It always irks me, I don't know when this trend started but when I moved away from Korea in the mid 90s as a young child this was strictly a honorific for older brother from a younger sister OR maybe I was just unaware of the trend because I was a kid.
So I get grossed out when a Korean girl calls me oppa and I have expressed my discomfort which was met with a cold response (I guess they really like calling older men oppa), part of the reason I never date younger Korean women. That and the whole 'mister' or aekyo (adult women emulating an infant) shit I find very creepy and unattractive. There's this national inclination for young women, sort of like Japan's obsession with schoolgirls.
On the other hand, being called 'ajusshi' which doesn't carry the same affection as 'oppa' and intended for much older men and some Korean men take offense when addressed as 'ajusshi' but less so than Korean women who go apeshit when I made the mistake of calling them 'ajumma'.
on an offtopic side note, Oppai in Japanese means tits.
So I get grossed out when a Korean girl calls me oppa and I have expressed my discomfort which was met with a cold response (I guess they really like calling older men oppa), part of the reason I never date younger Korean women. That and the whole 'mister' or aekyo (adult women emulating an infant) shit I find very creepy and unattractive. There's this national inclination for young women, sort of like Japan's obsession with schoolgirls.
On the other hand, being called 'ajusshi' which doesn't carry the same affection as 'oppa' and intended for much older men and some Korean men take offense when addressed as 'ajusshi' but less so than Korean women who go apeshit when I made the mistake of calling them 'ajumma'.
on an offtopic side note, Oppai in Japanese means tits.