-2010, 12:45 AM

Number isn't going to work here. No area code. For all we know, it might say "For a good time, call 544-8368". Or maybe it is the number to the local Korean Chicken Ranch.

Jim B. · #8 07-23-2010, 12:59 AM

Gilly · #9 07-23-2010, 04:48 AM

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Originally Posted by aklim

Number isn't going to work here. No area code. For all we know, it might say "For a good time, call 544-8368". Or maybe it is the number to the local Korean Chicken Ranch.

kind of what I was wondering..........either that or if it says "Die American Pig"

Gilly

Stretch · #10 07-23-2010, 08:37 AM

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Originally Posted by Gilly

kind of what I was wondering..........either that or if it says "Die American Pig"

Gilly

Transcript of a one sided telephone conversation:-

Er hello I'm an American Pig I'd like to die please...

Yeah?...

Oh you can find me at...

Kuan · #11 07-23-2010, 08:56 AM

I thought it was going to be about a girl.

MTI · #12 07-23-2010, 10:45 AM

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Originally Posted by Kuan

I thought it was going to be about a girl.

Mrs. Swan?

Jim B. · #13 07-23-2010, 01:18 PM

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Originally Posted by Gilly

kind of what I was wondering..........either that or if it says "Die American Pig"

Gilly

I would not be surprised if it said, "WE WON !!! You got beat like a chinese gong!"

strelnik · #14 07-23-2010, 02:35 PM

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Originally Posted by Gilly

If you can get to it today, fine, but no rush, just curious

The guy who does Chinese and Korean here just left, will see him maybe tomorrow if he works on saturday too (Am working all weekend).

strelnik · #15 07-23-2010, 02:58 PM

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Originally Posted by Gilly

kind of what I was wondering..........either that or if it says "Die American Pig" Gilly

Actually it is the name of a church, a Protestant denomination with a name similar to the "Church of the Vision of the Life-giving Spring."

On the web, you can visit at:

http://visionsm21.cafe24.com/index.php

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