Five Things I Don't Understand About Korea

After three years here I still don't understand it all. What about you?
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Re: Five Things I Don't Understand About Korea

In a sea of dumb foreigner video blogs, this one actually manages to stand out as a shining beacon, a lighthouse if you will, of banality.

You have taken a subject where the scope is almost endless, and yet have picked 5 of the most mundane things imagineable to comment on.

Actually I am going to be generous and say 1 of the things you talk about may be worthy of mention, although it is posibly the most obvious thing to bring up as literally everyone I know here mentions it all the time.
So, I will give you point 4 - The inability of Korean people to acknowledge the people around them is rather odd in a country where most of the population live packed into cities.

1-  Milk 'smells funny'? Of all the things to mention, you choose this? Umm, maybe change brands? I buy milk every day, it smells like milk.

2 and 3 - are you kidding? You live in a foreign country, with different ideas about food and fashion. You seriously cannot understand this, after 3 years? You may as well say 'They eat rice a lot, even for breakfast. Where I'm from we eat different things. I can't understand it.' 

5 - K-pop. Some foreigners like it. It kitchy, it's silly, it's funny. People who come here are young and keen to show they are open to fun new things. It's not rocket science.

 

Seriously, in a country so different from the west, with so many strange customs, you could not have picked duller things to talk about.

You talk and seem to think like a Will Ferrel character, it's embarrassing. 
Keep up the good work.

Re: Five Things I Don't Understand About Korea

I agree with kam1nsk1 on pretty much everything he said. As for milk, I've never noticed any weird smell during the number of times I bought some while in Korea.

As for the shiny suits, well obviously a different country with different customs might have different tastes... Yeah, I know, for Americans that's something hard to understand, difference, but it does exist.

Concerning the K-Pop, I personally don't like KPOP simply because I don't like pop music in general, but if foreigners who enjoy pop music in general enjoy KPOP, it's probably because KPOP is catchy and good. What's so hard to understand?

I don't understand the intro of your video with the Chinese sounding theme and the Chinese looking characters. Isn't Korea a different country from China? Oh, wait, both are Asian countries, right.