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[nobbyken]

Here's my short, but not exhaustive list of things came to mind:

1, In my neighbourhood there is a "Pooh" shop. I nearly crashed when I saw it, it sells Winnie the Pooh stuff, thankfully!

2, There is a shop called "Sold Out".

3, Our local GSMart in Suwon has a dancing homer guy to guide traffic out of the basement car park. He is stick thin, always happy and always dancing in a manner that would Michael Jackson envious.

[ScottyG]

Babes mostly. I remember a few times I felt I was in a twilight zone or the bermuda triangle of babe overload. one time it was in starbucks at apgujeong. i looked up from my computer and EVERY woman on the top floor of the place was a stunner. it almost made me puke like stan on south park.

another time was on the subway. the car was filled with so many babes it made me cross-eyed. the cool thing was a visiting freind from back home was with me at the time and we both looked at eachother and said at the same time something along the lines of "my god...this country has a problem."


other things that make me smile.....uh.....peppero day.

[lucas_p]

The 소소 motel.

[mrsquirrel]

The fact that the sign which is right next to where our student cross guard stands was crushed flat by a car out of control in the snow across where she normally stands.

It was then straightened back up, still slightly bent, and she still stands under it quite oblivious to the fact that if she had been when it happened she would have been killed.

I point it out to her everyday and she just laughs about it.

Lovely good humoured student.

[aldershot]

my adult class. a student of mine is convinced that a kimchi extract, when injected into dead lab rats, will bring the rat back to life.

i asked him since he ate so much kimchi everyday, if he would live forever. he was confused.

i told him i'd bring the extract back home and bring my long-dead grandpa-pa back from the dead. poor guy was confused.

amazingly enough, they do indeed have a kimchi elixir. unfortunately, it does f*ck-all.

[ajgeddes]

Every time a male student mentions his 팬티.

[Newbie]

1. Store signs that say "since 2003"

2. Little kids who just go nuts when they see that I carry Korean money and not Canadian money

[aarontendo]

Ho-ddok or however it's romanized. I love those fried oily pancakes in winter.

[mrsquirrel]

[RACETRAITOR]

[ajgeddes]

[Justin Hale]

[theatrelily]

The local business owners in my neighbourhood.

I have lived in the same neighbourhood for 4 years and tend to go to the same restaurants, stores, street vendors and cafes all the time.

Koreans are great about rewarding loyal customers.

Among my favourite places, my local "Dunkin Donuts" adjumma gives hugs and the occassional free munchkin doughnut, and the other coffee shop occassionally throws in free cookies. When I was sick, they threw in an extra herbal tea bag in an empty take-away cup so that I could brew it for myself at work later.

(Mind you, in return I tend to run cookies and baked goods down for the staff on special occassions. )

The pet shop throws in free cans of soft food for my cats when I buy the dry stuff so I walk their dog (belongs to the shop, and never goes out unless I take her) a few times a week.

I know the gestures aren't overly impressive or frequent, but they are just enough that I love my location.

It's nice to have a place that feels a little like home, rather than that place where my apartment is at.

Makes me smile every day that I get off the bus after work.

[boatofcar]

My students.

Seriously.

[DRAMA OVERKILL]

On one of those extremely rare "I hate Korea!" days when I feel I've about had enough, this picture makes me smile - a Korean goon getting punched in the face by a white guy. Yay!!