...a 70 year old Korean man reading "Bridget Jones' Diary" on the subway. A 10 year old boy wearing a "Same shit, different day" sweatshirt at school. A book vending machine. Dead frogs and what looked to be fermented squirrels for sale at a country market. Photographs were forbidden. The terrible smell was not.
A middle aged man asleep at the subway stop, jacket folded neatly under his head, shoes stashed sensibly at his feet. He wasn't dozing while waiting for the train, he was straight up sleeping on the subway platform. Public sleeping is common here. Please see this website http://blackoutkorea.blogspot.com/
Remember a few years back when the hip thing in the states was to wear clothes with Chinese and Japanese writing on them? All the wanna-be gangsters back home in Santa Fe still do it. As far as you know they say offensive things about their wearers such as, "this guy's an asshole, he has no idea what this says!" Well it's the same here only the t-shirts are in English so I know for sure they don't make any sense.
Here's the formula for a successful Korean t-shirt: take a noun, a verb, an adjective and a couple of prepositions, mix together in a hat, dump on the table, make a shirt! "Freedom? High country best is love." Why not?
Bottled beer is cheaper than canned. As an American all you have to do is walk up to a pretty girl and say, "you're beautiful" and she's all over you. Want to go farther than that? Better talk to mom.
Interesting country.
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