Why Seoul stinks in the fall
True story ~ as I was walking to work last Friday afternoon I felt something hit my head. When I looked at the ground, it was the fruit of a gingko tree. Luckily it...
Category: Oddities
Junk food backpack in Korea (과방)
Have you seen photos of Korean school girls carrying packages of junk food shaped and worn like backpacks? I haven’t seen one personally but I saw a few photos online like the one below:...
third most expensive city in the world
Last year, Seoul ranked second to Moscow as the most expensive city in the world. This year, it is now “just” third. I’m not familiar with the methods used for ranking cities, but I...
materialistic?
I took this very long personality test and was quite surprised with the result. Materialistic? Who, me? Guess I better take the test again… There are other personality tests on the website “Similar Minds”...
The tree in Ildong
This is something you don’t see everyday. Most of the time trees are cut during construction. In this case, the road is built around the tree. Tree lives. Along road 47 in Ildong, Gyeonggido.
Couple clothes: cute or corny?
Couples here in Korea often show their “coupleness” by wearing the same shirt. You see newly married couples wearing the same shirts at the airport. You walk along Myeongdong and you see more couples....
A cat with two faces
Have you seen a cat with two faces and just one body? It was on the frontpage of Daum but since I can’t really understand Korean well, I had to search for it on...
Squat Toilet
Korea is one of the most modern countries in the world. Still, it’s fun to know that “squat toilets” are still used in this part of the globe. The last time I used a...
