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This post is to give everyone a little idea of what is “cool” in Korea. As we continue to venture out around Korea we have found some interesting things that seem to be very common around Korea. For example, Koreans have taken the term “TV dinner” to a whole new level. Almost every restaurant in Korea has several TV’s for patrons to watch while eating. I guess this shouldn’t surprise me since Koreans watch TV while driving, while riding in the subway and pretty much everywhere else you can imagine. Many Koreans carry around wireless, handheld TV’s or have TV on their cell phones.

More than TV Koreans seem to love their cars! Car enthusiasts like Brother Clunz would find this funny when you look around the streets of Korea and the “coolest” car you see is a Tiberon!

Another aspect of Korea that I just do not understand is their concept of advertising. You cannot walk down the street or an isle in the grocery store without having someone barking at you to buy something. I have never seen so many grocery store employees in a store at one time. It seems like there is an employee around every corner trying to lure you down the isle to buy some random product. On Sunday, we saw this yellow fellow to the right in our local grocery store. It’s funny though because I looked all around him and could not figure out what he was trying to promote! Nevertheless, we got a good laugh (and picture) out of it.

These are just a few more of the random things we have found here in Korea. One of our coworkers says the slogan for Korea is “If it doesn’t make sense, that’s how it’s done in Korea!” We have found this to be quite true and quite entertaining.

NOTE

I added a lot of new pictures to our food page so check it out!

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