Love ya Simon n Martina mostly love yur channels keep it up ^_~
I'm a brown skin african from sudan with long curly black hair ... I'm 5.3 which makes me sooooooooo short in ma society ... but when I went to the middle east the majority of ppl would point at me as tall ..so I was like WHAT THE HELL!!!!... I wonder how would it be in Korea and other far eastern countries XD
I was walking through a mall in Seoul a few years ago and this group of middle schoolers were all staring and pointing at my bleach blonde hair, and then this guy working at a theme park asked if he could take a picture with me lol. I just thought it was cute :)
I'm an American Korean and I dislike how many Americans who have visited Korea are like, OMG Koreans are so racist, and I experience racism in America everyday (racism as in treating me different,but not in the negative way). It bothers me how SOME (not all i know) Americans claim to not be racist and then call Koreans or other Asians racist. This video was FABULOUS. thank you for clarifying the Korean view on foreigners. (we actually like foreigners. we just find it hard to approach them lol)
@TheMidno Damn it, YT! Sry, but if u're wondering y u have a thumb down, it's b/c I clicked it by accident. Be4 it used to be easy to change such mistakes, but now I can't
@Lyvetacus bullshit. I'm white and i love spicy food: been to korea, india, sichuan so i experienced all kinds of asian spicy food. i hate it when they make food milder just coz they see i'm white
This is not from Korea but I went to Japan on a date with a guy who asked if my blue eyes were contact lenses. "Uhm.. no.." "Eh?.. *long stare*" I thought it was adorable.
I love the part when Simon says, "Did I just experience racism? Inconceivable." That was a classic look when the camera zoomed up. Jeez, you two are a hoot.
i have red hair and i went to japan and when i first met my host sister she was like 0.o, "can i touch it?" i was like um yes, if you really want. haha i think it's cute
@believersnevrdie That happened to me when I went to Shanghai too.. several times actually. I have kind of really long blonde wavy hair (reaching my butt)
Oh, also, this was where someone told me I was tall for the first time in my life x) I'm under average tall in Scandinavia...
@AisucreamCUBE LOL! My friend actually did that. He was five when he moved from Russia to Chicago. The first time he saw a black kid, he walked up and rubbed the boy's curly hair.
@jungyew LOOL I'm not black tho, I'm brunette. Actually, my skin color is a little yellow, but I'm not Asian. I REALLY DON'T KNOW WHERE DID I CAME FROM LOL
@AisucreamCUBE If I am with you people in NY they all believe I am from asia, others from the Philippines and so on so I say no I am hispanic but even in my own country people don't believe me when I say I am actually from here... So I wonder if I go to Korea would I be accepted or be rejected, lol, I guess I will be rejected too... This was really funny...
i took a korean class and my teacher was an older korean lady, but she wasnt rasict grandma like at all. she was so sweet and she always was kind and accepting to all they students no matter their race or if they were overweight. so dont worry there are many non-racist ajumas out there too! :)
i am going to university in korea and was worried about this. i am caucasian but have dark brown hair and dark eyes. I am hoping i dont get noticed as much apart from my height and skin colour :)
When I went to SK me, I often experienced some racist moments like they said. I had a taxi driver kick me out of his car in pouring rain because he found a korean customer, an old man yell at me to go back to my country when I asked for directions, just to name a few! LOL But yeah the new generation is quite nice and very open to foreigners but I found the "racist grandmother" was very common xD
I've lived in America all my life so I've never felt what its like to be the minority. As long as they don't hate me or anything, I wouldn't have a problem with it.
I feel like this kind of discrimination (?) is more common in Asian countries more so than in the western/European countries.
@FullMoon272 I KNOW! I chose Korea for an exchange program and now i'm like "OH MAI GAWWWD, WHY DIDNT I CHOOSE RUSSSIAAAA?!" I'm still excited to experience Korea though. I've never been to Asia ^^
I think it's just curiosity... a lot of women in korea wanted to take pictures with my cousin,she was 3 years old and her hair is blonde and her eyes are blue, and everyone told me that she had big round eyes and for make me understand they made circles with their hands on their eyes.
even if she was sleeping in her baby buggy some people took off her blanket to see her. it was creepy sometimes...I mean asian babies are cute too stop bothering my cousin
I live on an island where the majority of people are of MOSTLY African or East Indian ancestry and if you're any other race (especially white), you're going to get stared at A LOT. But you definitely won't get pointed at ( it's seen as EXTREMELY RUDE) or people asking to touch you in any way(also very rude). Unfortunately, I have a racist mother and a very...outspoken grandmother who's probably never interacted with people of other races.I still want to go to Korea, though :)
To tell you the truth, Koreans do look alike. You guys really stand out from the fact that you are both tall and possess a very different hair color from a typical Korean citizen.
i think the whole staring-at-foriegners happens a lot in homogenous countries. like i went to china, and one day the group went to an interactive-museum-thing. it was one of those schools-get-discounts days though and ALL the kids were staring at me and avoiding me.
every country has it's raciest. like i'm african-american and my great grandmother and grandmother and my aunt have never really liked the idea that i date guys of other races. especially my great grandmother she believes that dating outside your race brings nothing but trouble but that doesn't stop me. and then i've had the guys i've dated family tell us we need to break up as well. though i'm from the south and sadly there's still a lot of raceism.
u know some people do that here in the US. Not trying to go on Asians (i love them). I went to a Korean supermarket thingy and all these "ajummas" kept starring , it got on my nerves. then i went to a bakery to look at the pretty cakes and the lady basically shooed me away, i was like wth im in doing u a favor. anyway i got pretty upset because here i are in america and u dare be that way? I know people are like that wherever but just saying...
@01JessicaS i also went to a korean super market and my family and i got stared at by alot of people, nobody was rude to us though, but it was pretty akward..
@01JessicaS yeah i still want to go to korea,and like simon and martina said the older generations are the ones that will probably judge more, i also went to a korean festival and there was more younger people there, and nobody seemed to mind all the different races and they were actually really welcoming, this little ajuhmma even talked to me and my mom :)
im amazed that koreans are still pointing out foreigners now... considering how it used to be 5 years ago. seriously, there are thousands of americans alone in korea, working and teaching in korea these days!
Thanks so much guys! I recently started freaking out cuz I REALLY want to come to Korea and study but people told me Koreans are very rascist and I didnt want to believe it and I was really sad that I might be considered and outcast but this really helped boost my confidence :D
hahaha that reminds me of my time in china... i was photographed all the time in secret ...(well not so secret cause i noticed it) ... and about a dozen times a day they asked me to take pictures with them... so akward sometimes with little children that was cute ^^ new experience to me so i kind of think that it could stress me out if i had to deal with it everyday.
to be a teacher in canada, will i have to take teachers college in toronto before going or is there like another course i hve to take? like if i want to be an english teacher, do i need a degree in english?
@lehcar17 Not necessarily. You can get an english teaching certificate and it basically gives you a pass to teach english in other countries, although I think you do need at least a 3-4 years in college. So if you want to teach you might as well go into teachers college.
lol try being a white female with a korean boyfriend. He gets told to break up with me and be with someone of his own race all the time. Most of the time it's a negative reaction but then again I've had good things happen like when me and him went out to eat dinner and the lady there kept on complimenting us and saying we'd make beautiful babies, we didn't even have to pay for the food.
@HannyDr00 i completely understand, i dated a korean for six years and his family was constantly disapproving of us being together. I have blonde hair and blue eyes and I'm 5'7 and they would always make comments about my height (implying I was too tall), oh well.
My BFF is a model, she looks like a lot of people in my country, but she got to dye her hair purple and cut it very short for a show, and when we went to the mall, everyone stared at her, and laugh.... i just smiled at them and made them look a pretty, pretty sign....
I remember my Korean friend telling me how funny she found that foreigners complain about how difficult was to get a job in Norway, because she said that they would not even be close to found one in Korea, unless they were white and taught English.
I'm bi-racial I want to go to Korea when i'm older and in america are like omg! your hair is so curly and soft,can i touch it? so i guess i won't be as freaked out. lol
I am korean but i had the same experience when i was in Switerland. No asians and people stared at me. First i felt so bad, but when i came to korea i realized it. Its cause foreigners curious xD
@keany19 I dont remember the name of the city, but it was a small city. DEF not geneva or bern.
lived there for 7 months, and lived in germany for 4years :) Now in korea as a university student.
If you are aking hows switerland- its a nice country. calm and fresh air, humble people. (but as a i said before, where i lived was rare to see asian so some people stared at, but not in germany)
here we do that with asians jeje ok almost everyone xD I'm colombian and I have bicolor hair xD half red half blond dyed of course and people always look at me xD *sharing randomly*
Once, this man who was delivering a huge basket of bread was staring at me with such sheer fascination that he ran into someone else and bread was just FLYING everywhere (I kind of laughed, but I felt terrible afterwards ._.)
Okay sooo, idk if any of you here know Hetalia, but when Martina was like "No, I'm canadian" I instantly thought of Canda and how nobobdy knows who he is XDDD lol poor canada (p.s for those who don't know hetalia it's a Japanese anime show where each country is personified, I have nothing against canada)
So, when I went to Korea with some of my korean friends we ran into a racist Ahjussi in small market, he told me to get out of his country....lol racist old people~ ironically I found the whole situation rather humorous :P
I'm black, light-skinned. But I have like a lot of hair, I'm a natural and my hair is always in like in micro-braids. Even kids at my school ask, how does it get like that?! My reaction : =_=''
Im 75% Asian (Korean and Japanese) and 25% Norwegian and i'm extremely pale- like paler than every american ive ever met. one time i was in Korea for a couple weeks (i go there sometimes) and someone said 'your skin so white- can i touch it? so pretty' so i just smiled and stood there awkwardly while they felt my arm.
I'm black but of course, being into Kpop, Jrock ect and not dressing like most of the coughcoughghettocoughcough people at my school, I might as well be considered a foreigner. I'll gladly take Korea^^
@TheCyberFantasy Same here! But on top of being black and liking kpop/jrock etc I listen to rock music and country music so yeah :D I get considered a foreigner here to even though i've lived in america entire life. :P
I remember visiting Korea, and when I began talking to my sister, people gave me odd looks and dirty glances. One man told me to shut up, and a little boy pointed at me and said, "look mommy! They're speaking alien!"
I'm latino and would love to go to Korea one day, but are there any latino people in korea? have they ever seen a latino person? lol. I would be nervous to go though as the older korean here in L.A (in koreatown) seem to be pretty prejudice towards anyone that is a non-korean
dear black people, i dont think u guys should be afraid to go to korea. its not a country with racist skinheads intent on killing u. you'll be safe and if u just act normal everything will be fine. please dont be scared away from visiting korea if u want to travel
I'm black and I am never going to Korea. I would be scared for my life. I rather go to Japan. Japan seems to be a little more open to be people who are black.
im black n when i was in s. korea for a trip with my korean friend they would all look at n ooh n ahh n whisper. many ppl asked to touch my hair, n skin, look at may eyes. i was NOT offended at all. i just laughed politely. Their family was really nice too, its just really awkward having all that attention lol :D
@Kitchel17 i have really lite eyes for a black person, so yeah, its kinda weird when ppl look straight in eyes n in bubble, but i just smiled awkwardly lol ;D
OK so Simon and Martina are from Toronto. I live in Toronto and people STILL ASK ME IF THEY CAN TOUCH MY HAIR XD. Its can be annoying sometimes but I'm used to it now.
Heyyy im korean just found your videos and can't stop watching them! You guys are really x1000000 fuuny LOL!!! And thank you for explaining our culture to everyone sometimes i also missunderstand a person when i meet him/her first time, though
dude.. I'm black and Asian, I didn't get the straight hair from my mom (her hair is slightly curly/wavy anyways) and instead got really curly hair and people (people I don't know) come up and ask if that can touch my hair..
I don't mind as often when my friends do it.. but stranger passing me on the street or store... that's awkward...
Reminds me of when I spent a weekend at a Hopi reservation in Arizona. I went with my friend to the Walmart there and people were staring at me because I was the only black person most (especially the younger ones who had never left the reservation) had seen outside of the TV. I hung out with some of the high school kids in their dorms and they kept touching my skin and hair. It was kind of funny and I wasn't offended at all.
@Amorufasu yea. Some foreigners have said on their blogs that they tell the Koreans who stare at them to shut up. that's not how you interact with the people lol
Mrtina and Simon! I enjoy your video clips. As a Korean, , what you said is really interesting and new to me cause your let me know how foreigners could think of Korean culture. Thank you !
I thought about this last night and realized that my top 5 favorite people in the world are my mother, my cat (iknowisaidpeoplebutilovemycatsarentpeopleyeahok), my local barista, Martina and Simon. In that order. Sorry, Simon. It's just Martina does her omfgiloveTOP snow skip thing and it's really super cute. You two should be the official ambassadors of Korea.
I'm black and even here in Canada people always ask to touch my hair! They're always like "Is it real?" because I have really straight and soft hair and I'm like "YES!" So I wonder how it'll be when I go to Korea for my 16th birthday! :)
@Funnyrodeo Lol sameee!! I live in America and I'm mixed(black,irish,cherokee,a bit of chinese and some distant english xDlolol) and I have very curly hair!! xDD People are always asking to touch it!! My friends call it ramen noodles. xD
I think it depends on what part of Korea you live in. I lived in Seoul for over a year and I rarely got stared at or pointed at, but when I went somewhere else like Busan, Jeju, Gwangju, Incheon or Bucheon it did happen a lot, like people randomly talking to us or chattering among them and stuff like that. I'd say Seoul is very very used to foreigners.
Try to be a Korean (or Korean descendant) and be fat, there's no greater sin. I think being a fat Korean beats kicking puppies and being a murderer, lol
I wonder if they will notice me as much in Korea, I mean I have black hair, brown super brown eyes, but I'm tan...and I'm not korean but I'm Asian...well this past summer I was in Seoul and these two girls that looked my age (14) asked me if I was Thai? And I'm like "no..." cause really I don't look Thai at all
agreed! i'm asian i'm standing above 185cm and when i went to korea they were like omg look its big foot. I had this chic in myeondong station full slapping her boyfriend's arm for him to look at me. i was like wtf?! being the nice me i didn't shove my big foot down her throat =D
Lol what are Koreans doing in KOREA?
hoochu864 7 hours ago
I love you guys sooo much!!
danilove1985 16 hours ago
Love ya Simon n Martina mostly love yur channels keep it up ^_~
I'm a brown skin african from sudan with long curly black hair ... I'm 5.3 which makes me sooooooooo short in ma society ... but when I went to the middle east the majority of ppl would point at me as tall ..so I was like WHAT THE HELL!!!!... I wonder how would it be in Korea and other far eastern countries XD
8LightWings8 18 hours ago
hello ! ^^ what is the meaning of TL;DR ? thanks !
Mslolypop165 1 day ago
@Mslolypop165 its Too Long ; Didn't Read ^^
kJpopped 1 day ago
You guys are good. I love your programming. Such a funny couple.
Zeeroyuy 2 days ago
I'm blonde, blue-eyed and 5"11 ... and a female! ^.^' It's going to be so awkward when I get there!!
QHBEEify 3 days ago
I was walking through a mall in Seoul a few years ago and this group of middle schoolers were all staring and pointing at my bleach blonde hair, and then this guy working at a theme park asked if he could take a picture with me lol. I just thought it was cute :)
vanessaindinosaur 4 days ago
im asian and im dark LOLOLOL well not that dark but tan =__=
PikachuxRawr 6 days ago
So...if I go to Korea, they would want to touch my skin and hair because I'm dark? Ehhhh....OKAY!!!
CrazyLuck90 1 week ago
4.18 "...just imagine if you saw someone in your city that had green hair and purple eyes..."
That's no new thing and in our city they are called "taikkarilainen" which means they are student in the local art school.
Kurrw 1 week ago
yee toronto :D
MaeeshaRahman 1 week ago
I love Martina's glasses!!
MandiRognerud 1 week ago
"Just imagine u saw someone in your city that has green hair and purple eyes. You might think 'oh that person looks different.'"
Green hair and purple eyes? Simon, I'm from NYC....seeing someone w/green hair & purple eyes would be a normal thing for me.
natememart 1 week ago 6
@natememart
NYC is obviously not a homogeneous society XD
kakteed 1 week ago
@natememart
NYC is obviously not a homogeneous society XD
kakteed 1 week ago
They actually ask if they can touch your hair? … That’s so awesome. Seriously I’m totally attention deprived so that wouldn’t offend me at all.
PepsiMewMew 1 week ago
damn racist grandmas.
MelGemmaRichardson 1 week ago 3
how old are they?
GeorgiePorgieOrgie 1 week ago in playlist TL;DR
Inconceivable! Hahaha! Love the allusion to The Princess Bride!
doingmyhw 1 week ago
Would they be able to tell if you're Chinese or Japanese because we can tell the difference xD
rockoncarly 2 weeks ago
Are Koreans actually attracted to foreigners or is it just kind of awkward..?
FeatherSplit 2 weeks ago
I'm Asian and I live in Australia, but Aussies ask if they can touch my hair since it is so straight LOL XD
PATDIsYummy 2 weeks ago
I'm an American Korean and I dislike how many Americans who have visited Korea are like, OMG Koreans are so racist, and I experience racism in America everyday (racism as in treating me different,but not in the negative way). It bothers me how SOME (not all i know) Americans claim to not be racist and then call Koreans or other Asians racist. This video was FABULOUS. thank you for clarifying the Korean view on foreigners. (we actually like foreigners. we just find it hard to approach them lol)
starnight131 2 weeks ago 5
Martina's laugh is so contagious
carmiebbt 2 weeks ago
I'm from Toronto tooooo :D
carmiebbt 2 weeks ago
I've watched pretty much all your videos at least twice I just love them! You guys are seriously the best.. I would do anything to meet you's :D
KirstieXoXo 2 weeks ago
I point out whenever I see an asian in the street... xD
KaiUrfaceisstoopid 2 weeks ago
yeah we got that can i touch your hair? is your hair real? your hair is really curly! your eyes are different when i went to china
oreleona 2 weeks ago in playlist More videos from simonandmartinabonus
@oreleona I had people in Japan ask me if they could touch my hair too lol
My hair is like spiral curls and they were just sproinging it for 10 minutes and kept asking me if it was ok
BlueRazor69 2 weeks ago
Aw, so the mean looking Grandmother was just being thoughtful. ^^
seoulologyy 3 weeks ago in playlist TL;DR 16
Canada = North America.
American.
foreverslain 3 weeks ago in playlist TL;DR
I know some old Koreans very exclusive against foreigners lol they're just afraid of them
and they aren't racists or something lol
qmfpdlzm1 4 weeks ago
I want to move to korea and i'm from the UK lol sounds like fun.
jaydeisvip 4 weeks ago
I'm latin... i'm even more diferent than you guys LOL
KarlitaPalma93 1 month ago
Oh my God! :D I had green hair and purple contact lenses! xD And I noticed people looking at me only a couple of times...
DannaDDxD 1 month ago in playlist Uploaded videos
when i went to china people came to the store to see or touch my little brother eyes and lashes but they were old people :D
TheMidno 1 month ago
@TheMidno Damn it, YT! Sry, but if u're wondering y u have a thumb down, it's b/c I clicked it by accident. Be4 it used to be easy to change such mistakes, but now I can't
-___-
natememart 1 week ago
@natememart :D no problem it's okay :) thank you for being so polite <3
TheMidno 1 week ago
@TheMidno no problem =)
natememart 1 week ago
Me and a lot of my friends are first generation kids from a loto of cultures and sometimes instead of a racist granma, it's out racist parents.
jayro39 1 month ago
white people can't handle no spicy food. ;)
Lyvetacus 1 month ago
@Lyvetacus bullshit. I'm white and i love spicy food: been to korea, india, sichuan so i experienced all kinds of asian spicy food. i hate it when they make food milder just coz they see i'm white
Leucci11 3 weeks ago
@Leucci11 cause white people can't handle no spicy food ;)
Lyvetacus 2 weeks ago
@Lyvetacus booya. Gonna have sichuan food in shanghai tonight to celebrate my love for spicy food. ah!
Leucci11 2 weeks ago
sometimes i cry myself to sleep, what if day comes to hear simon and martina are getting a divorce.
kznck 1 month ago
did you guys learn Korean when you were there?? How long did it take?
joycechu1963 1 month ago
This is not from Korea but I went to Japan on a date with a guy who asked if my blue eyes were contact lenses. "Uhm.. no.." "Eh?.. *long stare*" I thought it was adorable.
MissionKitkat 1 month ago 17
@MissionKitkat ahahahahah nice
iscratchmybutt 1 month ago
I love the part when Simon says, "Did I just experience racism? Inconceivable." That was a classic look when the camera zoomed up. Jeez, you two are a hoot.
FireUara 1 month ago in playlist Uploaded videos
i have red hair and i went to japan and when i first met my host sister she was like 0.o, "can i touch it?" i was like um yes, if you really want. haha i think it's cute
believersnevrdie 1 month ago 4
@believersnevrdie That happened to me when I went to Shanghai too.. several times actually. I have kind of really long blonde wavy hair (reaching my butt)
Oh, also, this was where someone told me I was tall for the first time in my life x) I'm under average tall in Scandinavia...
AgehaSoul 1 month ago
Lol I wouldn't really mind if people asked to touch my hair. People where I live in the U.S. still ask to touch my hair xD
TheWooHooism 1 month ago
I see green hair purple-eyed people all the time, what are you talking about? :P
dejavu0uvajed 1 month ago
I can imagine the Koreans touching my curly hair LOL it would be awkward.
AisucreamCUBE 1 month ago
@AisucreamCUBE LOL! My friend actually did that. He was five when he moved from Russia to Chicago. The first time he saw a black kid, he walked up and rubbed the boy's curly hair.
jungyew 1 month ago
@jungyew LOOL I'm not black tho, I'm brunette. Actually, my skin color is a little yellow, but I'm not Asian. I REALLY DON'T KNOW WHERE DID I CAME FROM LOL
AisucreamCUBE 1 month ago
@AisucreamCUBE If I am with you people in NY they all believe I am from asia, others from the Philippines and so on so I say no I am hispanic but even in my own country people don't believe me when I say I am actually from here... So I wonder if I go to Korea would I be accepted or be rejected, lol, I guess I will be rejected too... This was really funny...
LUPITA311 4 weeks ago
Not in seoul i guess..
elloise92 1 month ago
OMG you guys are so funny. Subscribed. I'm crying im laughing so hard
MidnightRaven66 1 month ago
i took a korean class and my teacher was an older korean lady, but she wasnt rasict grandma like at all. she was so sweet and she always was kind and accepting to all they students no matter their race or if they were overweight. so dont worry there are many non-racist ajumas out there too! :)
L4CH4T4 1 month ago
You guys have great accents!!! But i guess thts to be expected after livin in korea for 3+ years
tonnhoohnnot 1 month ago
i am going to university in korea and was worried about this. i am caucasian but have dark brown hair and dark eyes. I am hoping i dont get noticed as much apart from my height and skin colour :)
MatchaOnegai 1 month ago
I was eating a corn dog and about to choke from hysterically laughing! :)
2Surprising4U 1 month ago in playlist TL;DR
When I went to SK me, I often experienced some racist moments like they said. I had a taxi driver kick me out of his car in pouring rain because he found a korean customer, an old man yell at me to go back to my country when I asked for directions, just to name a few! LOL But yeah the new generation is quite nice and very open to foreigners but I found the "racist grandmother" was very common xD
MrDambiSchool 1 month ago
I absolutely love your kitchen. How did you make it so awesome? XD
AnimatedBeauty 1 month ago
wait what ARE koreans doing in korea anyway?? i mean i understand canadians and americans and stuff in korea but...koreans?? ;)
Forever15SuperJunior 1 month ago
now im scared to go to korea!!!
ActingLikeAttitude 1 month ago 6
Great videos peeps, very informative from a fun direction.
moomintroll888 1 month ago
thanks god in my country there is a lot of variety!!
tamakikawaii 1 month ago
@TheCyberFantasy I'm not black, but yay! ^.^/ More j-rock/k-pop fans (LOL, sharing randomly)
SalmonNinja1997 1 month ago
You guys are sooo funny!!! SUBSCRIBED!
ikimikiss 1 month ago
I've lived in America all my life so I've never felt what its like to be the minority. As long as they don't hate me or anything, I wouldn't have a problem with it.
I feel like this kind of discrimination (?) is more common in Asian countries more so than in the western/European countries.
FullMoon272 1 month ago
@FullMoon272 I KNOW! I chose Korea for an exchange program and now i'm like "OH MAI GAWWWD, WHY DIDNT I CHOOSE RUSSSIAAAA?!" I'm still excited to experience Korea though. I've never been to Asia ^^
Egirl01 1 month ago in playlist TL;DR
@Egirl01 Good luck with it~ and I want to go to Spain for an exchange program but only because I can speak Spanish. I don't know a word of Korean.
FullMoon272 1 month ago
I think it's just curiosity... a lot of women in korea wanted to take pictures with my cousin,she was 3 years old and her hair is blonde and her eyes are blue, and everyone told me that she had big round eyes and for make me understand they made circles with their hands on their eyes.
even if she was sleeping in her baby buggy some people took off her blanket to see her. it was creepy sometimes...I mean asian babies are cute too stop bothering my cousin
xxAlessiaxx1210 2 months ago
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I live on an island where the majority of people are of MOSTLY African or East Indian ancestry and if you're any other race (especially white), you're going to get stared at A LOT. But you definitely won't get pointed at ( it's seen as EXTREMELY RUDE) or people asking to touch you in any way(also very rude). Unfortunately, I have a racist mother and a very...outspoken grandmother who's probably never interacted with people of other races.I still want to go to Korea, though :)
philosophy75 2 months ago
O.O ITS A KOREAN! lol i love that :)
blue90stars 2 months ago 214
I always look at people that I find interesting. It's kind of a bad habit of mine.
GrungeSaaR 2 months ago in playlist TL;DR 195
racist grandmas LOLOL
My greek friend's grandma would always call me oriental lolol.
smh old ppl.
Acebill561 2 months ago in playlist TL;DR
To tell you the truth, Koreans do look alike. You guys really stand out from the fact that you are both tall and possess a very different hair color from a typical Korean citizen.
Auroranwarlock197 2 months ago
Love u guys! you crack me up... hahaha
nomiko1223 2 months ago
fat people suck
denshaotoko89 2 months ago
@denshaotoko89 bitch go choke on a twinky!! XDD
ummMyNameIsJOE 2 months ago
i think the whole staring-at-foriegners happens a lot in homogenous countries. like i went to china, and one day the group went to an interactive-museum-thing. it was one of those schools-get-discounts days though and ALL the kids were staring at me and avoiding me.
and yes, i did cry. :P
Yumyumsyrup 2 months ago 5
every country has it's raciest. like i'm african-american and my great grandmother and grandmother and my aunt have never really liked the idea that i date guys of other races. especially my great grandmother she believes that dating outside your race brings nothing but trouble but that doesn't stop me. and then i've had the guys i've dated family tell us we need to break up as well. though i'm from the south and sadly there's still a lot of raceism.
BigbangVip4Life 2 months ago
hmmmm i wouldn't care if they look.... but it's bitch-talk if the stare...
KongAiShangAshley 2 months ago
Can I ask?^^ Why are they live in Korea? :)) And become a teacher? XD
marsha11able 2 months ago
u know some people do that here in the US. Not trying to go on Asians (i love them). I went to a Korean supermarket thingy and all these "ajummas" kept starring , it got on my nerves. then i went to a bakery to look at the pretty cakes and the lady basically shooed me away, i was like wth im in doing u a favor. anyway i got pretty upset because here i are in america and u dare be that way? I know people are like that wherever but just saying...
01JessicaS 2 months ago
@01JessicaS i also went to a korean super market and my family and i got stared at by alot of people, nobody was rude to us though, but it was pretty akward..
puccalovesgaru500 2 months ago
@puccalovesgaru500 yay pucca! anyway its pretty upsetting. makes me want to go to korea all the more though (idk why)
01JessicaS 2 months ago
@01JessicaS yeah i still want to go to korea,and like simon and martina said the older generations are the ones that will probably judge more, i also went to a korean festival and there was more younger people there, and nobody seemed to mind all the different races and they were actually really welcoming, this little ajuhmma even talked to me and my mom :)
puccalovesgaru500 2 months ago
mmm.. now im considering not going to korea anymore lol
i dont wannr get trolled on xD
snowqueen274 2 months ago
im amazed that koreans are still pointing out foreigners now... considering how it used to be 5 years ago. seriously, there are thousands of americans alone in korea, working and teaching in korea these days!
kawaiiglo 2 months ago
I just discovered your videos. You guys are so funny.
Thumbs up and I've subscribed to your channel now.
RoyMcAvoy 2 months ago
It would probably hilarious for my family cause I'm half white and asian but I look mexican apparently and my sister looks chinese.
funniiclutz12 2 months ago
@funnyrodeo ppl say that about my hair too and im going to korea xD
supahkawaiiful 2 months ago
Thanks so much guys! I recently started freaking out cuz I REALLY want to come to Korea and study but people told me Koreans are very rascist and I didnt want to believe it and I was really sad that I might be considered and outcast but this really helped boost my confidence :D
Love you guys :D
Yazo0sgurl24 2 months ago
@Yazo0sgurl24 Maybe in another 30 years... The country is still developing
wesscoast 2 months ago
@Yazo0sgurl24 every country has their own racists. just keep that in mind when you travel to any country
tokee1234567 2 months ago
hahaha that reminds me of my time in china... i was photographed all the time in secret ...(well not so secret cause i noticed it) ... and about a dozen times a day they asked me to take pictures with them... so akward sometimes with little children that was cute ^^ new experience to me so i kind of think that it could stress me out if i had to deal with it everyday.
ablackangelstear 3 months ago
to be a teacher in canada, will i have to take teachers college in toronto before going or is there like another course i hve to take? like if i want to be an english teacher, do i need a degree in english?
lehcar17 3 months ago
@lehcar17 Not necessarily. You can get an english teaching certificate and it basically gives you a pass to teach english in other countries, although I think you do need at least a 3-4 years in college. So if you want to teach you might as well go into teachers college.
FinsternisSan 3 months ago
lol try being a white female with a korean boyfriend. He gets told to break up with me and be with someone of his own race all the time. Most of the time it's a negative reaction but then again I've had good things happen like when me and him went out to eat dinner and the lady there kept on complimenting us and saying we'd make beautiful babies, we didn't even have to pay for the food.
HannyDr00 3 months ago
@HannyDr00 i completely understand, i dated a korean for six years and his family was constantly disapproving of us being together. I have blonde hair and blue eyes and I'm 5'7 and they would always make comments about my height (implying I was too tall), oh well.
uniqueforlifex3 2 months ago
@uniqueforlifex3 how tall was he?
paolapai 2 months ago
@paolapai He was 5'10/11... and completely gorgeous.. well he was half korean.
uniqueforlifex3 2 months ago
trust me i have a lot of experiences with that. im black and i lived in germany. enough said lol
543prettygirl 3 months ago 2
in Korea to not know that other races arealo humans
FierceMakeupChick 3 months ago
wow its sad how ignorant they are
FierceMakeupChick 3 months ago
My BFF is a model, she looks like a lot of people in my country, but she got to dye her hair purple and cut it very short for a show, and when we went to the mall, everyone stared at her, and laugh.... i just smiled at them and made them look a pretty, pretty sign....
PauAndrePau 3 months ago
lolz..i wanna move to korea but im hispanic look asian nd im somewhat dark skin (peanut butter color >< ) lolz how fun~~~
mayra300350 3 months ago
LOL ho! its a foreigner!
oh! its a korean! whats a korean doing here!
that made me lol hahaha
albert423 3 months ago
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I remember my Korean friend telling me how funny she found that foreigners complain about how difficult was to get a job in Norway, because she said that they would not even be close to found one in Korea, unless they were white and taught English.
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renzord2 3 months ago
Nice video. And it's interesting to hear about the experience people have in Korea. Btw: I love your personalities! So cool~
sonicxisforever 3 months ago
I'm bi-racial I want to go to Korea when i'm older and in america are like omg! your hair is so curly and soft,can i touch it? so i guess i won't be as freaked out. lol
EJordan216 3 months ago in playlist TL;DR
I haven't even thought about that before. It's great chance to understand what expets are thinking. I am a Korean guy.
NeoJWCha 3 months ago
I am korean but i had the same experience when i was in Switerland. No asians and people stared at me. First i felt so bad, but when i came to korea i realized it. Its cause foreigners curious xD
THECAT8th 3 months ago
@THECAT8th
Hey there, where have you been in switzerland? and for which reason if i may ask?
I live in suisse (lausanne), and d'like to bring my girlfriend from korea.
How have you felt in here? and how did you like, honestly i mean!
Thanks
keany19 3 months ago
@keany19 I dont remember the name of the city, but it was a small city. DEF not geneva or bern.
lived there for 7 months, and lived in germany for 4years :) Now in korea as a university student.
If you are aking hows switerland- its a nice country. calm and fresh air, humble people. (but as a i said before, where i lived was rare to see asian so some people stared at, but not in germany)
THECAT8th 3 months ago
ur popular..thats why they notice you.. :D
asyiqin1996 3 months ago
here we do that with asians jeje ok almost everyone xD I'm colombian and I have bicolor hair xD half red half blond dyed of course and people always look at me xD *sharing randomly*
NoVictory39 3 months ago
Once, this man who was delivering a huge basket of bread was staring at me with such sheer fascination that he ran into someone else and bread was just FLYING everywhere (I kind of laughed, but I felt terrible afterwards ._.)
WoahiFoundNemo 3 months ago
I am a very white american, and I live in Saudi Arabia. You think I get stared at a lot??
JuliaStelly 3 months ago
you guys rock so good!! Really liked the dubboki story!
Isiena 3 months ago
Okay sooo, idk if any of you here know Hetalia, but when Martina was like "No, I'm canadian" I instantly thought of Canda and how nobobdy knows who he is XDDD lol poor canada (p.s for those who don't know hetalia it's a Japanese anime show where each country is personified, I have nothing against canada)
howaama11 3 months ago
So, when I went to Korea with some of my korean friends we ran into a racist Ahjussi in small market, he told me to get out of his country....lol racist old people~ ironically I found the whole situation rather humorous :P
howaama11 3 months ago
I'm black, light-skinned. But I have like a lot of hair, I'm a natural and my hair is always in like in micro-braids. Even kids at my school ask, how does it get like that?! My reaction : =_=''
strawberryskittleful 3 months ago
Im 75% Asian (Korean and Japanese) and 25% Norwegian and i'm extremely pale- like paler than every american ive ever met. one time i was in Korea for a couple weeks (i go there sometimes) and someone said 'your skin so white- can i touch it? so pretty' so i just smiled and stood there awkwardly while they felt my arm.
KitzuuTarot 3 months ago
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haha we all have at least one racist grandmother.
starry910 3 months ago
I'm black but of course, being into Kpop, Jrock ect and not dressing like most of the coughcoughghettocoughcough people at my school, I might as well be considered a foreigner. I'll gladly take Korea^^
TheCyberFantasy 3 months ago 51
@TheCyberFantasy Yayyyy we need more blacks into K-pop/Jrock :D:D:D
So they can have babies with Asians and have blasians.. because blasians are super awesome and usually pretty or hot! :D
(...yeah I'm drunk... don't ask. o_o)
AznKpopLuvr 3 months ago
@AznKpopLuvr yeah, have fun trying to have that happen
VanillaPeachKiss124 3 months ago
@TheCyberFantasy Same here! But on top of being black and liking kpop/jrock etc I listen to rock music and country music so yeah :D I get considered a foreigner here to even though i've lived in america entire life. :P
Hachiko070 1 month ago
luv ur response 'no i'm canadian!' torontorians rock! :)
seimeichan 3 months ago
I have green eyes, so would i look cute with purple hair? ^^
XiahsgirlMelody 4 months ago
proud torontos:)))
KimikoxSakaki 4 months ago
funny story
ilovekpop486 4 months ago
gamsahamnida !
ilovekpop486 4 months ago
How do you guys get over it?
I remember visiting Korea, and when I began talking to my sister, people gave me odd looks and dirty glances. One man told me to shut up, and a little boy pointed at me and said, "look mommy! They're speaking alien!"
Hahaha yup.
LinkyXDou 4 months ago 40
I'm latino and would love to go to Korea one day, but are there any latino people in korea? have they ever seen a latino person? lol. I would be nervous to go though as the older korean here in L.A (in koreatown) seem to be pretty prejudice towards anyone that is a non-korean
TBSammy182SxE 4 months ago
dear black people, i dont think u guys should be afraid to go to korea. its not a country with racist skinheads intent on killing u. you'll be safe and if u just act normal everything will be fine. please dont be scared away from visiting korea if u want to travel
leaderamongleaders 4 months ago
@leaderamongleaders I totally agree with you.
Maeve1515 2 months ago
I'm black and I am never going to Korea. I would be scared for my life. I rather go to Japan. Japan seems to be a little more open to be people who are black.
MiddleFingerToTheSky 4 months ago
@MiddleFingerToTheSky
Don't be scared to go to Korea.
Korean peoples aren't racists but curious :).
TheKawaiiiChan 4 months ago
im black n when i was in s. korea for a trip with my korean friend they would all look at n ooh n ahh n whisper. many ppl asked to touch my hair, n skin, look at may eyes. i was NOT offended at all. i just laughed politely. Their family was really nice too, its just really awkward having all that attention lol :D
Kitchel17 4 months ago
@Kitchel17 i have really lite eyes for a black person, so yeah, its kinda weird when ppl look straight in eyes n in bubble, but i just smiled awkwardly lol ;D
Kitchel17 4 months ago
OK so Simon and Martina are from Toronto. I live in Toronto and people STILL ASK ME IF THEY CAN TOUCH MY HAIR XD. Its can be annoying sometimes but I'm used to it now.
roanred555 4 months ago
Heyyy im korean just found your videos and can't stop watching them! You guys are really x1000000 fuuny LOL!!! And thank you for explaining our culture to everyone sometimes i also missunderstand a person when i meet him/her first time, though
violetayoon 4 months ago
dude.. I'm black and Asian, I didn't get the straight hair from my mom (her hair is slightly curly/wavy anyways) and instead got really curly hair and people (people I don't know) come up and ask if that can touch my hair..
I don't mind as often when my friends do it.. but stranger passing me on the street or store... that's awkward...
musicalxanime 4 months ago
Reminds me of when I spent a weekend at a Hopi reservation in Arizona. I went with my friend to the Walmart there and people were staring at me because I was the only black person most (especially the younger ones who had never left the reservation) had seen outside of the TV. I hung out with some of the high school kids in their dorms and they kept touching my skin and hair. It was kind of funny and I wasn't offended at all.
titiaquah 4 months ago
If you see Korean people staring at you, and you laugh kindly at them, will they take that on a good way?
Amorufasu 4 months ago
@Amorufasu yea. Some foreigners have said on their blogs that they tell the Koreans who stare at them to shut up. that's not how you interact with the people lol
tokee1234567 3 months ago
Martina looks so cuttee!!! xD
stealstar233 4 months ago
Hi Martina and Simon :) I'm Korean and I live in Toronto :) I miss Korea lol :3 I luv ur videos
lauren1998ify 4 months ago
Mrtina and Simon! I enjoy your video clips. As a Korean, , what you said is really interesting and new to me cause your let me know how foreigners could think of Korean culture. Thank you !
eifjow 4 months ago
I thought about this last night and realized that my top 5 favorite people in the world are my mother, my cat (iknowisaidpeoplebutilovemycatsarentpeopleyeahok), my local barista, Martina and Simon. In that order. Sorry, Simon. It's just Martina does her omfgiloveTOP snow skip thing and it's really super cute. You two should be the official ambassadors of Korea.
sdgj26 4 months ago
I'm black and even here in Canada people always ask to touch my hair! They're always like "Is it real?" because I have really straight and soft hair and I'm like "YES!" So I wonder how it'll be when I go to Korea for my 16th birthday! :)
Funnyrodeo 4 months ago 48
@Funnyrodeo nice
starkitty5 4 months ago
@Funnyrodeo Lol sameee!! I live in America and I'm mixed(black,irish,cherokee,a bit of chinese and some distant english xDlolol) and I have very curly hair!! xDD People are always asking to touch it!! My friends call it ramen noodles. xD
stealstar233 4 months ago
@Funnyrodeo Uh, that's hard to believe.
kkkraken 3 months ago
Welcome to lives of minorities in AMERICA
HaloMediaRecords 4 months ago 72
I think it depends on what part of Korea you live in. I lived in Seoul for over a year and I rarely got stared at or pointed at, but when I went somewhere else like Busan, Jeju, Gwangju, Incheon or Bucheon it did happen a lot, like people randomly talking to us or chattering among them and stuff like that. I'd say Seoul is very very used to foreigners.
kpopsubs2 4 months ago
Great video!
Martina's laugh never fails to make me laugh :D
kryhappy96 4 months ago
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cookiemonxchu 4 months ago
Try to be a Korean (or Korean descendant) and be fat, there's no greater sin. I think being a fat Korean beats kicking puppies and being a murderer, lol
yakurimoe 4 months ago 9
I wonder if they will notice me as much in Korea, I mean I have black hair, brown super brown eyes, but I'm tan...and I'm not korean but I'm Asian...well this past summer I was in Seoul and these two girls that looked my age (14) asked me if I was Thai? And I'm like "no..." cause really I don't look Thai at all
123pinklemonade 5 months ago
@123pinklemonade what country you from?
wittysarah 5 months ago
agreed! i'm asian i'm standing above 185cm and when i went to korea they were like omg look its big foot. I had this chic in myeondong station full slapping her boyfriend's arm for him to look at me. i was like wtf?! being the nice me i didn't shove my big foot down her throat =D
jstanodaDBSKfreak 5 months ago 6