Korean Job Discussion Forums

[JackSarang]

Having been here for 2+ years now, Korea doesn't feel all that "foreign" to me anymore. Its kind of hard to explain, but there are certain smells/tastes that sort of snap things back into perspective, or make me say, "Yep, this is Korea."


My short list:

Drinking Pocari Sweat (even though its Japanese)

The stench of Samgyupsal/Kalbi and Soju on the subways after 7pm. (Emanating off the nearest wobbling Ajoshi.)

The cloud of grilled octopus leg stink on the Gangnam Station strip.

[Zed]

Bondeggi smell for which I have been known to cross the road.

[Crois]

The smell of the kids after they havent had a shower for a few days. Damn a few of them like dong...

[the_beaver]

The gentle waft of sewage that hits the unsuspecting nose.

ciga fucking rette smoke.

[Son Deureo!]

The olfactory cacophony of the shee-jangs.
Kimchi breath on the subway.
Sizzling mok-sal and kalbi over a charcoal grill.
Bundegi.
Sewage gas from random bathrooms, even in some of my favorite Western-style bars.
Lemon instead of lime in my rum & coke.
Stale cigarette smoke in the stairwells and corridors, as well as the PC bangs.
The the sweet slush in the bottom of pat-bing-su in the summertime.
The sweet, sweet nectar of soju cocktails.

[VanIslander]

The smell of oranges.

My students shove orange-scented erasers under my nose, chew orange-flavoured gum and eat oranges before class. Plus, I pass fruit vendors everyday on my walk to the academy and, although there's strawberries in the air these days, piled high, oranges are the year-round staple, sure to be there.

Definitely, oranges.

[bibimbap]

ondeng.

<gag>

[sadsac]

The wonderful scent of manure being spread over the newly ploughed fields. Ah! That wonderful down on the farm odours.

[Mr. Pink]

Open sewage...

In the summer, riding the subway...makes you WISH Koreans used something under their arms.

The smell of a drunken adjushi sitting next to ya on the bus/subway

Kimchi breath on the students/korean co-workers. Some people just REEK.

The smell of cheapass cigs that smell like bc bud.

Hmmm I think there is a 1/10 for good smells to bad smells in this country.

[peppermint]

Dwengjang. . .

[ed]

for me it's the smell of a rice field on a hot summer day......

sometimes in the summer I cruise through all the field roads outside the city on my bike and just breathe deeply........

[dogbert]

[Saxiif]

The smell of fertilizer everywhere
God I want to move to Seoul...

[lush72]

moxa (sp) there is an oriental medicine place a few doors down from me!

[Jensen]

Diesel exhaust, back alley urine smells, cigarette smoke all at once...