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Anonymous asked in TravelAsia PacificKorea · 10 years ago

about "korean wannabes"?

so there's this irish american girl at my school & she's like overly obsessed with kpop & anything to do with korea. She like forces her parents to buy her korean food, korean magazines, & anything korean. like enthusiasm, respect, and love for a nation/certain ethnicity is great, but it gets to a point where she's overly obsessed.. maybe she wants to be korean, i get that, but seriously this is kind of offending !

she's going around using korean words & she doesn't even know the slightest meaning of them

she tries to correct the korean kids at church about their dialect & words ? like how are you going to correct korean people on the way we speak if you don't know what the korean words mean?!

she claims she can write korean, but in reality it's just a bunch of swirls & weird transformations of the american alphabet on paper, and she "claims" that she can read korean too, but when we asked her to read a sentance she said " wong tong ling pow bing bong jee." & when we tried to correct her again she said she was right & that we were all wrong and jealous? like i think that's so offensive!

but what's really been irking me about her is how she's saying "omg i wanna be a korean kpop idol so bad guys!!"i asked her why and she said quote: "to be able to date all the korean boyband singers like superjunior" she said that she's not going to learn korean because she already "knows it" and that there going to automatically accept her because she was american and a super kpop fan?!

like are you serious? i get that there are SOME kpop fans who what to be singers for somewhat of the same reason but then there are real people who actually want to become singers because they want to create great music and have fans who support them all the way. it just gets me mad that she thinks she can become an "idol" just like that & how she thinks she better than the rest of the people who want to become singers because she's american and claims is an "expert" at anything korean.

what would you do?

what do you think of her?

what are your opinons?

Update:

@Tala's Choice

oh my god you have to look it up & listen to it, i'm sure you'll fall in love with it lmfao!

some popular groups are like superjunior, girl's generation, infinite, MBLAQ, ukiss, ZE:A, 4minute, kara, brown-eyed girls, TVXQ, SHINee, and BIA4

just some suggestions♥

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  • Anonymous
    10 years ago
    Favorite Answer

    ... -.-"

    ... 미친 여자... -.-"

    ... Tell her to go back to Ireland.

  • 7 years ago

    Well, im a K-pop fan myself... but I'm not obsessed as she is.. I mean yeah you can go to tge point of liking their culture and shizz but not that much..

    For me, alot of people mistake me for a Korean.. (Im half asian)

    The only reason I got into Kpop was that since childhood I was surrounded by alot of koreans, so i kinda adopted their fashion,make up style,and language..

    But I dont boast about knowing it,, In fact Im even proud that im western hahahaha XD

    She probably doesnt know how much some koreans look up to westerns... Tsk Tsk...

    Anyway~ Best way to do is tell her to shut the fu** up XD or in korean saaaaay 닥쳐 씨발년아! (dak-chyeo ssi-bal-nyeon-ah) oooorrr just ignore her and forget she is even there!~

    Source(s): Grew up with alot of Koreans..
  • Anonymous
    7 years ago

    Wow... This girl needs a reality check... I love Kpop music, and the Korean culture, but I don't claim to know everything about it. I speak few words of Korean, and I am still learning. She definitely gives subtle Kpop fans a bad name..

  • 10 years ago

    Hey syl_ulzzang,

    I get what you mean. I live in Korea now and when I go overseas people always ask

    about Korea and how awesome everyone/everybody is.

    The fact is that Kpop and the Korean wave representation of Korea is propaganda (which really is - funded by the government.)

    Most Koreans and Korea is not like the way they present it.

    That being said I would say let your friend enjoy the Korean 'grass is always greener' wave that's taken a hold of her.

    Just be there for her when she faces the disappointment the same way you are there for her now.

    Dan

    Source(s): www.Korea-Dating-Tips.com
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  • ?
    Lv 4
    5 years ago

    It's probably best to correct them and then just grin and bear it. One of the more annoying habits of people unfortunately. On the other hand there is still some degree of privacy acceptable among people who don't know each other well so if they become too nosy you are well within the norms of Filipino social protocol to sidestep and if they are insistent simply shut them down. If it really bothers you that much being mistaken for Korean maybe you should try looking Japanese, Chinese, or whatever. Wear a cap with the Japanese flag, an I *heart* HK or SG shirt, or if you are desperate Hello Kitty memorabilia—*joking*. If you are American speak with a very distinct American twang.

  • Anonymous
    6 years ago

    Wow...to be honest it sounds like she is just disrespecting the Korean culture, it's more then just Idols. I, myself am a white girl, but I've also been learning Korean for about a year originally just I could pronounce the food names when you went into Korean restaurants (^_^;) but then you get this passion for learning about Korea, the idols and kdramas are meaningless it's all about the country itself....if I was Korean or now if some chick who probably can't read even 안영하세요 tries to correct me on my grammar, I would flip...I would hate to be in your position. She obviously thkn

  • 10 years ago

    I would just plain ignore her. Posers are bitc*es.

    I hate people like her. I think that she is just too obsess with the culture, and the music.

    They won't accept her just because shes American in fact Korea lets their music out but others can't get in and its tough. Super K-Pop fan? If your Asian they'll give you a chance. T.O.P of BIG BANG was obese (I love him!) but highly talented. YG said something like "We're sorry blah blah Idol band lose weight and try again." I'm Asian myself if some Irish kid (No offence) tells me I speak my language wrong ,which I have been speaking all my life, I would be pissed. To be honest I feel sorry for her parents. 300,000 people audition for being a trainee maybe 60 could become one. If she was an expert say "bang-gwikkwida" (means fart ;)) Ask her what it means. If she is wrong then obviously she is a poser

    Wong tong ling pow bing bong jee? ROFL!

  • Anonymous
    10 years ago

    Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah. She sounds like the worst wannabe ever. Hope she'll grow over it. Her thoughts are so childish. I almost broke my pen when I saw this part: and she "claims" that she can read korean too, but when we asked her to read a sentance she said " wong tong ling pow bing bong jee."

    Seriously? o_____o' I just.. feel bad for her parents.

  • ?
    Lv 7
    10 years ago

    I'd ignore her.

    I think she is delusional or very immature (from your description)

    I never hear of kpop before - now I'm curious.

    wong tong ling pow bing bong jee - LOL

    Edit: oh my; I'm a little old to get into the kpop music scene, but I certainly enjoyed being brought up to what is current in this generation of K youth. The music is high-energy, lively beat......made me smile to watch and listen. Thanks for the music lesson. XD

  • Anonymous
    10 years ago

    Maybe she is a sociopath and not in a funny way like she could be mentally affected by the Kpop stuff and develop a disorder. So just let her be and ignore her. Just agree with some stuff and if she goes off on you, I recommend you to literally just walk away if you can.

  • 10 years ago

    I would simply ignore her. And as Melanie said, get the Korean people to shun her. XD That would be quite the entertainment.

    She's obviously an attention whore that needs to get knocked off her pedestal. Correcting people on their OWN language? Like, seriously? Yeah, she needs to get a fist to the face.

    Giving us normal kpop fans a bad name! D:<

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