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JongnoGuru · Joined: 25 May 2004 Location: peeing on your doorstep

20) Male Chauvinism!

All right, forget that one. How about ...

20) male chauvinism? Okay, okay...

20) The price of rice makkoli. Seriously.

schwa · Joined: 18 Jan 2003 Location: Yap

21. public baths / hotsprings
22. sitting on the floor in restaurants
23. ubiquitous internet
24. cheap & convenient taxis
25. smokers & drinkers arent considered social deviants
26. lucrative work & negligible taxes
27. no tipping
28. no beggars, persistent touts, or pickpockets
29. war & terror-free, even moreso after N. Korea's concessions today
30. 4 distinct seasons!

captain kirk · Joined: 29 Jan 2003

31. Lotte Original Chic Choc cookies.
33. With luck, toilet paper in the washroom.
34. Nobody seems to give a damn, about anything.
35. Who needs logic and imagination! Let's same same!

indytrucks · Joined: 09 Apr 2003 Location: The Shelf

joe_doufu · Joined: 09 May 2005 Location: Elsewhere

thirty-seven: the Lesser Panda at the Seoul Grand Park zoo. that thing is like a psychadelic raccoon, it's awesome.

kermo · Posted: Mon Sep 19, 2005 3:04 am Post subject:

thirty eight- cheap and easily accessible snowboarding

Cedar · Posted: Mon Sep 19, 2005 3:10 am Post subject:

39) People that pay 50 bucks an hour or more to sit around and have a conversation with me!

40) Non-stop traditional festivals every month throughout the year

41) Andong Mask Dance Festival (deserves a special mention, it's that good, also it starts on the 30th of this month!)

42) Korean traditional folk (not court) music

43) mask dancing

44) hapkido and taekkyon

45) the great friends I've met

46) all the stuff I've learned here (even when it was a hard thing to go through at the time)

JongnoGuru · Joined: 25 May 2004 Location: peeing on your doorstep

chipotle · Joined: 30 May 2005 Location: brooklyn

48.) knowing exactly how much something is going to cost (no tax)

(edited because i made a stupid smiley with my 8 and parenthesis.

JongnoGuru · Joined: 25 May 2004 Location: peeing on your doorstep

kermo · Posted: Mon Sep 19, 2005 5:50 am Post subject:

50) Free goodies with purchase!
Suh-Bi-suh

JongnoGuru · Joined: 25 May 2004 Location: peeing on your doorstep

51) Honest, understanding, reasonable and compassionate employers who will go out of their way to put themselves in our shoes, clarify every little detail and, when the inevitable mistakes or misinterpretations of contracts do occur, they're always -- always -- in our favour

Seriously? Okay.

51) The relative ease with which one can trump "the competition" simply by delivering what you promised and by doing people the supreme if rare courtesy of not jerking them around.

JeJuJitsu · Joined: 11 Sep 2005 Location: McDonald's

52) Being the tallest guy at a 300+ person social event. I'm 5'11".

Privateer · Joined: 31 Aug 2005 Location: Easy Street.

53) Cheap subway!
54) Late night pizza delivery
55) Free Korean lessons

Bo Peabody · Joined: 25 Aug 2005

fifty-six) No Indian summer.