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[soakitincider]

What thing have you seen in Korea that will stay with you always? Mine was rich businessman face down, expensive suit, regugitated kimchi and rice everywhere, pidgeons eating the vomit. What a sight!

[aboxofchocolates]

[Rusty Shackleford]

[Olivencia]

The look of shock on the faces as we screamed by in my Korean friends car with my shirt off and hanging out the window yelling at the top of my lungs. He then pushed it up to 120 kilometers per hour and it tore the breath from my face!

[aboxofchocolates]

[Steelrails]

[Mr. Pink]

Hmm probably my first month in Korea going with some coworkers to this area in north Seoul where we all sat in this room drinking beers, then this girl came in and started opening bottles with her vag.

It has been over 12 years since that happened and the image is still with me when I think of the craziness of my first year here.

[peppermint]

My scrawny American coworker perched like a deranged hood ornament on some random Korean's Tucson, wearing a red devils t-shirt and screaming "Oh Pilsung Korea!" to hordes of cheering Koreans during the World Cup. Good times!

[rocket_scientist]

Purple and green cabbage used in a decorative landscaping fashion.

Kangwan-do hills that looked exactly like those misty California hills paintings.

[Unposter]

Far too many:

1. Seeing skinned, dead dogs on top of small cages of dogs at Moran Market.

2. Seeing an octopus cooked live under a glass cover as it wriggled and pulled its tentacles in as it cooked.

3. Being served live fish with its sides cut and sliced into pieces for eating. Watching my Korean friends eat said fish while it flopped around on the plate.

4. Doing soju with Korean gangsters. The gangsters were lined up on one side of a table and I did one shot of soju with each gangster one after the other. They were quite impressed but then I got too drunk and I threw up when I got home.

5. Watching (and participating) in cleaning up around City Hall after Korea beat Portugal to go into the second round of the World Cup. It was one of the most orderly, respectful and patriotic acts I have ever witnessed. I can only imagine the mess and carnage that would have occured after such a victory in many of our home countries.

6. A Korean woman once ruthlessly insisted that I take 10,000 won from her while I was waiting for a bus at a bust stop because I was wearing ripped jeans. Deciding that her money should go to someone who really needs it, I went to the immigrant shelter in Seongnam and gave them the money. The man in charge there at the time showed me a closet where they keep urns full of the ashes of individuals who had died in Korea but neither had the money to return their ashes to their families nor the money to properly dispose of their bodies in Korea. It was quite a sad site. The man told me that my money would be put to a good use.

The list could go on and on...

[Kikomom]

[rumdiary]

My first night in Korea I met up with all my coworkers and we went to a Buy The Way and drank beer and soju. At one point two men in suits came along, drunk and barely able to walk. They got into an argument which turned into a wrestling match. Eventually one guy pinned the other to the ground. Then he curled up and went to sleep on top of him. The guy on the bottom was still awake a he kept flailing his arms and legs as the dude on top slept soundly. All this happened on a very crowded and bust sidewalk and people just went about their business like it was normal.

[MollyBloom]

My proudest moment in the motherland was when the adjummas at my local kimbapchunguk straight up kicked some high school kids out of their seats so I could sit down. Then they hooked me up with 9 kimchi mandu (and not 6 like in a regular order).

[nathanrutledge]

[young_clinton]