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hi everybody i'm esther and in this
video
i want to talk to you guys about a big
difference
between prices in korea and america
well one thing that foreigners really
like when they come to korea
is that well when you go to a restaurant
or when you buy something
there's no taxes right there's no tax
that you have to pay
or when you go to a restaurant or you
know get your nails done at a nail salon
you don't have to pay tip right so
if i go to a restaurant and i order a
bowl of
kimchichi and it's 6001
that's exactly the price i have to pay
when i finish my meal
and that's really good right people like
that a lot
but the store is quite different when
you go to america
because you have to pay a sales tax
whenever you buy something
and you have to pay tip usually to
someone who's serving you or helping you
so in california which is where i'm from
the sales tax is about 10 percent now
this
the sales tax is different in every
state
and i think in some places there is no
sales tax
i've heard but yes most places you have
to pay
a sales tax of about 10 percent so
if i buy a nice coat that's 100
i'll have to pay 10 which is 10
so i'll pay about 110 dollars so
when i say when you see a tag that says
100
you should remember ah i'm going to have
to pay a little bit more
when i give my money or my card
and the same goes for tip we like i said
earlier we
have to pay a tip to anybody who helps
us
now um for example again if i go to a
restaurant
and there's a server which we call a
waiter right waiter or waitress
we have to tip them to say thank you
or maybe a hotel someone helped me carry
my bags
the bell boy i have to give them a tip
now a tip is usually about
15 15
so it's a little bit more than taxes in
california
but uh i say usually
because the amount of tip you want to
give
base shows how happy you are with the
service
for example usually people give 15
but sometimes if somebody was very happy
with the service
you know maybe the waiter was very nice
and the waiter got everything right and
they did everything perfectly
and the customer was in a good mood and
maybe they have a lot of money
they might give a very big tip to the
waiter
sometimes in some nice restaurants
people give 100
tips even though their meal was a lot
less
okay so again you can show how happy you
are
with the tip that you give now on the
other hand
let's say that you went to a restaurant
and the service was horrible
okay the waiter forgot your food
the waiter dropped your drink the waiter
ignored you
every time you tried to get his
attention
then you can leave a small tip maybe ten
percent
maybe five percent in some cases
if you are really unhappy if some people
are really unhappy with the service
they sometimes leave no tip and leaving
no tip means
i'm not coming back here again your
service was horrible
right then the waiter will get the idea
ah
okay i did a bad job right so remember
taxes and tips are something you have to
keep in mind when you
go shopping or when you eat somewhere or
when you
whenever you spend money remember the
price that you see
is not the price that you'll pay in the
end okay
so don't forget make sure you carry some
extra cash or have your card handy
when you go to america all right so i
hope you learned something in this video
and see you guys next time bye
you