Wednesday, July 20, 2005

Live from Seoul

With two hours to kill in the airport before my flight leaves, I thought I might comment on this trip to Korea for all my lovely readers. First off don't get a package with a Japanese travel agency. They assume you love shopping, take you as often as possible, and of course only to the expensive Japanese tourist rip-off spots, and baby the shit out of you, I mean it's nice to have someone tell you a little about Korea, but she didn't have to check us into the flight...

Korea, overall, is a very cool place. Aesthetically, it resembles Osaka in a number of ways, although from a cultural viewpoint, the people are very different. They have more in common with New Yorkers than with Osakajin. This is demonstrated excellently by the three old woman and two dudes who shoved past me to get onto the subway when I get was getting off.

Korea food is great, but never in all my years have I seen so many Dunkin' Donuts in such a small radius. We counted a total of 5 within a ten minute walk from our hotel.

So, in conclusion, Korea is a great place to visit and a delicious place to get fat. Now, if you'll excuse me all this blogging is interrupting my waiting time.
BTW: Pictures are forthcoming.


Wisdom of the Day: Don't drink the water.

1 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

We went the other day to some Korean pavillion where they were painting it. Sam helped paint. We're probably going to be invited to some Korean Cultural Centre events, 'cause she was the only Euro-Canadian who helped (not that she's really a Eur-Canadian).

Some guy from Korea was there to paint it, a Buddhist monk who's considered a living national treasure of Korea. It was cool. He was nice, spoke no English.

Should be lots of fun. We live in a Korean-dominated area of Vancouver, come to think of it.

Matthew

7/20/2005 12:24:00 PM  

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