"Daniel Paik" <uctt@soda.csua.berkeley.edu> wrote in message
news:bd7b6t$i25$1@agate.berkeley.edu...
> In article <AbPIa.163651$h42.14122@twister.nyc.rr.com>,
> min10011 <min10011@hotmail.com> wrote:
> >> i'd agree.  well over 50% of the koreans above the age of 40 that i
have
> >> met in korea use the term "il bon nom" when talking about anyone
> >> japanese...could be a japanese pitcher on tv, could be a japanese movie
> >> star, whatever.  it's not "oh that il bon saram"...it's almost always
> >> "ah...he's an il bon nom huh?"
> >
> >The over 40's you've met in Korea would be mostly your family members I
> >suppose?  They sound like some pretty rough and uneducated people.
>
> nah...usually the cab drivers.  the owner of a small restaurant that
> talks to you while he's watching the baseball game on tv.  the barber
> who sits around watching tv while waiting for customers, etc.

Okay, Dan, then what about your family members over the age of 40?  Or is
their mentality pretty much in line with those cabbies, barbers, and
small-time restaurateurs you met?

> in other words...guys like you.

I'm in my 30's.  With that complex wit of yours, you're what? mid-teens?