Foxy Lady - Korean Lesson #2

I successfully made it to Suwon today in just an hour...not an hour and a half!  Plus, I was 15 minutes early so I was very happy about that.  I met with Peter and we finished learning the alphabet.  Reading it is pretty easy, but I still don't understand what 99% of the words mean.  During our lesson, Peter and I got side-tracked a lot just talking about different things.  He's a really interesting guy and so nice - he bought my coffee for me and at the end of our lesson took me to a different bus stop so that I could get home quicker (only 30 minutes).  He won't tell me how old he is, which a totally unfair because on the form I had to fill out I had to put down my birthday so he already knows my age.  I'm guessing he's in his mid to late 20s, but people here look really young so I could be totally off.

During our lesson I learned a couple really interesting things.  The word for "fox" and "lady" are the same, which I thought was totally hilarious.  Foxy Lady!  The word for "man" is the same as "wolf," too.  Then Peter told me that there are a couple expressions that singles use here in the winter when they want a boy/girlfriend.  The guys say, "I want a foxy scarf," and the women say, "I want a wolf jacket."  Men say foxy scarf, or lady scarf, because when a woman hugs a man around the neck, it's like a scarf, and scarves/women keep you warm in the winter - thus, foxy scarf.  And women say wolf jacket because men are bigger than women and can wrap their arms around them like a jacket - therefore a wolf jacket.  Anyways, I thought it was really funny.

During our first lesson, Peter also told me that the word that's pronounced bah-bo means "stupid."  But, when a woman says this to a man she's basically saying, "I really like you but you are so stupid because you don't know what I really want/you don't know what's in my heart."  Basically, the woman will say this to the man when he did or didn't do something to upset her.  It's basically a term of endearment and a slap in the face all in one word.

I'll continue to update you on other interesting phrases I learn.  Can't wait to learn more!