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later on a twelve-hour descent I reached my destination. As I cautiously walked egress of my abyss that is the airplane, I instantly get a hit of the brutish humidity of South Korea. The sky still covered in clouds suggested that it would before long cool off but of course it was all just a painted picture as the beads of sweat that started from my neck continue to race down the crevice of my spine and down to my hip. I distinguishable to travel to South Korea alone in order to fully prod and understand the culture that my family grew up living in. The first thing I noticed was how short everyone was, this lead to an extra kick in my bar and an obnoxious protruding self-confident walk. I was being stared at handle I was some sort of prized possession either because I was taller than everyone else or that I was a foreigner. Koreans love their foreigners to a blind eye hitherto though I looked the part of a Korean, they could tell who the foreigners were and they were definite ly not fooled. It took some time before a little boy had the resolution to confront me and display all the cool English phrases he had erudite at hagwan. Hagwan is school on weekends taught by tutors and is very common that everyone attends these classes. curtly after, I was completely mobbed by Koreans of all ages, and my most memorable parley I had was with this man in his thirties. The man and I had an endless dialogue about soccer, the economy and travel. I remember the first words he said were People dont take trips, trips take multitude he later explained that he meant that people need to ignore their net destination as an endpoint, but rather the beginning of a new-fangled unexpected trip. After our conversation I pulled out my map and asked him to throw up in Dongdaemun. He repli... ...laxing where Im from but here in Korea there are a couple rules to follow. Again, status plays a role, sympathetic to the handshakes, if an elder offers to pour you a beer, you must hold your glass with twain hands and if it is your first drink you should always accept it, as it is gracious to. Also you must carry on both hands on the bottle when pouring for elders. Elders however are allowed to use one hand as it shows authority. Apparently it is also very rude to pour yourself a drink, as I learned out the hard way, my new friends disciplined me by giving me a couple shots of Soju. Needless to say, that was I all I remembered from that night. You should always leave some alcohol in your glass and keep in mind that this flowing alcohol wont handicap for a while. So blame the alcohol and their rules when you see a multitude of coworkers stumbling down the streets in broad daylight.