Funny observations in Korea.

Hobbes

Still here at the moment. Will post pictures later on.

Here are some funny/quirky things I have noiced here.

TV
On Cable TV they have a channel that just shows Star Craft games, another showing CS tourneys and another showing a MMORPG soap (I guess) of SUN "Soul of Ultimate Nation".

Driving
For a culture for prides itself on politeness that seems to get thrown out the window when it comes to driving.

For example, if you were to stop to let someone out of a side road you would end up having three cars behind you try to overtake (probably at the same time) while the the guy oncoming would call you an asshole. Rule here is not to stop to let them out as they will probably pull out anyway.

Toll roads
Korea seems to be full of toll roads as well. City to city you have to pay a toll. On each motorway they have rest stops that look exactly the same as each other. You would almost think you were in the same place.

Add to that, the toilets had a somewhat strange advert of two girls (looked about age 8) laughing at each other as an advert for the toilet itself. Appears the toilet has its own webpage.

Cute factor
They are crazy about cuteness. Nearly everything has a happy cartoon smiley character on it. Even the binmen play cutesy music from the truck.

frany

In addition, most of Koreans are vampires.
Even children go sleep late around midnight.
I will post some pics of nightscape in Seoul,the capital of Korea.





This is Seoul.





This is Han river in Seoul.





This is Han river as well.





This is around han river.

The tower above is Namsan tower.