Koreans

I'm sorry to hear that, unfortunately most koreans are really shy, they might want to be your friend, but are too shy to even speak to you.
It also depends on where you live in Korea, if you live in a small town you might have a hard time, but if you live in places like Busan or Seoul then you will make friends one or other time.
If you meet a korean and you want to be her/his friend, then a good way to show them that is to give that person a little gift. it can be anything, a little cellphone decoration or a cute little key holder, that's mostly if it's a girl. Otherwise if the korean invites you to come to their house then it is really important to show your interest in giving a gift. So if your going to their house a good present to give is fruit or traditional korean 떡 (rice cake).
Hope my advise helped!
Just remember , maybe just because it looks like they don't want to be your friend it doesn't allways mean that they don't .
So don't worry, I'm a foreigner that's been living in Korea for more than two years now, and I can speak korean quite well so I've got a lot of Korean friends and they are very sweet!

Petro Gey v. Pittius 19 Oct 2008, 07:20 - Report