God, I'm such a silly little thing.

 

So! Let's get a head count of how many Koreans there are on this forum, and how many there are currently in Korea!

 

About me:::

 

I'm in Korea at the moment, and will stay here for the next four years, studying Political Science and Linguistics @ Hanyang University. I'm hoping that Pyeong-Chang (where almost all the ski resorts are) will be the winner for the 2010 Winter Olympics, because then I'll have a bigger chance to get picked to get on the Korea Team.

 

Wait.

 

I'm an American citizen.

 

oooohhh...damn. does that mean that I'd be on the american team? wait. they wouldn't even take me.

 

Okay, but enough rambling! :D Let's get all the Koreans in here and talk about how crappy our ski resorts are. :P And if you guys are lucky, I just might organize a snowboarding trip and we can throw snowballs at the skiiers!

 

Who's with me!!!

 

...I think I had too much coffee...

screw the korean resorts. the girls may be prettier, but the snow is better in Japan.

 

 

oooh, harsh words. Spoken like a true american.

 

Relax, chagiya (sp?),  you said yourself that the Korean resorts are crap. 

Scroll down the Asians forum and see how long other threads about korea lasted.   There are more racists than koreans on these boards.

 

You`re a Poli Sci major? Rad. I have a question,

 

So whats up with that crazy-ass bitch Kim Jong?  Is that dude for real?

 

And Phoenix, is that the place that makes tons of fake snow so that you can ride around in the autumn?

Im a meguk but rode at YongPyong over Christmas.  I was warned that Koreans board like they drive, which turned out to be true.  The resort was tremendously overcrowded and was more like bumper cars than boarding.  I did see a few young fellows that were reasonably experienced but nothing like you see in the states.  Maybe the good don't come out on the weekends.  The resorts need to add tons of runs for the people they have.  The snow was pretty light but I was there early so it might get better.  If you go,  go for the kimchi and culture don't make a special trip just to ride.  And yes it seems all the girls are pretty.  I would like to go back but not for the snow.

looks like there aernt too many koreans in this site

Posted by 66jzmstr

Posted by kimchijajonshim
I am Korean, thought I'm new.  Sucks to hear that resorts in Korea suck.  I wanted to peep those a few years down the road.  Ah well, I can always hop over the sea and bug those dirty Japs.

(If anyone Japanese happens to reads this, I didn't actually mean the above epithet as a serious insult or anything.  Although y'all put some WEIRD ass shit on TV and mangas).

If you don't mean it, then don't say it.  And leave the racial slur ("Japs") out of it.  Thanks for informing us of how small-minded you are. 
[Edited by 66jzmstr on 1/30/2007 at 1:57 AM]

meh you guys aren't that much brighter either. Pretty ingorant bunch i must say. japan don't even admit the atrocties and the miseries that they created in asia during WWII. a good majority of people in Japan even thinks that the najing masscre and rest of japan's action in asia is a lie. So some of us don't need to apologize

i brought my board with me when i went to visit my folks in korea last february. dude, i gotta give it up. koreans are fuking hard core. i went snowboarding twice in korea during my 1 month stay. first time, i went to yongpyong with some friends. to be fair, i should mention that we went on a saturday during the winter festival or something so it was even more crowded than normal (according to my friends who live there). i totally understand what olerubbertoe's saying about feeling more like bumper cars than riding. within the first minute on the slopes, i was literally knocked off my feet by 3 different boarders (one was my friend). i thought mountaincreek was crowded but yongpyong was like 10x more crowded than mc which i didn't even think was possible. my night ended when a girl drilled me from behind on the slippery flat area at the bottom. imagine a really wide flat area where all the slopes come together and there's a bunch of lifts that go off in different directions. by night, this flat area turned real slick. you could see it shining like an ice rink and it felt like i was riding a never ending butter box. i managed to get down the slopes without any trouble but must have fallen a gazillion times on this flat area. anyways, when that girl ran into me i thought i broke my butt forreals. i think i may have shed a tear or two. i couldn't even ride, i had to unstrap and walk back to the lodge. it was an awful experience. on the other hand, i thought the resorts, themselves, were really nice. they had a gigantic tv above the life lines which they really didn't need b/c the lines moved pretty fast. they also have these really cool air blowers thing in front of the lodges where you can use a high pressure air blower to clean off your board which i thought was really neat. something interesting i saw was a lot of ppl just unstrap both their bindings and carry their boards on the lifts (maybe that's why they always fall off the lifts over here). even funnier thing is that the area where you get off the lift was sooo flat, i would actually have to push myself off the chairs. lol another weird thing that i noticed was how unpopular burton was over there, yet jeenyus and forum were very common (i think they may even have been the ones they were renting out). second time i went snowboarding was to phoenix, another resort close to yongpyong but smaller and more oriented towards snowboarders. i went with my dad during a weekday the following week so it was much less crowded. it had snowed the night before so a lot of ppl were raving about how great the conditions were but frankly, it was awful. they call us the ice coast but after riding in korea i really know what it feels like to ride on ice. their slopes felt almost too groomed, the snow felt like it was really packed and hard and bumpy. it was especially really difficult for my dad, who hadn't skiied since we used to live in alaska so it must have been a big change for him. we went early in the morning, rode only for a few hours and left as the crowd started to pick up. honestly, i probably could have ridden a lot longer but my dad really looked like he was struggling. i forget, he's getting old. :( yea so overall, my snowboarding experience in korea was not so great but i would probably do it again. :P

EWWWWW

 

PHOENIX SUCKS ASS!!!

 

...and yet I've had a season pass with them for two years, man, I'm lame.

 

so! who's getting ready for this winter?!