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[BS.Dos.]

... on a warm, early September morning, you see two of your high-school boys strolling casually to their next lesson without a care in the world, hand in hand.

Ahh, bless.

[Rae]

(for me at least, it's when) .... random old ladies start patting chalk off of me for minutes at a time.

[ciccone_youth]

you smell dried squid in public transportation.

[cruisemonkey]

... you walk out the door and the first person you see is urinating in the street.

[BS.Dos.]

...your co-teacher, Mr. Lee, insists that you take a look at his corns so you can tell him what you think.

[Yu_Bum_suk]

Bringing a DVD player into a classroom gets you the most gigantic smiles from the world's most depressed teenagers.

[sojourner1]

you see everything in Hangul as you ride an airport limo bus to your home away from home and that powerful gimchee garlic breath of your fellow passengers hits you in the face like a ton of bricks. That familiar strong garlic breath smell screams, "your in KOREA!"

[flakfizer]

Your plane lands and you are the only one who waits till the seat belt light goes off before getting up in a mad dash to retrieve your luggage from the overhead compartments.

[ciccone_youth]

At the baggage claim, you are the only young female wearing flats.

(real experience).

[tomwaits]

When you find youself asking where the good "hangover soup" restaurants are.

[stevie rotten]

....when you find wads of spit in the hallways and elevator/stairway of your apartment building.

[ciccone_youth]

Everyone around you is wearing pastel colors and baseball caps.

[sjrm]

instead of getting a beer and a hot dog at a ballgame, you get dried squid and a beer at a ball game

[Zutronius]

When you walk into the Officetel elevator and wonder which adjoshi decided to pee in the elevator.

[crsandus]

When you are walking in a subway station and get nearly knocked down by a 4 1/2 foot, curly haired, flower patterned blur.