Long ago in a distant land, I joined a youth group full of crazy kids.
I became besties with one of them.
This crazy cool Korean guy with long hair and a quick sense of humor.
Kakung (repeated)
We hung out all the time, got through varsity together, began working at the same time,
and then…
I moved to the other side of the world, and shortly thereafter he moved away from the
home land too.
A few months later he met a girl, and now, well now they’re getting married, in Korea.
No not that Korea, the friendly one.
South Korea.
It was time to get the crew together again.
Graham, the Tall ladies man, Matt the bearded Wizard, Jin the wisecracking foreigner, and
me, the dude who is always filming stuff.
After a fourteen hour flight.
We are finally in Seoul, Korea.
Yay!
To celebrate this guy, finding a wife.
Who would have thought Jin would be the first one to get married?
Everyone.
*Laughs
'Merica
So where you taking us Jin?
We're going to the food place.
We're going to a food place, that's very descriptive.
We're going to a Korean food place.
Yeah.
To have some real Korean...
Well it's all Korean here so...
You order whatever and I'll just eat it.
It's the soup.
You have to, you first have to find out which one, which way is the front.
Thicker is a back.
Korea is very good at wrap.
The meat and this I think this is a special kind of kimchi.
YOLO
Then you wrap it.
Then you eat it one bite.
So what's this chicken?
Eat it one go, just put it in your mouth and chew.
Successful first meal in Korea, that was really delicious.
I hope he doesn't suffocate in the toilet tomorrow because, that's what people do.
First reaction to having Korean food is too spicey.
That's my main concern about Asian food in general.
Where are we going?
Cheated!
Too weak!
Hello.
Does the microphone have a name?
It's very fluffy.
Yeah, it's called Mike.
*laughter
You think that's funny Graham?
That's hilarious Marc.
Day number two.
It's our first full day in Korea.
Graham thinks it's a beautiful sunny day.
It's amazing weather look at it.
We're walking through the shopping district of Korea now, it's really cool.
We're about to go and see the Twins VS the Bears.
What game is this?
Baseball!
We're walking around Gangnam district.
This place is famous for plastic surgery according to Jin.
That whole building is a plastic surgery place.
They normally have this package deal on the tour.
So, you come to Korea, you take a plastic surgery, while you're in a bandage, the people
are full of bandages, you go tour.
So if you see like a mummy walking around that's probably a Chinese person having plastic
surgery in Korea.
We need food.
They're gonna make a fire in the middle of our table.
And it's a wood table so that's gonna be very interesting.
You have to cook your own food and then pay extra for it.
SO $13 for 160g of meat.
This is Soju.
It's a Korean alcohol.
It's about, I think it was eighteen percent.
So how you normally drink this, you put it upside down.
You hit it.
I don't know why they do it, but you spin it.
So if you spin it you can see all those sparkly things.
So we just try to make it even, all those alcohol particles.
Korean thing to do.
Then you open it up.
And you give the first shot to a very special person.
Cheers!
Cheers guys!
We're home.
It is, ten...
10:20.
And we're gonna try have a few hours sleep and then we're gonna go to the 1AM fish market.
So tired, jet lagged, but so far, so good.
Really awesome.
We are headed to the fish market.
Noryangjin.
I'm hoping to see some crazy fish selling skills.
Let's go.
I can already smell something fishy.
Welcome to fish market.
That's what you wanted.
Woah!
Look how big those crabs are.
Smells super fishy in here.
If you can't get it here, you can't find that fish in Korea.
See now what they do.
Before the auction, they actually looking for what is the actual physical items.
They all observing it.
So all the bidders actually have a chance to look at it.
And make up their mind what they, how much they're willing to pay for that quality of prize
Next week on Srizzil.
It's time to get some Korean culture.
We visit Gyeongbokgung palace dressed like royals, admire the view from the Seoul tower
and peak over the North Korean border.
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