Minggu, 05 September 2010

Korean-Mad Part 2

As you may already be aware of, our tiny household is currently being invaded by the Korean language.

There are Korean labels all over the apartment.


This morning, the aircon servicing men came by for the quarterly follow-up. The leader was an Indian foreigner worker, whilst his subordinate looked PRC and didn't speak much, so I simply assumed that he was from the PRC.

As they were going about their thing, the 'PRC' guy kept staring at the labels around the apartment. I thought he was trying to read them to figure out what they meant.

On their way out of the apartment, I said "Thank you", and the 'PRC' guy replied in Korean?!!

BM: Thank you!
Guy: Gomabwayo!
BM: Eh? You are Korean?
Guy: Yes.
BM: Hee Hee... Annyeonghi Gaseyo!
Guy: Annyeonghi Gyeseyo!

He must be thinking how crazy I was... labelling everything at home... from the door, to mirror, to fridge, to chair, to photo frames, to 'Good Fren's standee... =))

I didn't realise that MOM gives approval for the hiring of Korean foreign workers. That's kind of 1980s, isn't it?

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