[lovejyk]

I only bow to adults... as in people who are 30+ years old. I don't usually bow to anyone close around my age :/ I don't call anyone unnie/oppa unless I need something from them LOL.

[Deziel]

I tilt forward a bit, not a real bow. Just like a 20degrees tilt forward? Lol, it's usually quick.

I bow to elders often. Those who are up to 3 years older than me, I just talk normally. 4~9 I am semi formal and if your over 10 years older, I'll be very formal. xD

[CaramelSweetie]

The only time I bow, is when I'm about to bend down to tie my shoe or something.
I usually just go with a simple hello.

[xdanbi]

I've been bowing to anyone that's 20+ and Korean for all my life.
I speak Korean to them if they know it, otherwise English.
As for fobby Korean kids my age, I don't call them unni/oppa/noona/etc.
My best friend is a fob and when I first met her she called me unni.
At first it was weird but now I got used to it.

[xTwilight]

No, I do the starcraft sign and they know what I'm talking about.
I don't speak korean, but starcraft is universal.

[hanaren]

I tilt forward a bit, not a real bow. Just like a 20degrees tilt forward? Lol, it's usually quick.

I bow to elders often. Those who are up to 3 years older than me, I just talk normally. 4~9 I am semi formal and if your over 10 years older, I'll be very formal. xD

I know exactly what you're talking about. The 20 degree tilt, haha. It's just a quickie, could-be-viewed-as-rude, -but-not-really- kind of bow. I'm the master at that

[emma_fifth]

the culture here is different, we don't bow to elders.
but my friend has korean relatives which i met often. i just greeted him, but now bowing.

[คุณริคคี]

I dont even know what those terms mean. lol.

I bow. If they're asians in general. Cause thats a sign of respect.

[ajlee613]

in the korean neighborhood in oakland most of hte stores and stuff are run by korean ppl, and if i go there often then its simple manners to bow slightly when u come and go.

i dont use nuna or hyung.

i only call one girl nuna. but thats cuz shes one hell of a girl.

there is a certain respect to give to equals, and that should be given freely to ur felow human being. but a respect u give to a hyung or nuna or oppa or unni in korean is lowering urself, and i dont think age has anything to do with respect, that kind of respect of the elder, the adviser, the one who u can lean on when u dont kno what to do. that kind of respect must be earned.

[OukaKioshi]

haha the only ppl who call me Oppa/Hyung
are my younger cousins and some random korean ppl i know XD haha

[ddalgi]

i use oppa/unni and all the other formal titles everywhere but i dont bow in school because i feel like its unnecessary
fobs that i meet outside of school i do bow too


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[rigashi]

Of course! And now I'm at that age where I have a lot of super-cute dongsengs who bow to me!

But I mean, if I know someone is Korean-American, and they seem culturally American, then obviously I don't care if they just wave and don't address me as "unni/nuna/sunbae". But if you're culturally Korean, and you don't bow or address me properly, then I see that as major disrespect and you should expect there to be consequences.

The culture is different. Instead of imposing our personal views on someone else's culture, how about we all try to look at it from their point of view. I will never understand ppl who get annoyed when someone else's worldview doesn't agree with their own.

[sAkUrA * sTaR]

I use unni/oppa when calling their korean names
but when i call them by their american name i don't use it . ^^''

[영원한 사랑]

I don't really use unni/oppa "unless" they really want me to call them that.
I'm korean and I usually ask them what they wanna be called ...
If I have a choice then I prefer not to use unni/oppa though.
especially if they aren't too much older than me ...

(and I only bow to elders like my parents age)

[:0486]

i know the pain of that cos there was this viet girl, she would use japanese, krn, and chinese words but never viet only unless shes talking to her parents. and she wishes that she wasnt even viet too -o-

[Antz]

i don't haha. i usually just bow to older people. ._.

[ashtee]

I've heard stories of a Korean girl who went to school in a nearby city being beat up but a bunch of older Korean girls for not using the 'formal' way of referring to them.
And I live in Canada :|

Fobby Koreans are more sensitive to this stuff .. one of my fobby Korean friends bowed whenever she saw her older friends even a year after she'd met them. Now she just waves..I think.
Another one of my not-so-fobby Korean friends didn't use the respectful tone or w/e with an older guy, and he got pissed at her. XD She says that guy scared her off from ever hanging out with that group at school.

lol. I don't call my older brother bhaiya (Hindi equivalent of Korean 'oppa' or 'hyung')
Indian kids have a much more casual relationship with each other.

[Yubumsuk]

It's more fun to snap and point at your empty glass and say to a younger friend ' Ya! Dong-saeng! Wae!?'

In any event, you know you've been in Korea too long when you're white and you bow and give things to older white people with two hands, and refer to white friends as Bill-seonsaengnim / Mary-saem / Derick-gyosunim, etc. when speaking broken English and Korean.

[ix3sk8rboiz]

only when i talk to my cousins otherwise, if the fobs prefer that i do. but when i'm in korea~ always

[V A L XD]

I only bow to those 35 and older >.< haha
Thats just me.
But when I'm in Korea, I actually bow to anyone new I meet.

But if I meet someone who is older than me (under 35), I don't Oppa/Unnie. I think thats too imformal. I usually say their name and end it with a shi for politeness.
Like, this
"Annyounhaesayo, Seung Ki-sshi."
Or, I say Ahjusshi, halmonie etc...