Casey Li asks:
I would like to know how people spend their time in South Korea.
Like, here in Australia, we sometimes just stay home and be lazy,
some families like to go out for some family bonding time and much more.
So how to most Koreans spend their weekends,
holidays, and just days off in general?
You forgot the part where she says
“ooooh, you so nasty” ANGG
Ooh, what a lovely question!
And this is very appropriate for this time of year
because summer time is coming out so you’re going to see
a lot more people out and about
Yes I feel like we’re going to talk a lot about
park life because it seems like a big focus for Korean families.
It’s very fascinating how park life here is different from what I’m used to.
Ok, there are tents in every single park that you go to.
SOO many tents!!
We’re talking, like, camping tents. It is in-tense!
Oh boy.. Can you say anything else
about that?
I am very con-tent, with all the…. TENT-uality!
Ok, good try.
But seriously.
I mean a normal tiny park near your apartment
has tents everywhere.
People will bring their own tents
into the park to camp.
But it’s not like camping where you go on like a three-day adventure
Because when I used to think about tenting in North America
You have to be like—
haha tenting in North America. Woo! Woo!
Not like, that kind of tenting, like, going camping with a tent
whenever you use a tent, you have to be
in the middle of like flin-flan nowhere
and you have to like nail your tent in
and you have to have your anti-bear rifle with you
because you are one with mother nature at that time
you have to pull the food up above a branch to keep
the animals from eating it
But it’s like here in South Korea you have to go to like
a normal park in the city it’s like
you want your little square of land so you can enjoy it with your family
you put down a tent, you’re like this is my little square
and I’m going to sit here because its very populated
so many people come there.
Yeah, I mean if you go to the Han River
Good luck because at this time of year,
you’re just going to have tents everywhere.
Like, you can’t even play on the grass!
Like, “Let’s play a pickup game of football or soccer”
IMPOSSIBLE.
They also have a lot of those little
fold out blankets that families bring,
and you don’t actually have a lot of grass to deal with,
so people are using little foam, sponge-y mats
and they’re laying it out on like, the cement
or underneath, like, the pine tree area?
Meanwhile, there’s like a little piece of grass that no one is
actually sitting on, because you’re not allowed to sit there.
And also, like, a lot of people bring their own
little picnics. So like, they’ll bring food and just go picnicking in a tent
OR what’s even cooler about that is that if you’re in a park,
and you forgot to bring some food, you could just order delivery.
And the scooters will just drive right up to you
and you’ll be like, “Oh, hey scooter guy it’s me, that
ordered the fried chicken.”
It’s pretty fantastic. Awesome.
Fried chicken in a tent in the middle of central park.
Yeah, so that’s pretty much a family activity.
Like, I’ve seen some couples do that,
but I feel like that’s more like young families with their little like
bubble guns,
and flying kites. KITES. I’ve never seen so many
people fly kites. There is like a kite-flying culture in Korea.
Now if you want to take a date to the park
rather than take your family to the park
then what we also see a lot of in the parks
is a lot of couple bikes.
It’s so sweet! SO many people on their
couple bikes, and—EXCEPT
you see the guys in the front—
the guys are haulin’ ass and the girls are like
“Oh my goddd”
Like really, I’ve seen it like, I’ve seen it so—
I’ve seen a girl like, fully texting on her phone,
with her feet up on the bar while the guy’s like
While she’s texting with one hand and
using the whip with the other hand
like “Move it, B****!
So, if you don’t have a family to hang out with
and you wanna hang out with your loved one
or other person you’re dating
you’re probably gonna go to a coffee shop
because it seems like on the weekends
the coffee shops are like over-run with couples.
And the thing is it’s not like there are like,
one or two coffee shops
there are coffee shops EVERYWHERE
like when we did our YG skit in the teddy café
when we looked out the window and across the street
there was a Nescafe and a Starbucks like,
three coffee shops so crammed together, and there’s
more everywhere!
See, we talked about this before
in Canada those coffee shops would probably go bankrupt
if there were so many coffee shops that close by
but in Korea it’s like
You can’t seem to have enough coffee shops.
They’re like multi-leveled. It’s like one coffee shop
that takes up three levels, guys.
And, it’s packed with people, coupling together.
That sounds kind of, sexual.
And the whole thing that’s really odd about the coffee shops here
is that I’m used to coffee shops in North America having like
comfier chairs you can sit in
but here is like they are so crowded with these
tiny-ass tables and these hard wooden chairs
and its just
so over-run, and the idea is like,
well we don’t need big chairs because if you have big chairs
then so more people cant come in here.
So many people in coffee shops.
Whenever we wanna go out and have fun
and not necessarily spend a lot of money
we go to a convenience store.
Because what’s cool about the convenience stores here
is outside they’ve got tables and chairs
rickety plastic tables and chairs that you can sit down in
with like a dollar soju bottle that you bought
little paper cups for like 20 cents
and you can just buy a whole bunch of junk food and
sit down for a couple hours and just enjoy yourself.
Yeah, I see a lot of guys doing that.
I think a lot of them will also go to the PC bangs
and play a lot of online games
and then they’ll like, go downstairs and they’re like
hanging out in the patio
And we see a lot of middle school students doing that as well,
because they’re probably like, coming out of their tutoring center.
I don’t really see a lot of like stuffy Gangnam girls out there
going like, “Oh my gawd, let’s go out to the GS25”
But it’s mostly like young people that don’t care about looking
high class and whatnot.
Although, we still manage to see couples wearing their
couple jogging pants and jogging shirts and
their like, jogging hats, while sitting on the patio
it’s like “I’m still trendy while looking casual.”
The third thing we wind up seeing a lot of people do
is going to the malls and department stores,
especially on the weekends.
These things are crammed and crowded.
Yeah, one thing that I forgot to mention about malls
is that they’re usually vertical in Korea. Right.
Yeah, I completely forgot about that.
So it’s not like a giant horizontal strip where you like walk around.
There are like seven or eight stories, sometimes twelve stories of like,
a whole bunch of different stores.
Most of the ones we go to are like fourteen floors high.
And the fourteenth floor is usually like a movie theatre.
So there’s like a movie theatre upstairs,
and below that you have like all the sections divided up
and they usually have one level that’s dedicated to, like, kids.
So there’s a mall near our home, where there’s like
Pororo Land? He’s a penguin. And even though I’m far too old
for it, I really want to go to Pororo Land and enjoy some
Pororo icecream and go on the little Pororo train.
There are little Pororo trains that you can sit in.
It’s like Lotte World, like the theme park?
But it’s like a mini-version for children.
So it’s kind of cool! Because parents can like, hang out in a mall,
and like, dump their kids off and be like,
“Have fun-“ “Take my children so I can go buy stuff”
I was gonna say “Go have fun Jimmy”
Like, how many Jimmy Koreans do you know?
“Ji-Mi!” I don’t think there are that many Jimmys.
Although, Jimmy would be a cute Korean name! I know.
“Ji-Mi!”
So, if you’re going to visit Korea,
in the summer time coming up soon,
and you want to see a little slice of like, Korean free time,
and family life,
I would recommend going to the Han River,
You can rent a bike while you’re there,
perhaps you should spend 30 bucks and get yourself a tent,
and hang out with your friends,
Drink some food,
Eat some drinks,
You know what I’m saying.
No, no one caught that, it’s fine.
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where we tell you about tents and camping. Yeah,
Ok, I really wanted to get that Iron Man tent we saw,
at Home Plus.
Guys, it’s like a kid’s tent, it’s like 30 bucks, and it’s tiny.
How am I going to fit in that thing?!
You will fit in it, and we’re going to bring
Spudgy, and Meemers,
and the whole family is going to go to the Han River
and we’re all going to camp out in this little tent for the day
and it’s going to be AWESOME!!
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Happy Birthday to Hind,
Happy Birthday to you! To you!
Hind, we heard it was your birthday on June the 8th,
and your best friend wanted us to send you
this special message.
Simon, cue the special music while I sing the special message,
You ready?
To my most favorite person,
I wish you,
the happiest,
of birthdays.
Good job Simon.
I’m so musically talented.
Happy Birthday Hind!
Your best friend is awesome,
she actually bought one of our
perk packages from the fundraiser,
and she wanted us to send the message to you.
So shout out to you guys in the
UAE!!!
And I hope you had a good exam week
and happy birthday. Happy Birthday!
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