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[chris_J2]

With the summer heat now well underway, I'm noticing the outside hall of my high rise apartment, stinks of rotten, fermented kimchi & red paste. Neighbors are leaving it in their food scraps, outside their doors, in plastic bags, for days on end. So much for leaving my aircon officetel, to get a breath of fresh air outside!

Does anyone else have this problem?

[yingwenlaoshi]

I like bathrooms that have that strong smell of mixed urine and kimchi.

I also regularly stick my head in those kimchi bins. Right after drinking 5 sojus and a few makkoli.

[Forward Observer]

Adjumas don't surf!

[VanIslander]

the garbage smells just like gimchi stew

days on end on the sidewalk in the heat!

added to the sewer stench, makes the cities of this country seem more third world than first world

[cruisemonkey]

I love it when I'm on a long, intercity bus ride and the guy sitting next to me pulls out the dried squid.

[moosehead]

ahh but what about the smell of dead fish ...

thanks for the memories K

[Robot_Teacher]

Yep, that's the character smell of Korea along with the foul rotten feces smelling sewers stinking up streets and alleys. Love it or hate it.

I notice every country has a distinctive associated common odor that travelers never forget with the big cities epitomizing those odors to new unprecedented levels.

[Kurtz]

Beats the smell of napalm.

Can't say I think Korea stinks too much. Sure, walking around Busan I get the odd open sewer smell but I can't say it's totally rank.

Try India, now that's like one of those mobile toilets at the end of a 3 days rock festival.

[chris_J2]

I've only been to India in winter months (Siliguri/Darjeeling). It was fine. Although I recall a butchers in a narrow, crowded alley in Dacca, Bangladesh, with dead rats on the dirty, dusty street, (run over by rickshaws), & uncovered, unrefrigerated meat for sale, covered in flies. One of the very few times I've ever backtracked, to get out & away from a revolting scenario. Janakpur in Southern Nepal was also an eyeopener. But again, this was in winter months.

Daegu was very bad for sewer smells near the central train station (not KTX, but the main metro central station.) Busan is way better.

[BigBuds]

[chris_J2]

'Naplam'? Is that a hot & spicy Korean dish, or a typo?

[fermentation]

As much as I like Korean food, it stinks like hell. The old people at my company bust out the kimchi and dwenjang for lunch and the whole floor smells like something just died.

[VanIslander]

[Emeliu]

jaemee eopgetta --.--