Monday, July 12, 2010

Top 35 things I will miss about Korea

It was going to be the top 10 things I will miss abotu Korea but it quickly turned into 25, which then turned into 35. So here they are in no particular order...
  1. Service (anything from more of the product or something as random as 1 fork taped to the side of your cereal box or anything for free. Also comes int he form of free drinks at restaurants or possibly even more of the meal)

  2. Heated toilets in winter

  3. The “hello's” on the streets

  4. How willing people are to help

  5. Being surround by mountains 24/7

  6. My co-workers

  7. Boys carrying designer purses

  8. Traveling

  9. Jap Jae noodles, Mandu, Doncass and Shebu Shebu

  10. EMART escalators

  11. Cooking our own meat on a grill in the restaurant

  12. Eating with chopsticks

  13. Unset prices that change based on who you ask

  14. Seeing girls of all ages in heels all the time (hiking, the beach, etc)

  15. How safe I always feel no matter what time it is

  16. Cheap haircuts

  17. Cheap doctor visits and medications

  18. Being chauffeured around by taxis

  19. Getting snail mail from friends

  20. Broken conversations that are somehow understood with the use of hand movements

  21. Wearing slippers at school

  22. Eating out costing less than eating in

  23. No tipping

  24. Heated floors

  25. Bowing

  1. Vitamin c drinks

  2. Korean commercials

  3. Atlas bars and Mi-chew

  4. Funny English translations

  5. Call buttons on tables

  6. K pop

  7. No commercials during tv shows- only at the end for 15 minutes

  8. Korean step and aerobics classes

  9. Construction being done so fast

  10. And of course...the KIDS!

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