Comments by "HKim0072" (@HKim0072) on "Asian Boss" channel.

  1. Naw, Korean people have short legs.
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  2.  @chipsm1542  My ex was 160cm and 47-48 kg and she looked normal. Korean bodies are naturally slim, so not much hips. She didn't diet. She only drank alcohol occasionally. :My sister for a long time was 165cm and 50-51kg.
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  3. Say your blessings every night. Being adopted at 7 is a miracle.
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  4. Previously well off girl (parents have a business) with the styled haircut is being the most accurate.
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  5. That’s just the Japanese style of reserve-ness. Japanese people don’t wear their emotions on their sleeves like Americans.
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  6. It's not even close. The closest comparison would be US 2009 when the unemployment rate was going up. By 2013, the unemployment rate had been a steady decline.
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  7. Korean has a orphanage system where each orphanage gets a stipend per child. They have to leave when they finish high school. Mostly likely, they'll have pretty tough lives (relatively). No adults to lean on and will have to make it on their own. Very few will get into good schools as they didn't go to the hagwons when younger (but they would be the same as lower class families as well). I doubt any orphanage would allow filming or interviews since they are minors.
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  8.  @Meonium  Being pale is a viewed as a positive in East Asian countries. Still has a subtle meaning of upper class as you aren't working outside and getting tan.
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  9. @ Yeah, that's not how things work, but ok. You can't use American salaries and Chinese expenses as comparison points. You realize economists have metrics for this right? Even if you don't have an economic background, you can use % of salary for each country.
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  10. Now, this is where it becomes very silly. What country? Has your friend been in contact with anyone from China?
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  11. umm, I was shocked that no one was there. I'm still a little shocked that everyone didn't go to the airport to see her off.
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  12. Welcome to my childhood as a Korean growing up in the states.
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  13. lol, that's not how it works. Even in work from home / remote, global companies need a regional hub and offices. HK served as a global Asia base for many international companies. Many of them have moved to Singapore.
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  14. The fear isn't that this is a global virus, its that China will need to effectively shutdown the country for months and bring down the global economy. Additionally, the Chinese government doesn't have the best track record for transparency and honesty, so who knows the real statistics. If China starts shutting down other cities for a longer period of time, you can surmise that the Chinese government is far more worried and basically lying about death / transmission rates.
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  15.  OM G  Beauty is all about marketing. Obviously, it's subjective. But, the mass appeal via Kpop and Kdramas is data that would refute your statement.
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  16. Dude - it's 100% natural to comment on adoption stuff. I've been doing it for ages. Unscientifically, there is a dichotomy between male / female and finding their biological parents. Seems like it leans heavily towards the female side. Years ago, I had the same feelings about my biological family. Didn't care. Didn't want to meet them. And it was fun telling people that I was left on the street as a baby with my name and birthday in my pocket. While those were my feelings, my biological family searched out for me. Went to Korean Social Services then to the adoption agency and then to my adoptive parents. We never moved. Never changed our phone number, so it was very easy to contact my adoptive parents. It probably messed my life up a bit (the chaos of having another family), but it's pretty hard to avoid if it's placed in front of you. Korea is fun if you speak Korean. Much harder if you don't.
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  17. Everyone has stereotypes imbedded into their background. Not everyone is racist though.
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  18. The biggest difference I've noticed is how the new generations have grown. First visited Korea in the early '00s. I'm 5' 10" and felt more tallish than average. In the States, I felt more average to shortish. (Except, don't go to the upper Midwest. I felt like a midget visiting Chicago.) The last few times at the airport (2019) I felt pretty average. Lots of dudes were way taller than me as well.
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  19. WTF? What about her adopted sister? And her biological siblings??? I feel so unsatisfied with the ending. Haha, I cried more about this video than when I’ve been with my biological family.
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  20. lol, looking at 1 quarter is silly. HK is just getting over 2019 levels in '24. Basically +2% higher than 2019 from a GDP perspective. Singapore is +14% higher than 2019.
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  21. It’s just a cultural thing. Koreans have “straight” teeth, but tend to cover our mouths as well.
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  22.  @Cuupi  I am jealous of your classmate. It's my biggest regret I have of my parents raising me was not learning Korean at a young age. As an adult, I've tried 3 different times: college class and 2 different private tutors. Total failure as I suck at language. If I knew Korean, it would have made things a lot easier for me as I went to college.
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  23.  @iwan-wr7gn  Well, you are half-Korean. Perhaps, introduce him slowly with food, kpop? and other Koreanish things. If he's open to that, maybe sharing a few of these videos would be the next step.
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  24. As an American, these are the Chinese people (Cantonese) that populated most of the US pre-2000. It's what I'm most familiar in any tangential or close relationships.
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  25.  @canto_v12  It's terrible for HK. That was incremental people and money coming in. Sure, some of the mainland companies will enter the market, but I'm guessing many will commute from China and not live in HK. Expat packages are very generous with western international companies ie housing allowances.
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  26. lol, and China isn't hyperinflated?
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  27. I lived in Daegu and there was a teenager passed out on one of the tables outside a convenience store. No one bothered her. (It was night time in a somewhat nice residential neighborhood.)
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  28. Yuck. Double yuck. No one goes up to a white person and the first thing that comes out is "What are you?" Are you Chinese? No. Are you Japanese? No. Then what are you?
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  29. A lot more open minded than my Korean peeps.
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  30. Even most Asian guys that grow up in the states tend to prefer Asian spouses / SOs.
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  31. Because the majority of the country is white.
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  32.  @ellenakerblad7157  I think you are seeing a lot of TV stories / docs now about Chinese adoptees because of the sheer numbers, but more from a 3rd person perspective. The Korean adoptee voice has gotten established as older adoptees have taken the reins and laid down grass root organizations. That's why I said 5-10 years. Most likely as the Chinese adoptees hit their late 20s-30s. But yes, it's very hard for an adoptee as a teenager to genuinely figure out their feelings about adoption. Being a teenager is tough by itself. My Korean birth family waited until I was mid-20s to look for me. Not sure if that was a bad or good thing to wait.
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  33. @ So frustrating. Using a American tourist is the exact opposite of a proper example. A correct example would have an American worker get hired by local Chinese firm doing the same job. You really think union car workers in the US have a worst standard of living than car workers in China?
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  34. @ Interesting. My only point is a foreigner in China with a stable "westernized" income and no mortgage won't be feeling the same effects as a local who owns a property with a family. Considering the dude didn't give any details, I'm making assumptions.
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  35. @ ahh, the big guy mantra of "what's wrong with falling prices". Politely, have a good day and I'll stop responding. If you really think that a -50% collapse in asset prices is a positive to the economy, I honestly don't know what to say.
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  36. Always have to remember, but these are restrained PC opinions.
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  37. That dude needs to stop touching his mask. Masks are annoying and aren't a great fit sometimes, but you need to be cognizant of "automatic" things like that.
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  38. Korea was a very very poor country until the 1980s.
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  39. The #1 airline hostess will get married. And fast.
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  40.  @AgentJ2007  Ginger seems to be on the extreme level. 2 things happen in Korea: (1) most people don't have cars to commute to work ie they have to walk to public transportation. (2) The diets are mostly vegetable / soup based. While famous for meat restaurants in the states, people don't eat like that daily.
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  41. Yeah, because "western cultures" are welcoming as well. NOT. I grew up exactly like these girls in the states as an Asian.
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  42. Actually, you don’t need the majority to change laws. A determined minority can push for change. Korean adoptees can get dual citizenship in Korea now because of a few determined people lobbied the government.
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  43. I think the dichotomy here is that most countries view pageants as a quasi-business. Seems like she jumped into the pageant with a lot less training then others.
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  44. Dude - I think it's more common than you realize: 1st generation has issues 1.5 generation has issues 2nd generation has issues Hapas have issues Adopted from Asian countries have issues.
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  45. Maybe it will change or sports are different. Japan has accepted Naomi Osaka, Rui Hachimara and Yu Darvish as their own.
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  46. The girl seems very “American”. Although she said she relates to her Japanese side, her mannerism are totally American.
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  47. lol, made this comment before I watched the mannerism part.
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  48. The accommodations were a bit small, but not much worse than my dorm at my university in the states. We used to call our dorm the projects. Our rooms were a bit larger, but 2 people had to share the room.
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  49. Remember, this is a country where zillions of motels and room salons are prevalent. Korea is only outwardly (publicly) conservative.
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  50. lol, housing prices have dropped by -25% to -50% in value. 70% of the Chinese public's wealth is tied to real estate.
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