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I lived in Korea for 5 years. Here's what happened when I came home to Nebraska
- LeoPanthera 10y agoI'd just like to protest the posting of articles with clickbait headlines.
- anexprogrammer 10y ago...and not mentioning N or S Korea. I hoped for some interesting insights into the North.
- x1798DE 10y agoI think it's fair to say that if you don't specify a Korea, you mean South Korea. That's the colloquial assumption.
- anexprogrammer 10y agoFor tech and product, sure - there's no alternative. For travel and geography I don't think I remember a case of it not being specific. Maybe that;s a UK habit.
- derFunk 10y agoYou're probably right, I should have changed the headline here (I didn't write the story), but I found it so interesting and worth sharing that I totally not thought about it. Also the link to "reverse culture shock" in the story added a reason for me to share it here (doesn't always have to be about tech, I personally enjoy non-tech stories on HN a lot, because my whole life is tech already :) )
- miss_represent 10y agotl;dr The author was away from home for so long that his new territory felt more like home. Confused and overwhelmed at mixed feelings regarding his return, he felt homesick for the alien culture that he came to enjoy so much, while he was travelling abroad. He was thus disappointed by the inversion of feelings he was originally expecting. He is not happy about returning to America.
- sdoering 10y agoThis tl;dr doesn't imho really point to the core of the OC. And he did not travel - he lived there for five years. But yeah misrepresenting seems to be working good here.
- wodenokoto 10y agoThis is an almost text-book example of reverse culture shock, where after living abroad you take on enough of the cultural norms, that home seems almost alien to you.