Han and Hugh talk about some more reverse culture shock they experienced when going back to Korea.They talk about the cold, greetings, internet speed and foreigners.

(This was filmed back when we were in Australia and sorry for bad lighting).

We talk about being called ahjussi or hyung and how I got a Korean tutor. We also comment on some comments!

We will be filming some more Ask Korean Guys in the coming weeks so please ask your questions now!

Hugh and Daniel talk about what words are fun to say in English and also what words they like to say in Korean.

He will help Hugh out in some Ask Korean Guys video and will appear in some other videos. Han will still be in videos, don’t worry!

Han and Hugh talk about the Korean hierarchy system and what they do when in Australia, how they get out of using it sometimes, and what level of politeness they use with each other.

The guys talk about problems expressing themselves in English, dreaming in English and if some Koreans date foreigners only to improve their English. And will Han call Hugh “Oppa”?

Koreans seem to have this open dialogue about people’s looks that I’m not that used to. As a society they tend to be image focused and people’s attractiveness comes up a lot in normal conversations. I think my husband has unnerved some Australian guys more than once by leaning in and saying, “You are very handsome” to them. That is completely normal for Korean guys though.

So pretty much every time I’m hanging out with a group of Korean guys, particularly if we have first met, they’ll ask me to choose who I think is the most attractive. It makes me so uncomfortable! They’ll keep asking me to do it though, so usually I will finally choose. My choice often surprises them because I have different taste in guys than Korean girls usually. At that point I hope it’s all over but then they want me to choose the next best guy and so on. I flat out refuse at that point because someone has to be last right? I don’t want to hurt any feelings.

I’m not sure if they get me to do this because I’m a married woman and it’s safe to do without any misunderstanding or if since I met my husband I’ve just been around Korean men a lot more. I knew Korean guys before I met my husband but I hadn’t had this situation happen that much. Now I always expect it but I’m no better at dealing with the situation. (Just asked my husband and he seems to think it happens a lot to me because I’m a married woman).

The funny thing is my husband knows me so well that he can easily predict which guy I think is most handsome.

What is it with Koreans and forehead flicking? They seem to love to use it as a form of punishment in games too. They actually seem to love punishing people more than Australians do. When we were at my parents’ house and were good friends with the Korean guys next door (my parents’ rent out a house to Koreans on working holiday visas) I taught them lots of pool games. Korea doesn’t have a big swimming culture like Australia does, they had never played pool games, so I taught them how to play games like Marco Polo. They weren’t satisfied when someone failed in the game, like didn’t manage to catch anyone, was “fish out of water” or was caught early so they would punish them – like hardcore splashing or dunking them. I was always like, “You don’t need to violently punish someone like that!” and they’d say, “Yes we do!”

So yes, I’ve seen the forehead flicking used a lot as punishment as well. My husband wasn’t doing it hard this time, he was just doing it to be annoying.

I’ve mentioned before about the way he can be ‘grabby’ in a spontaneous burst of affection way. Not all Korean guys are like this, but if you’ve watched enough Korean romantic dramas you know exactly what I’m talking about.

I used to think the female characters in Korean dramas were too easily annoyed and pissed off all the time when the male lead does something but now I can understand that reaction. It can be annoying. My husband will sometimes do it to deliberately annoy me too, but claim he is just being romantic.

I just shoved him off again because I won’t put up with the bossy romantic act. He then cackled to himself, “Haha I think I’m really funny.”