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Ever heard this Korean language joke?

SiEd
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Ever heard this Korean language joke?

Postby SiEd » June 19th, 2008 8:12 pm

하루에 한 명 농부하고 한 명 미국사람 정류장에서 만난다. 버스가 지나 간다. 그리고...

농부님: 왔데...
미국사람: Monday. (뭔데?)
농부님: 버스데...
미국사람: Oh, happy birthday!

ㅋㅋㅋㅋ

John
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Postby John » June 20th, 2008 6:31 pm

That is funny, no I never heard it before.

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Postby hyunwoo » June 21st, 2008 6:51 am

Hahaha. That was funny! :D

And it reminds me of this one!

Husband : 굿모닝~ (good morning)
Wife : 국 ? 미역국 !


(굿모닝 sounded like 국 뭐니 to the wife's ears) :D

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Postby the_haunted_boy » June 23rd, 2008 5:51 pm

Pretty funny, but I had to use my bilingual dictionary for a lot of that.
Is there any particular things that can be classified as 'Korean humor'? I head people use terms like 'American humor' and 'British humor', but what about for Korea?

tormsen
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Postby tormsen » June 23rd, 2008 11:26 pm

A lot of silliness from what I can tell.

Though in the movie scene you see subtle dark humour with intelligence. Just on the TV it's pretty goofy, lowbrow but tame at the same time. Though there are probably layers of subtleties that are lost on me, as there seems to be a lot of jokes involved particularly funny phrases or the use of 사투리.

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Have you heard this one?

Postby Walton » July 22nd, 2008 3:26 am

There is a Buddhist monk out for a walk on a hot day. He sits down to take a rest outside a middle school next to a kid waiting for a bus. He asks the kid how old he is, "학생! 몃 학년이야?" The kid replies that he is in his 3rd year of middle school: "중삼이에요," and then oddly asks the monk the same question. The monk simply murmurs something about being a monk and then rambles about how hot the weather is for 5 minutes. A little while later, the kid was not getting the hint so the monk asked him directly to go get him a cold drink from the machine. "학생, 음료수 줘"

The kid stood up and smacked the monk across the head and said, "니가 중이, 내가 중삼이야!"

Get it? hah hah.

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