We're back Korea
We're back in the Nasty studio
And Simon and Martina from Korea ask:
What are the differences between Toronto and Seoul?
Can you talk about your experiences while you were in Toronto?
I mean, these aren't going to be like, you know...
EPIC MIND-BLOWING DIFFERENCES THAT YOU SHOULD WRITE DOWN
Or maybe you should.
These are just little things that you can observe if you've been from one country or another.
And this isn't trying to be any kind of like an angry fight-starter about like:
Canada is better than Korea. Korea is better than Canada.
Because that happened in our Korea vs Japan video
I'm pretty sure that happened in our Korea vs Australia video as well
Yeah, people were like Angry.
It seems like if there is a "vs" in there
the nationalistic pride swells up
and you have to start being racist and start yelling something
We're just trying to talk about the different things that we've observed
That's it.
I don't want to see that in the comments.
So settle down.
So stop frothing at the mouth.
Now let's start with something serious and important
Like going to the gym.
Very different in Canada than it is here.
Oh man, I miss the Canadian gyms.
I never thought I would say that.
Because I was never a gym goer in Canada.
I only went for...
I was going to say rehab...
That's not the right word.
Physiotherapy?
Physiotherapy
Yeah, you don't say "rehabbing my knee"
Because it was addicted to running.
I feel old and out of [S]*Cricket* *cricket* *cricket*
Ok. When we were in Toronto
We joined the "Good life", which is a chain of gyms
that are attached to supermarkets
And their gyms are about everywhere
Yeah, they are everywhere. And they are 24/7 some of them
We joined them for just two weeks.
And we were just blown away by the differences
First of all: they are huge.
There is so much equipment.
And there are like double machines of the same equipment
While in Korea in the gyms that we've gone to
There is a lot of equipment that's missing
Stuff that I'd like to be able to use, but just doesn't exist here
Well Korea has a lot of treadmills.
A lot of bikes and a lot of ellipticals. That's like their thing.
Well not a lot, well like, there are a lot more treadmills.
But the thing is also... The big difference that we noticed is:
In Canada, when people are at the gym, they really bust ass.
Like they're dripping sweat, they're on the treadmill running their asses off
They're are on the elliptical pumping it
While... here... people... walk really slowly.
We've discussed this before. It seems like there is this concern
amongst Korean people, that they are going to get beefy
If they work out too hard.
And I'm like... [S]Working out for two hours today at gym [M]Watching Korean dramas
Let me answer my phone. What ye doin? Oh, nothing...
Just at the gym. [S]Just walking, just working out.
It's kind of frustrating when you actually go there to push yourself.
But anyways, the point is that... [S]Because we go there and are like UGH THREE
UGH FOUR [M]Name five songs on your work-out playlist.
Go. Tyler the Creator's "ramba"? or"rumba"? [S]That's "Jamba"
El-P's "Up all night"
Wonder Girls "Like this"
2PM "A.D.T.O.Y."
Oh, that's such a good song to work out to.
Like haru jongil ni saenggak ppuniya ppuniya
Well I'm at like four and you haven't said anything yet. [S]RJD2 "temperamental"
Crystal Castles [S] Fucking buttons "brainfreeze"
That's a bad word!
This conversation is over.
Something else we really like about the gyms in Canada:
temperature control
Whoa, things you take for granted.
Like what... I took this for so... Ok.
In the summertime in Korea our gyms are like 35degree celcius.
Sweltering hot
There are a lot of air conditioners in our gym
They've got five of them in the ceiling
But they are just for display.
How pretty they are up there
We heard that it's good to work out in the heat
So that's good.
But now when we're in our gym and it's like 8*C and we literally can't pick up the dumbbells
Because it's so cold that our hands are freezing
I don't understand where this concept of working out in shitty conditions is good for you
You know what? It's also good to work out on the back of a hungry bear
Because if you survive, that makes you really strong. [M]Motivation, right?
Yes. That's garbage.
It's frustrating. Now that we've been to Canada and joined the gym
the temperature control: it's not too hot, it's not too cold
There's nothing blowing on you
You sweat but you're not cold. Your muscles aren't seizing.
Why can't we have that here?
Seems like this no temperature control thing happens all over Korea
For example, anyone who is attending high-school in Korea or is a teacher in Korea
Will know that you have a heater in a classroom
that is basically like a blow dryer
That is just blow drying you
But then when you go into the hallway, there is no heating.
So, the entire place is freezing, everyone is being like *shivers*
And then you rush into the classroom and you blast the heat because you are freezing.
And if you're too close to it, you roast; if you're too far from it, you freeze.
You've got to find somewhere in the middle
where you don't die.
I don't like that...
When we were in Canada, every mall we went to, every bus we were in,
Every time we were on the subway
In Korea you run into the subway and you peel off all of your clothes because you're dripping with sweat
within like 30 seconds.
And the subways are packed with people, so you don't even need heat,
because you people-heat
It's just that in Canada they know how to control the temperatures...
Ok, we've been ragging on Korea for a bit now.
Let's say something positive that we really love that we've noticed.
Ok, the thing that I really... [M]Lost your train of thought on?
What were you trying to do there, Simon?
I don't know [M]What were you trying to do Honey Bunny?
It's ok , just keep going.
People missed you and your strangeness.
I'm surry~
What were you trying to say?
What we really noticed about Korea is that things get built here very fast.
And taken care of as well.
While in Canada we noticed that there are a lot of roads that have a lot of holes in them
And cracks in them
And buildings are falling apart in a lot of places
And there is not a lot of new stuff being built from what we see
While in Korea things get done so fast.
Ok now, wait a second.
One thing we have to say is that we totally understand that there are different governments
Different tax payers dollars
different unions
Regulations and what not
Right, like Canadian people have to wear hard-hats.
And Korean people are like: I'm smoking and I'm using a blow torch
Which we actually saw
We saw it out of the window.
I know that the situations are different in each country
But just observing basically: things in Korea get built quickly and just all of the time.
Ok, now a simple example I want to say:
The sidewalks near our home
These are the cobblestone sidewalks which people installed
and every year the wintertime happens
And the flooding happens
And the bricks will kind of pop out
You know what I mean?
When there is a plant that always pops out and you're like "How did you get here?!"
In Korea there will be someone jumping on that right away
They'll dig up that hole, they'll re-cement it
And that's it. They just touch it up.
But there are places in Toronto, like we went to UOFT that we re-visited again
That have had cracks in the ground that I remember form way back when we were in school
That has only gotten bigger.
Well they are historical cracks
They have a lot of depth and history, and characterization
Uh... 200 students have rolled their ankles in this crack since then
Did you know that famed poet Margaret Atwood actually sprained her ankle there as well.
Did you know that Smoky the Squirrel died in this hole by falling into it so deeply he couldn't get out
and he starved to death.
Poor Smoky the Squirrel.
Even across the street from us a lot of people noticed in our livechats that we have raining lights falling being us
Yeah and everyone is like "Is it raining?"
They've totally changed that now for a whole bunch of multi-colored LED panels
And that was done in two days.
In Toronto that would be for 6 years.
They would have to grow the LED lights and nurture them and put them in the elementary school first
before... It's just So slow...
I know, I know, I'm sure there are unions that we don't know about
that are creating problems
I know like one line and this line and then that one...
There should be so many more lines.
However I have recently thought of a theory about Toronto's crumbling road system
Um... In Korea, have you noticed that there are no 16-wheelers?
And there are no snowplows [S]When we were in Toronto
when we saw the first 16-wheeler I was like "I haven't seen this in so long"
I was driving in Pickering and the 16-wheeler comes by me
And there are ice chunks flying off of it so I'm there like "AAAAAAAH" the whole time.
Because it's scary.
So we can imagine
that's what disintegrating the roads all of the time
And snowplows.
When it snows in Korea there are no snowplows
It's just drived through until it mushes up
and it mushes away
You know but in Canada when it snows, it's serious, son.
So they scrape the sidewalk.
Wouldn't that affect it?
I would imagine so.
And remember how dirty our shoes were?
We got salted to the knee caps.
We were assaulted with salt
Oh, as you get older your jokes get cheesier.
You've been saying that about me for five year, baby. I'm just bad jokes, ok?
Just deal with it.
I'm just bad being funny.
Nipple squeeze.
So if you guys have traveled between Canada and Korea
And you had any of those small experiences "Hm... I didn't appreciate this until this happened"
Let us know in the comment section below. Leave us a comment about your hatred for kiwi salad dressing as well
What? Who said that?
We're going to talk about some more differences that we've noticed in our blogpost as well
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Yeah... [S]Ginger molasses cookies
We had those.
Well you had them more, biggy.