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[Newbie]

Some family members came for a visit last week, and for the second time in 6 years I went to see a traditional Korean dance/concert. It was awesome. Entertaining, well performed, and definitely uniquely Korean. We all thoroughly enjoyed it. (checked it out at "Korea House" next to Namsan folk village, if anyone's interested.) What amazes me is that rather than promote fine, truly Korean entertainment like this, all you ever hear about or read about is Korea's b-boys, "Rain", Korean soccer fans, and tours of Korean dramas. Idiots.

Sometimes in this vast Americanized jungle, it is hard to experience the real Korea. I was quite glad to get to this show and be reminded that Korea is not just yet the 52nd state.

[nicholas_chiasson]

because Korea thinks(and I'm not making a value judgement,here I also agree that traditional Korean music is fun!) that if tourists and foreigners must choose between the power-house of culture China or the just popular Japanese, Korea comes in a very distant third place. I think Koreans feel inferior in their national achievments in the past(a bunch of fighting feudal states when china had been unified for ages, or a colony of Japan/Russia/the US. For the most part Korea feels it has a chance to be in the future, what it never was in the past. A purveyor of culture, power, and thought for the region. I disagree, and feel Korea should make even more of their Scenic Beauty, Buddist treasures, and so on. Not discredited clones and crazy bad androgno-singers.

[that guy]

Several years ago, when my father in-law was alive, my wife's family and I went out to a mountain stream on a hot August day. We rented one of those raised platforms on the edge of the stream and sat there eating and swimming all day long. At 8am, within minutes of arriving, my mother in-law started cooking and my father in-law, brothers in-law and I started on a few beers and played go-stop. By noon my belly was full, my head was light, and I was floating a few km down stream on some kid's inner tube. Not a particularly "Korean thing", but one of my best memories.

[loose_ends]

Business club

[nicholas_chiasson]

a korean
(somebody had to think it)

[grnmle]

first thing I though, but she really wasn't that good.

[RACETRAITOR]

My crowning Korean moment?

When one of my friends was going into the army, I hung out with some punks and we drank until 4am, then we found an abandoned car and smashed the windows out of it. Then I crawled into bed with my wife and barfed over the side, and she cleaned it up in the morning.

[haute 4 teacher]

two words: *beep* Park

[endo]

I enjoy the drinking culture at night and especially the energy in areas like Sinchon and Hongdae.

As a young man this is still a lot of fun: samgyopsal restaurant, bar, club, norebang!




I also am starting to really enjoy the saunas. Especially when they're not crowded. If I was filthy rich I'd have my own jimjibang




In addition I also like those Korean drummers who also sometimes dance with that long flag on their head.



I love the mountains, to coast, the women, the subway, the han river, the bicycle paths, ect......ect......

[Newbie]

[esetters21]

[bgreenster]

Also not sure how "Korean" this is, but this winter I went on a weekend ski trip to High-1 with a group of Koreans. One of my best friends here is Korean, and I would go boarding sometimes with this sports group (I have no idea how best to describe them, come to think of it) that consists of mostly middle-aged Koreans.

First, let me say that I guess I had always (jealously??) knocked the way Koreans take their activities so seriously, but now I can understand why.

This one trip was for the whole weekend, so obviously we all had to spend the night. While the boarding was nice, the trip itself stands out in my memory mostly because of the people I was with. We made the trip caravan-style, even stopping at rest stops on the way to get noodles or whatever. Then, that night after hitting the slopes, we all got together in our minbak and had this incredible galbi meal, while drinking and just hanging out. The next morning we had another all-out Korean breakfast before heading back to the slopes. I know it sounds cheesy, but I think I will always remember how cool it was to chill on the floors of this minbak, with a huge spread of Korean food and drinks... I guess I'm mostly impressed by how organized everything was, and how open they were to including me in everything. More than anything in Korean culture, I love how everyone shares things with each other, and how warmly they do allow people to join them. I know a lot of people gripe about the Korean mentality, but I have yet to meet a Korean that doesn't treat me with this kind of hospitality after we have actually met.

[Frankly Mr Shankly]

Best thing I ever did? Leave.

And yet here I am.

[DrunkenMaster]

I blew snot everywhere in the gym shower, and then blow-dried my pubes.

[Dukey77777]