Some Random Things we Like About Korea

• refillable side dishes in restaurants



• public transportation- inexpensive and efficient



• being oblivious about work gossip



• no crime



• fashion- (it's the 80's here, and we like it)



• strawberry season



• being celebrities wherever you go



• bamboo



• "nori bangs"- literally translated "singing rooms" may sound hoaky but they're serious fun!



• still learning new cultural facts every day (today I learned that babies receive gold on their first birthday, then one day they sell it to help pay for college!)



• discovering new vegetables and fruits



• "jimje bangs," spas...stay as long as you want for $4 or so



• no tipping EVER, it's insulting to them



• hair stylists



• parties on our roof top



• sparklers....indoors to celebrate birthdays



• coffee machines...$.20 in the machine, and there's your dixie-cup full of sweet coffee. These are anywhere you go.



• we can watch tv on our cell phones



• crazy flavors of toothpaste (pine, green tea, bamboo, apricot, etc,) and our all natural toothbrushes



• still discovering new things in our neighborhood after all this time



• stationary stores....you can't understand until you go



• listening to Ethan order pizza over the phone in English, with a Korean accent. I plan to catch it on video next time.



• dinners once a month with our group of foreigners and English-speaking Koreans



• the flowers that will soon be blooming


• Korean children...though a million times cuter when they are controling themselves
• bowing