It reads, I refuse to be ordinary.

Ah, caucasians and their love affair with getting Asian characters tatted on them... Gotta love'em.

I think that's pretty cool.

He obviously has interest in Korea... the tatoo...the cyworld~

I really like what it says, though, it sounds good both in korean and in english!

왜 저런데....

왜요... 넘 멋있잖아요...

I don't think so...

actually i tihnk that's kinda cool b/c most ppl would get it done in chinese or japanese... that $hit has lost all meaning.. haha...

At least it's tattooed out correctly in a complete sentence intead of being just one character like people who get Chinese characters tattooed on themselves.

I want to show my cousin the characters so she can help me pronounce it. Can someone type the entire message out?

"나는 평범함을 거부 한다"

Thanks dude.

that's cool, except i don't like the kind of korean font he's got going there, though i suppose for a long sentence...

anyway, can some one teach me some korean?

why does it read 평범함 instead of 평범? what's the 함 mean?

함, ham, is "to be" in shortened version to fit the sentence and grammar.

White people get stylized roman letters tattooed on them, too.
At least this guy put something meaningful, instead of a single hanzi.
Too many people have "Power" and "Love" already.

I like his tattoo.

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When I was in the Chinatown of my city, I was waiting outside of a Chinese restaurant with my friends and overheard a group of Korean people speaking. I decided to grab a nearby free newspaper (Chinese, how convenient) and wrote down the Korean characters above and showed it to them. They saw it and translated it for me (which was useless since I already know what it meant, actually wanted them to pronounce it) and said that it's a very popular tatoo that westerners put on their backs.

that's too much of a coincidence

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You know what I find funny about that pic? Try... just TRY to find a shirt with Hangeul on it here in Korea. Except for some cheezy tourist shirts, they don't exist. Why not? There's a load of bad english ones though!

well i've ever seen some ones that have internet slangs like 즐, 뷁, but no other.

Well, let me let you in on a secret, too, then.
I'm white.
I have a fair amount of white friends with tattoos of their loved ones names.
This is ALWAYS done in Roman letters, and usually within either a heart, or some sort of celtic-inspired framework.
I also know people who have partial quotes tattooed on their arms.
This is generally done with a stylized Roman font, or with a cursive font, for artistic reasons.

And as far as "the fact that almost no one can read it," I once had a roommate who had the katakana "ME-TO-MO" tattooed on his shoulder.
He told me it was his name (Rob).
You'd think if you were getting something put on your body permanently, you'd at least make sure you understood what it meant...

Also, as far as "try typing the letter A on a canvas," try typing the word love on a canvas.
Hanzi are not single letters, and many white people have stylized Roman tattoos for artistic reasons as well.


Right, and as long as we're picking on people who like things written in languages that aren't their own: