[S] Ladies and gentlemen, we're here in Homeplus today (Homeplus- Korean Super Grocery Store: extra love, happy, fun times!)
on a holiday, uh, it's over right now.
This is Memorial Day. I want to show you first of all, (Visit their site for more)
all of this that we found here. You see that? Look at this: we found... Pantene Pro-V.
[M] Yeah, oh. [S] We found Vidal Sassoon.
We found over here... what's this? Head & Shoulders.
So, it turns out we bought a whole bunch of stuff in Canada, for no reason at all.
[M] Oh, you'll never find anything that you like in Korea. [S] Right. [M] Meh, meh, meh.
[S] So, we bought a whole bunch of junk, ah, in Canada.
We wasted a lot of our baggage space and a lot of our baggae weight, uh, to pack all these bottles that we don't really need.
Ah, to show you something that's interesting, though.
[M] It's here. [S] Uh, right here... [M] Shampoo. [S] Uh-huh. [M] This little symbol here means shampoo. [S] Right.
And...... [S] Which one means conditioner?
[M] None of these mean conditioner.
[S] Ok, we'll show you what we did.
First of all, we looked at the section, and we're like... how are we going to know which one's shampoo or conditioner?
Because this one right here doesn't really say much.
So, what do we do? Process of elimination.
We found one that says shampoo and one that says conditioner,
and we just compared the signs (characters) above it.
So we know that's shampoo. That one right there is conditioner.
So anything that has that symbol, uh right here, has the exact same symbol, so we know that this is conditioner.
Um, there you go. That's our long, boring video.
It's our angry video, actually, because we're pretty upset about bringing all this stuff to Korea
that we didn't really need. That's all for now, buh-bye.
Uh, here's an advertisement box that is motion sensored.
Listen to what it says. [M] Move closer.
[S] Now, I'm sure you don't understand what that is, but in the context,
those first couple sounds, make you realize, that this is the fart spray aisle.
(Martina laughs and so does Simon.) So, there you go. Very appropriate. See you later.
[M] So, this is the kind of coffee you can get in Korea.
What it is, it comes in stick form. You pour it into your drink, and then, you add hot water.
Now, you can buy this package and get that with it or you can buy coffee, and they come with mugs taped to it.
Two mugs. But, why get mugs taped to your coffee, when you can get a free salad salad spinner taped to your coffee?
Why get a free salad spinner, when you can get a free lunch pail taped to your coffee?
[S] What's that other thing taped to it?
[M] Um... strawberry iced tea. [S] Right.
[M] So everything in these stores has these specials where you can get things taped to it,
but often they don't make sense.
[S] So that's the story. Alright. See you next time.
[M] So, here you can see a woman making fish cakes.
They're actually over here on that stand, just on a stick,
and you just pay a dollar, 1,000 won (₩).
And over here, she is putting it in the microwave for you.
On the table, she just takes it and shapes it into a stick, you can see right now,
that's her shaping it.
And then when she's finished shaping it, that's rolling a hotdog up into a bun, she's gonna drop it into the deep fryer.
Pretty amazing.
This is where we are currently eating.
It's like a little place for you to stop and eat at the grocery store.
[S] This is the middle of the grocery store. [M] You can see that we're in a grocery store.
But... [S] The yelling that you hear in the background is people trying to get your attention.
[M] Yeah, so they give away samples. So you can see here, all the samples going on.
Pretty amazing.
[S] Very amazing and very delicious. [M] Uh-huh.
[S] Ok, so here's a grocery store. See how busy this is? This is actually during a national holliday.
Now, this is a Friday we're supposed to be teaching, but everything seems to be open. [M] Um-huh.
[S] And everybody seems to be shopping. [M] We should get crab, some of it, right?
[S] And here's a whole bunch of crab and lobster and those poor guys that are trying to get the hell right out of there.
But, they can't... um... too bad for them.
Anyhow, you see here, right at the end of every single alley they have, um, (clears throat)
did I say alley? I meant aisle.
They've got a whole lot of free samples to give,
Uh, lots of them, this puts Sam's Club to shame. (Sam's Club is similar to Costco.)
I'm talking about every two meters you get some free food, and a lot of it is very very good.
We just don't understand the directions on the back of them.
A lot of them don't have numbers, unfortunately.
So we just have to watch them for awhile, see how they make them, then try to copy them ourselves.
Um, so yeah, there you go. Hello kimchi!Alright, let's go.