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[Drew345]

Here are just a few small observations about ways Korea is better than Thailand. Nothing too serious here, just little things.

Korea has restrooms and trashcans in the subway stations. Thailand has neither (I hear Korea is cutting back on the cans).

Korea avoids using too much plastic. Thailand give plastic bags ?and straws? with every product.

Korea allows transfers from bus to subway and has route maps on-line. Thai busses are a much more confusing.

Korean beggars concentrate on the Koreans more than the foreigners. Opposite is true in Thailand.

Korean is easy to read (but hard to speak). Thai is hard to read (but easier to speak).

Koreans stand on the right side of the escalator and allow people in a hurry to walk on the left. This has yet to be observed in Thailand.

Korea does not use staples in food preparation. Often plates and food bags are held together with staples in Thailand.


Of course there are ways that Thailand is Better than Korea --

In Thailand you buy the phone you want, buy a $3 SIM card and you are set. In Korea getting a phone seems a major ordeal.

In Thailand you can get a haircut that is not shaved up the sides and flat on top. In Korea it is hard to avoid that triangle haircut.

Thailand ATMs are free 24 hours a day. In Korea they charge 600 Won if outside banking hours.

In Thailand the movies and showtime information is shown in English and all latest releases are showing. In Korea it is hard to know what is playing and you need to book online anyway cause the only 1 foreign movie was sold out hours ago.

In Thailand you can buy musali cereal, equal sweetener, and deoderant at any store. In Korea you need to find the black market under namdaemon.

And of course, Thailand has foot massages.

[itaewonguy]

lets not forget thailand has the weather, the food, happier people, the beaches, its cheaper, more variety of products and flying out of there is cheap...

[viipuri]

>>>>Koreans stand on the right side of the escalator and allow people in a hurry to walk on the left. This has yet to be observed in Thailand.

- to be fair, this is a relatively new development in Korea over the last several years, when i arrived, it never used to happen. There was an advertising to push this...

[shaunew]

Thai girls

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[koon_taung_daeng]

thailand is way better as far as nightlife and transportation and everything else except money

[mrsquirrel]

Korean drivers are safer.

They may be bad at driving but I haven't seen any dead bodies, cars wrapped around lampposts on the wrong side of the road, dead babies that were meant to be held in the mothers arms whilst riding a motorbike, massive multiple car car accidents, bodies dragged 20m down the street under an upside down tuk-tuk and coming to a rest against a tree where somebody has managed to get stuck between the tree and the tuk-tuk body count - 7 number of vehicles 2 (one tuk-tuk one motorbike)

I know they are bad but they certainly don't have the complete lack of common sense or regards for anybody else that I've witnessed on Thai roads.

Koreans don't have fark orf car stereos fitted to the back of their shite pick-up trucks with huge exausts waking me up at 2am in the morning.

Korea doesn't have the weather or the food.

[Oreovictim]

According to my coworker, who spent a month in Thailand, Thai women have more curves. Has anyone here been to Thailand? Is this true?

[mrsquirrel]

Women have noticeably longer legs here. A lot longer and bigger norks, or at least they appear bigger, could just be padding.

The university girls don't wear uniforms here which is a shame, Thailand they wear rather sexy black and white uniforms. Inner BKK they tend to be rather tight and short skirts.

[Fishead soup]

I remember when Koreans use to say the scenery on Cheju island was better than Phuket. I admit maybe the beach in Cheju island is better than Pattaya. but no one goes to Pattaya for the beach.

[DaeguKid]

That is not true...mom, daughter and son go to the beach in Pattaya. After all Dad needs somewhere for the family to go when he is "golfing!"

I would be in Thailand in a heartbeat if the money was better there. The food, the weather, the people, the clothes, access to great vacation spots. I have been a number of times and it is by far my favorite country to travel in in the world. Thailand is the band-aid for Korea. While being here months on end, you bleed.....and Thailand heals the cut.
DK

[Drew345]

Just to even things up here a bit, I prefer Korean food and weather to Thailand.
In a Thai restaurant, vegtables are few and far between. A Farang oriented Thai restaurant may have some vegtable dishes, and those are tasty. Korean food comes with 4 or 5 vegtable dishes set out and refilled.
The temperature in Bangkok was hotter than Seoul everyday during the last two months, and raining too; and this is not even the hot season in Thailand; April and May will get up to 40 and higher. The heat has broken now in Seoul, but will not break in Thailand until, well, won't break except for maybe one week in late December. I'll take 4 seasons and be happy with it.
Just my oppinions. It is easy to defend Korea while I am sitting here on the Maekong River in Nong Khai, Thailand. Anyway, happy to return to Korea next week.

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