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After a twelve-hour descent I reached my destination. As I cautiously walked step forward of my abyss that is the airplane, I directly get a hit of the cruel humidity of South Korea. The deliver still covered in clouds suggested that it would soon cool off only when of course it was e truly(prenominal) just a painted picture as the beads of sweat that started from my neck continued to race down the crack cocaine of my spine and down to my hip. I decided to travel to South Korea all in order to fully grasp and understand the culture that my family grew up living in. The first thing I noticed was how short everyone was, this range to an extra kick in my step and an obnoxious protruding self-confident walk. I was being stargond at like I was many elucidate of prized possession either because I was taller than everyone else or that I was a foreigner. Koreans chouse their foreigners to a blind eye even though I looked the come apart of a Korean, they could tell who the foreig ners were and they were definitely not fooled. It took some time in the beginning a little boy had the courage to confront me and display all the cool English phrases he had learned at hagwan. Hagwan is school on weekends taught by tutors and is very common that everyone attends these classes. Soon after, I was completely mobbed by Koreans of all ages, and my most memorable communion I had was with this man in his thirties. The man and I had an endless conversation about soccer, the economy and travel. I remember the first words he said were People put ont take trips, trips take people he later explained that he meant that people need to ignore their final destination as an endpoint, just rather the beginning of a new unexpected trip. After our conversation I pulled out my map and asked him to draw in Dongdaemun. He repli... ...laxing where Im from but here in Korea there are a equalize rules to follow. Again, status plays a role, similar to the handshakes, if an elder offers t o pour you a beer, you must hold your glass with both hands and if it is your first crapulence you should always accept it, as it is polite to. Also you must pass off 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 menstruation alcohol wont stop for a while. So shoot the alcohol and their rules when you see a group of coworkers stumbling down the streets in all-inclusive daylight.