TIK.... this is Korea
So this blog has mostly been about the things I have done or seen in Korea, but I think I need to talk more about Korea itself. Korea is like no other place I have experienced. The culture is completely different from what I am used to, and sometimes hard to understand, but can be appreciated all the same.
1) There is never a lack of customer service. At the grocery store, the mall, anywhere you go, the minute it seems like you might look at an item, someone is right there to assist you. Now remember, you don't speak the same language, so the help is not always useful, but they are there none the less. In every aisle at the grocery store, a nice lady is standing waiting for the next customer to approach. I was once trying to find laundry detergent (detergent and fabric softener look strikingly similar when you can't read the package, and mind you, they have a way larger selection of these two products then they do cereal - cereal: maybe 8 types, laundry detergent and fabric softener- at least 30 types. I don't get it... but then again TIK), and the woman approached and pointed to one bottle and started talking about it. All I could do was smile and nod.
2)Koreans stay to the left. They drive to the right, but walk to the left. The government is trying to change this. In the subway, there are little arrows on the ground showing you which side to walk to. Some people have made the change, and some can't be bothered. This makes for mass confusion in a crowded subway tunnel. Walking up the stairs turns into a blob of confusion. Some people are staying to the left, some are staying to the right, and some are just pushing up the middle. The same goes for walking down the road. I stay to the right, but when someone is walking towards me and they are on their left, we are marked to run right into each other and it turns into a game of chicken. Who will move out of the way first? It has been my experience, than Koreans don't move out of the way for anything, so I end up dodging them at the last second.
3)FOOD. Anyone who knows me, knows that I love food. Korea does not fall short. There is food everywhere! Street vendors galore, selling everything from dried squid to silkworms to fried spiral-sliced potatoes to waffles with whip cream to hot dogs wrapped in bacon to fried pancakes filled with honey and cinnamon to fresh fruit smoothies to ttoekbokki(delicious rice cakes covered in spicy red pepper sauce, sounds odd, but it's one of my favorites) t0 gyros to corn dogs with french fires in the batter to various meats on a stick... you get my point. Korea loves to eat, and for that, I love Korea.
4)Street vendors- this time not for food, but for anything else you could possibly need. People drive around in trucks and park at random corners and set up shop. These trucks sell things like socks, fruit, leggings, and other various goods.
This will be an ongoing list of things I like about Korea, or just things about Korea in general.
1) There is never a lack of customer service. At the grocery store, the mall, anywhere you go, the minute it seems like you might look at an item, someone is right there to assist you. Now remember, you don't speak the same language, so the help is not always useful, but they are there none the less. In every aisle at the grocery store, a nice lady is standing waiting for the next customer to approach. I was once trying to find laundry detergent (detergent and fabric softener look strikingly similar when you can't read the package, and mind you, they have a way larger selection of these two products then they do cereal - cereal: maybe 8 types, laundry detergent and fabric softener- at least 30 types. I don't get it... but then again TIK), and the woman approached and pointed to one bottle and started talking about it. All I could do was smile and nod.
2)Koreans stay to the left. They drive to the right, but walk to the left. The government is trying to change this. In the subway, there are little arrows on the ground showing you which side to walk to. Some people have made the change, and some can't be bothered. This makes for mass confusion in a crowded subway tunnel. Walking up the stairs turns into a blob of confusion. Some people are staying to the left, some are staying to the right, and some are just pushing up the middle. The same goes for walking down the road. I stay to the right, but when someone is walking towards me and they are on their left, we are marked to run right into each other and it turns into a game of chicken. Who will move out of the way first? It has been my experience, than Koreans don't move out of the way for anything, so I end up dodging them at the last second.
3)FOOD. Anyone who knows me, knows that I love food. Korea does not fall short. There is food everywhere! Street vendors galore, selling everything from dried squid to silkworms to fried spiral-sliced potatoes to waffles with whip cream to hot dogs wrapped in bacon to fried pancakes filled with honey and cinnamon to fresh fruit smoothies to ttoekbokki(delicious rice cakes covered in spicy red pepper sauce, sounds odd, but it's one of my favorites) t0 gyros to corn dogs with french fires in the batter to various meats on a stick... you get my point. Korea loves to eat, and for that, I love Korea.
4)Street vendors- this time not for food, but for anything else you could possibly need. People drive around in trucks and park at random corners and set up shop. These trucks sell things like socks, fruit, leggings, and other various goods.
This will be an ongoing list of things I like about Korea, or just things about Korea in general.
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