DO NOT move to South Korea. Don't get me wrong. I was born and raised here in South Korea,
And I love my country, and I love living here
Because it's very convenient and the people - they are very nice. I mean at least the people around me.
But if you're a foreigner, there are a few things that you need to consider before coming to South Korea
A few people, they fantasize about South Korea, like it's an imaginary world full of all the handsome and beautiful K-Pop stars.
But no, this country . . . it's like an actual country that ordinary people are living in, just like me
I have so many foreign friends who are living in South Korea, and they say they love living here
But because of some reasons they want to say goodbye to this country
First of all: The air (Fine Dust)
Today the sky is kinda blue
The air is fresh today,
but sometimes, I mean, so many times
The sky - the air pollution - is very serious here
Some people say that the fine dust comes from China
But who knows? I don't know
Or because of the cars
Who knows?
Yeah, but one thing is clear:
Our government
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is not doing anything. I mean they are trying to give us some solutions, but they are not practical at all.
Yeah, we all know that it doesn't work, so there's no solution
But whenever I wake up in the morning, I always check my Naver.
Naver is like
the biggest search engine here in South Korea and this is the landing page. This is the front, the first page
See here?
We always check the fine dust
How serious it is. The fine dust today is 'Average' today
So it means that I can just go out and do something. Sometimes when they say 'It's too bad' then we
cannot go outside and enjoy a picnic at all.
Especially if you have a kid or if you're planning to have a kid,
that's a really serious problem, you know? The kids cannot go outside
And they can't play with their friends. They're just stuck in their homes like that
Can you believe this?
Almost every household and families they have at least one air purifier
That's really expensive. You need it if you want to live here South Korea
Sometimes I really miss the fresh air
And secondly not everywhere here in South Korea, but It's just so crowded. Yeah, everywhere you go. There'll be so many people, especially
if a restaurant is really famous. Then you will see there's so many people waiting in line like crazy
Movie theater? Yeah.
Just so many people and subways? Yeah.
Buses? Yeah. Just everywhere you go you will see lots of people
And even at night if you go to Itaewon at night, like 1 a.m. or 2 a.m
You're gonna feel like "Oh my god. What is going on here?"
Because it feels like it's like hopefully daytime
There are so many people enjoying drinking and clubbing, you know?
So if you like that lively atmosphere,
Then Seoul is perfect for you
but if you prefer some quiet country nice feeling then
Soul is not for you. And you know about the song Gangnam Style?
Yeah, everyone thinks that "Ah, Gangnam is a cool place to hang out."
That's right, but I don't like Gangnam that much because there are just too many people. I don't live in Seoul
I live in Incheon. That's my city. It's by the sea
And it's not that crowded there. Let me go to the subway
3: Are you expecting something romantic? It's not gonna happen to you :/
It's all because of some ridiculous Korean dramas
I mean there are some romantic people, of course, romantic and nice guys, of course, but yeah, there are
some f*ckboi's too. I mean, I've met so many f*ckboi's in my life
But here I'm Korean, but you
are
Maybe a foreigner, right?
So the problem is that because you look different,
Your skin color, or your hair, and your language, your culture
Everything is different
So they may be interested in you because of that. Some guys or girls - they wanna learn English through you
And some people they are just interested in you, only physically
You know what I mean? If they feel like "Okay, now I know who you are, and I'm not interested in you anymore"
Then, maybe
They're gonna say goodbye
I've heard just so many stories from my foreign friends
so
Some people say that Koreans are cold and rude. Yeah, I watched some videos
And honestly as a Korean what I feel about this is that
I don't think Koreans are cold or rude, but just some people - they don't know
basic manners, like holding doors for the next person
Or when a woman is holding a really big luggage, and they asked like
"Oh, do you need help?" Something like that. We never do that because
It's very rare in South Korea to talk to strangers
Because we have this word 정 (jeong). I don't know how to exactly translate this to English cuz I feel like
There's no exact English word
Cuz Koreans, we may look a little
cold outside but we have very warm hearts inside. Some restaurant owners like grandmas
They curse a lot
They swear a lot to customers, but people go there because they know that that's the expression of love
That's because the grandma loves the people, you know, and the people - the customers - they love grandpa, too
Sometimes if you take the subway, you'll see some crazy people
some weird people screaming and yelling and
Yeah, just some people, they have no basic manners.
It makes me very upset sometimes. Yeah, so a few days ago
I was on the subway and there was one old man and
he was calling very loudly, and
There were so many people in the subway and he was calling like that. So I was kinda mad
So I asked him like,
"Excuse me. Can you please lower your voice? Because there are so many other people?" and he was like
staring at me. So I was a little scared
And I heard in the States if you're not good at working
They're just gonna fire you but here in South Korea if you're not good at working then they're gonna make you crazy
With their mouths
And especially if you're a woman, and you want to work in a Korean company,
It'll be very challenging because some crazy
bosses
they
Just talk about your appearance a lot. Like "Oh, you look very ugly today.
"Did you get some weight? You should not eat that much." Something like that. You know, that's really bad
I know, but it happens so many times, so many times
They talk about your appearance when they look like sh*t
And this is the last thing. The Internet in South Korea, it's really fast
You will see so many PC cafes here in South Korea
The Internet is amazing here. But in the meantime as a youtuber
I feel like there are just so many mean comments
so if you're not gonna do your social media, or you if you're not gonna do
YouTube stuff then you don't need to worry about that. But because I'm a youtuber and blogger
Yeah, I always get some bad comments, especially talking about my appearance
Yeah, they always say "oH, yOu lOoK very uGlY"
And whenever I read some article from Naver
It's crazy, the comment section. It's crazy. All the people, they are saying something really bad
about a celebrity or
the government, or about females and males and
If everybody - it seems like everybody hates everyone, sometimes. I feel like that, seriously
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