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[Rofpo]

...to get used to the smell here. Seriously, I lack words to describe to people back home the daily assault on my olfactory.

[Stan Rogers]

If a stink follows you around chances are you stepped in dog poop.

[War Eagle]

Criticism thinly veiled with a quesation. Classic Dave's

[Beeyee]

[Paddycakes]

I know what the OP is talking about.

Don't worry, after a few days you won't notice it anymore...

[Rofpo]

[ewlandon]

it's called trash and it smells much worse in the summer.

[Threequalseven]

Often when I'm outside, I'll walk into a huge plume of air that can be described as smelling like nothing less than raw sewage. You will never not smell it when it happens. But you do get used to it, i.e. it doesn't come as a complete shock anymore once you live here for a while.

[transmogrifier]

You never get used to it. Not really.

[Nolos]

I can handle the trash smell and even the sewage smell sometimes...the one thing that gags me is the garlic fumes/breath on people. I had a dentist once hover over me for an hour working on my tooth blowing garlic fire down on me. I couldn't take it.

[young_clinton]

[toby99]

You'll never get completely used to it, but you will adapt.

It's 'one of those things' that makes the Korea experience what it is, and you just have to take in stride and laugh it off, similar to drunken adjosshis (death stare, sucking air through the teeth, constant spitting), cackling packs of adjummas, and onion salads at Costco.

[mscoop1085]

It's just Asia man, you will get to immune to the shitty smell after a little bit. I didn't realize until I had friends visiting and they were talking about the nasty smell. I guess I forgot about it and have gotten pretty immune to it now.