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[mindmetoo]

I've been noticing lately men walking up to trees and giving them a good hard kick. This action mystified me for a while. My only point of reference was the drunken party scene from Rollerball (the real version) where people go out to a forest and blast apart trees with these flame guns for kicks. Is this the land of the anti-tree huggers? Do Korean men get their kicks out of kicking trees? Some kind of sublimation? Upset about the size of their John Thomas?

It was only the other day I figured it out. They're kicking the tree to dislodge some kind of acorn-like nut. So don't be too shocked if you seem some guy in a suit casually stroll up to a tree and give it a wallop.

[Gollum]

I have seen this, though it was pretty obvious what they were doing. I saw an old man doing this in Itaewon. He couldn't kick it very hard, so I gave it a whack when I walked by. A ton of nuts fell down, and a bunch of geriatric folks started clapping and whooping.

My debt to Korean society is now paid.

[manlyboy]

I thought it was because when they hit puberty they practice on trees first, so whenever they pass one they instinctively kick it to check for termites.

Comedy gold. Gold, I say!

[jazblanc77]

It's considered good luck to dislodge and take away the nuts that fall from the tree.

[mindmetoo]

[Corporal]

I always thought this was Korean-style exercising. Hey, if they believe wearing a wiggly belt will jiggle all your fat off, why wouldn't kicking trees be a good way to lose weight in the legs?

[komtengi]

���� or Ginko trees...

[jazblanc77]

[uberscheisse]

yeah it's gingko. there's tons of gingkos in my neighborhood. i was walking underneath one and all of a sudden 50 gingko nuts fell on my head. johnny ajushi was up in the tree shaking the branches... "oh, sorry, hahaha".

it was funny. if it was walnuts i'd likely be a little less cool about it.