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Fun & Humour from Korea

At this site I will tell some jokes and funny tales from Korea. You can find lots of it in the World Wide Web, so just go surfing if you like it.

Here I will just present a few favourites of me. Please feel free to send me some more by E-mail.

Jokes

The Construction Company

There was this Spanish guy, this Korean guy and this Russian guy all working for the same construction company. At the beginning of the day the boss comes out and said to the Spanish guy: "You're in charge of the cement."
Then he said to the Russian guy: "You're in charge of the dirt."
Then he said to the Korean guy: "You're in charge of the supplies."
Then he said: "I'm gonna be back at th end of the day to check on your work. It better be good or you're fired.

So they all went off to get their work done.
At the end of the day the boss comes back to check on their work. He looks at the big pile of cement and says "Good work" to the Spanish guy. Then he looks at the big pile of dirt and says "Good work" to the Russian guy. Then he couldn't find the Korean guy and asks: "Where the heck is the Korean guy?"

All of a sudden, the Korean guy jumps out from behind the big pile of dirt and yells: "SUPPLIES!"

(For all who can't find the joke on it: Koreans make no difference between "r" and "s". So"supplies" and "surprise" is pronounced the same way by most Koreans.)

A Rabbi & a Korean

A rabbi is sitting on a airplane next to a Korean guy. After they have been flying together in silence for a while, the rabbi leans over and says, "You know, I've never forgiven you Chinese for what you did at Pearl Harbor."

The Korean looks shocked and replies: "What the hell are you talking about?!?!? It was the Japanese that bombed Pearl Harbor, not the Chinese. And besides, I'm not Chinese or Japanese, I'm Korean!"

The rabbi says, "Korean, Japanese, Chinese, what's the difference?"

A while later, the Korean sas: "You know I've never forgiven you Jews for sinking the titanic."

Now the rabbi looks confused and mad and says: "What are you talking about? The Jews didn't have anything to do with that! An iceberg sank the Titanic!"

The Korean guy replies: "Iceberg, Goldberg, Greenberg, what's the difference?"

Funny (but true) stories

The Fan-Story (or: Why fans are serious killers)

This is an unbelievable story from Korea, but it's totally true. People believe in it and its almost impossible to convince them of the truth.

The story: Fans can kill you in summer.

You can find this story every summer in the Korean newspapers, as soon as it gets hot. And people will advise you to turn your fan off at night in closed windowless rooms.

If it would just be that ridiculous thing I wouldn't mind. But the best is that they also give you 2 even more ridiculous explanations:

Explanation 1: The "cold" air of the fan is cooling the body that much, that the sleeping person dies.
Comment: I don't think a fan can "cool" the air in a 30°C hot windowless "sleeping box". It just circulates the air, that's all.
Explanation 2: The fan blows the air away from the mouth of the sleeping person and creates a vacuum, there. The person than dies of lack of oxygen.
Comment: Well, this sounds really exciting. The fact is that no fan can can create a vacuum that way.

But fact is also: Most Koreans believe that theory which they already learned from their parents and the newspapers. And every new death revives that theory.

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