101 Interesting Facts about Korea

1. red lights and road signs are only suggestions, not requirements (buses run red rights all the time if no people or cars crossing)
2. majority of shops and restaurants are franchises
3. when 1 thing works, it is replicated many times....rare to see unique, new ideas...(in my area, there are 10 fried chicken places and 15 cell phone stores and 10 kimbap places...yet they keep making more of them...)
4. korean drink early and get drunk way earlier than americans....wasted and stumbling by 10pm
5. after midnight, many are already done drinking...so eating and cafe is common at this late hour
6. korean never hold the door for others
7. koreans push and shove all the time on buses and trains...
8. rarely will you be let to go first in any line
9. many times u will encounter that the clerk or cashier of the store is actually the owner as well
10. english here is quite good when it comes to storeowners
11. korean kids are cute and somehow get uglier as they grow older
12. everybody listens to k-pop, from the bus drivers to cab drivers to young kids...u will hear a girls generation ring tone as commonly on a 70 year old ahjumma as a 6 year old.
13. everybody has a smart phone...
14. most korean food tastes similar
15. koreans are lazy and not detail oriented, especially with cooking
16. koreans love to eat snacks...any person, big or small or beautiful or ugly can't help but wait in line for some street food or fried snack
17. everything is spicy...most are not very spicy but everything has a lil kick to it
18. kimchi or pickled daikon is served with everything....
19. everybody loves ddokbokki, fried chicken, instant ramen
20. there is a love hate relationship with everything japanese
21. most store are unprofitable yet they don't risk being different to try to stand out from their competition
22. Paris Baguette is everywhere
23. Koreans love bread and coffee probably more than any other country in the world
24. soju is super cheap and drunk by everyone (its even in the teacher's office refrigerator)
25. Koreans litter and find nothing wrong with it..from the teacher's room to the streets of seoul, litter is everywhere and not super clean)