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omichelle15 from Texas asks
What are some things you should not do in Korea.
Well, this is pretty easy.
Like, very easy.
Let's see. Ahh. Murder!
Buying Japanese Electronics
Spitting on people's faces.
Kicking kitties.
Stealing babies.
Setting villages on fire.
Criticizing Super Junior.
And the last thing is that you're not supposed to NOT watch our videos.
You can be arrested. Punishable by death!
Many bumsmacks could happen!
It's very taboo.
I mean, you guise are ok because you're watching,
but what about your friends and family?
Have they subscribed to our videos?
What are you gonna do for them?
I feel like this list could go on forever.
Maybe they mean something more specific?
Yeah. Let's start with some cultural things.
Ok. So one of the things that you SHOULD NOT DO IN KOREA
is walk with shoes inside the house.
Our very first day in Korea, we came off of a 14 hour airplane flight,
and six hours of waiting at the airport
We get to our new officetel. We're with our co-teachers
We're floored! We're exhausted.
We didn't sleep at all on the plane
But when we came into the house, we walked in with our shoes
And right away they were like WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!?!?!?!?
YOU HAVE TO TAKE YOUR SHOES OFF!
And we're all like AHHHH and back-pedalled
So we learned very quickly that the little foyer
means "take off your shoes immediately"
yeah, and they have the same thing in a lot of restaurants as well
like, if you're sitting on the floor,
you'll see a lot of slippers and shoes,
take off your shoes. If you wear your shoes
IT IS SUCH A BAD THING TO DO!
Ok, another thing would be sitting in the elderly
or pregnancy seats on the subway
It's not necessarily some huge thing that you're gonna go to jail for
but there aren't really a lot of signs,
there's just a tiny sign,
so a lot of people will just get on the subway and sit down
and if you sit there you might get either
massive stink-eye, or someone might yell at you.
There's like the old guy and old woman police
and they will scold you if you're sitting in that seat
So do not sit there, unless you're dying,
and even if you're dying, think twice.
So while we're talking about subways,
I think we should also talk about busses and subways,
You've gotta be careful about using your loud, foreign voice
Not your teacher voice
If you talk loudly on a bus, especially an intra city bus
that doesn't have a lot of people talking,
people will shush you.
We've been shushed lots of times
Not me, Simon of course.
Well I have the booming MAN VOICE!
Well this is kind of a funny situation,
because if you're on a subway,
you'll see a lot of ajusshis and ajummas talking on their phones
and they're like, four times louder than us,
but because they're older, they have that right
yeah. No one will say anything
But because we're foreigners and we're young,
and we're loud talking, we will get shushed.
I can't wait till I'm an old guy
so I can be loud and sit wherever I want
and be like "WHUTCHA GONNA DO ABOUT THAT PUNK??"
Ok, there are also a lot of food and drinking customs that you should not do,
but I think that should be reserved for, like, a separate video,
A totally different video.
Let's just talk about something simple about food.
So if you're eating with a bowl of rice
and you've got chopsticks and you don't know where to put them,
Do not stab them into your rice,
You can put them anywhere else in the table,
just do not stick them in the rice,
stick them up your nose,
it'd be better than sticking them in the rice.
Don't do that. Simon is incorrect about that.
How do you know?
Sticking them up your nose is awful!
I've tried before. Oh gosh.
Tastes like boogers.
And the last thing we're gonna talk about is hand gestures.
Whenever you call someone over,
never do an underhanded, like this or a finger pulling over,
whenever you want to call someone over you have to
like, doggy paddle them over like this.
No, you don't have to do, like the full shoulder
you don't have to full swim, but you can call them over this way,
and never with your palm facing up.
Your palm always has to face down.
This and this is kind of like reserved for animals and dogs,
so it's really insulting, especially if you're at a restaurant
and you're calling over a little grandma
if you're like "oh, come here" or "over here"
That would be just like, whoa, so rude.
And I don't even know why that's reserved for dogs
because Spudgy does not come over here like this
Like, the only thing that brings Spudgy over is food
WHO WANTS A BONE? WHO WANTS A BONE?!
And then he comes running.
So, don't dangle bones in front of old ladies if you want them to come over
Now there are so many things we didn't talk about
in terms of traditions and customs, especially in terms of drinking,
But I think that this needs to be a totally separate video,
we just want to prep you guise for like
basic social things that you don't learn about in a book.
And then maybe next time if someone asks about it,
Maybe we can do a video about drinking
and the hand gestures. DON'T DO THIS!
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Ohh...that one screwed up big time.
Whoa. Oh! We were on such a good roll. RRRGGHH!
Silence. WTF happened to the music YO?