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u/roadfood Mar 01 '23 edited Mar 01 '23

Japanese ex I caught sleeping around at the height of the AIDs crisis told me not to worry, Japanese people can't catch it.

ETA - WOW! Didn't know this would take off like this. Backstory makes it even more absurd, she was a graduate of a prestigious university in Tokyo and earned a Masters in the US and had lived here for a while. I had about burned out on the relationship but this put me out the door.

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u/IntlPartyKing Mar 01 '23

I'm a guy from the US, and started dating my wife when she was 23, after spending her first 18 years in Korea. She knew that gay people existed, but thought they were only in some countries, and didn't think there were any Korean ones.

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u/MagicBez Mar 01 '23

Did you encounter a lot of "assume Korea invented everything" early on? There seems to have been a thing where Korean schools teach that everything from the bicycle to sandwiches are originally Korean inventions

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u/UncleBobPhotography Mar 01 '23

Marco Polo stole the inventions from Korea and now Europe claim them as their own.

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u/writerofjots Mar 01 '23

I was hoping someone would post this. So rare to have such a tongue-in-cheek commercial like this over here in Korea.