QUOTE(stimix @ Dec 15 2011, 11:25 PM)
Their England for sure bad lor..just like Thailand. Anyway, lotsa shop owners can speak abit of rotten mandarin & those in Myeondong sales girls that gave out free cosmestic samples can speak fluent mandarin. and lost of the hotel receptionist too can speak fluent mandarin to my surprise..They probably chinese migrated to Seoul
When they kenot understand england, I speak to them in Chinese for sure haha..They can understand easier. For eg..I ask the 7-11/GS store in Incheon airport about student T-money card (TNG) in england they kenot understand so i used Chinese - Hoksang Piew/ well they can understand me man haha although they corrected my pronouciation to HakSeng pyio

this thread remind me of a story
a lady came in the shop the boss and the lady start talking in english bla bla bla.....
say she is married to a malaysian Chinese here she is from korean
boss ask so ur a korean chinese...?
she said no she is chinese and keep emphasizing she is Chinese
boss is like
then she said her family been staying in Korea for 5 generations
their family were allow to keep their chinese citizenship
if they want to go back they can choose China or Taiwan something like that
happen sometime back dont remember all the details