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flummuxt · Joined: 15 Mar 2007

Or after a night of drinking soju for $10 a gallon, you can get a small box of fried chicken that is mostly bones for $15. And they throw in a small plastic container of pickled turnip chunks for free!

Lekker · Joined: 09 Feb 2008 Location: Seoul

I like when I am running on the river and people are running in the wrong lane towards me, thinking I am going to move out of their way. I just charge them and they freak out and jump. Back home that would never happen. You would get shot. Luckily, guns are illegal here. That's another thing I like. I can actually walk into a public place knowing that I don't have to even worry about getting shot for no reason. Back home you never know when or where another shooting is going to occur.

Mr. Green

ardis · Joined: 20 Apr 2006 Location: Seoul

-restaurants are open really, really late or 24 hours. In my US hometown, everything closed at like...9.
-Bibimbap is really cheap.
-it's a LOT safer than where I went to college.
-overall, a lot of the foreigners are friendly if not the type of people I want to become super close with. It's nice just running into tons of "friend" acquaintances while out. Although I went to Itaewon last night and it really made me hate foreigners. To the bald, fat jackass who thought I was another Korean and was taunting me with, "Oh, teach me Englishee--I speak Englishee" after I turned you down because you were DISGUSTING: f*ck off.

The Grumpy Senator · Joined: 13 Jan 2008 Location: Up and down the 6 line

Nothing beats being able to sit on the throne with the hot water from the shower raining down on you!!!!!!!!!!

fusionbarnone · Joined: 31 May 2004

The Crane Games. If you can FIND one that you can win with decent prizes; gun lighters, table lighters, knives, toys made from spent AK47 ammo, etc. A friend of ours is a gun smith and he couldn't believe the stuff we won in those games(we won a lot). We found that even the "booby" prizes(cig. lighters easiest to win) cost upwards of 10-20 k won in Itaewon.

That to me was bliss in Korea.

ImInKoreaAintI · Joined: 12 Feb 2008

I don't know about you, but for me it's the minimal amount of black and spanish people.

Oh yea and the gun thing. In the US, you can get shot at school, here guns are almost non-existant.

The bad, lack of and strict regulations of drugs.

Mebertz · Joined: 16 Dec 2007 Location: Suncheon

Patrique · Joined: 04 Oct 2007 Location: Sajik-dong, Busan

dmbfan · Joined: 09 Mar 2006

sargx · Joined: 29 Nov 2007

Best thing in Korea:

Starcraft Tournaments on Television.

Also, the kids here are more innocent. Here they might try to sneak a cigarette before school if they're bad ass. In the USA they snort a line of coke in the bathroom.

MollyBloom · Joined: 21 Jul 2006 Location: James Joyce's pants

stevieg4ever · Joined: 11 Feb 2006 Location: London, England

the people - so cultured and open minded and welcoming to foreigners.

when i say 'i like kimchi' they love me for it.

Everywhere I go I am told how handsome I am. its brilliant

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Adventurer · Joined: 28 Jan 2006

What are things I like about Korea? That's a good question. I like the subway system. I like how they are expanding the lines to reduce congestion. I like that there are many attractive Korean females out there. I also like how the students are generally well-behaved and care about learning. I like the KTX. There are some Korean dishes I like.
I like the volunteers at Sukmyung University who are teaching me some Korean. I appreciate their efforts.