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Fast-Food Delivery
If you lived in South Korea, you’d never have to
leave home to eat. Most restaurants will deliver
straight to your apartment via motorcycle drivers
—who are notorious for speeding through traffic
to deliver the food on time. And after you’re
done eating, you can just put your dirty dishes
outside your door because the delivery guy will
come for them later. That’s pretty awesome.
Almost all restaurants deliver, even McDonald’s,
which gives new meaning to the term “fast
food.” And if someone starts craving a few Big
Macs at five in the morning, that’s no problem—
McDonald’s will deliver 24/7 . After all,
hamburgers are the cornerstone of any nutritious
breakfast. And if you ever do visit South Korea
and decide to call up Mickey D’s in the middle of
the night, you might want to try some of the
Korean specialties, such as the Bulgogi Burger
and the Shanghai Spicy Chicken Burger.

Male Makeup
Despite a reputation for being uber-macho, South
Korean men are obsessed with cosmeticsturnsturns out that South Korean men are spending
close to $900 million a year on makeup. BB
cream foundation is the product of choice, but
facial cleansers, anti-ageing moisturizes, and eye
creams are also extremely popular. There are
even TV shows dedicated to the subject of the
manly makeover. Up to 20 percent of the male
population, known as the grooming tribe, use
makeup regularly, but it’s not so much about
fashion as it is business. The South Korean job
market is extremely competitive, and wearing
makeup is all part of the game. These guys want
to make good impressions in their job interviews
by hiding their blemishes and looking like
celebrities. It looks like in Korea, makeup really
does make the maTheThe Boryeong Mud Festival
Since 1998, millions of people from around the
world have been flocking to the Boryeona Mud
Festival , which is exactly what it sounds like. For
10 glorious days, revelers ignore everything their
mothers ever told them about playing in the mud.
Originally conceived as a way to advertise mud
cosmetics, this popular Korean festival has
grown enormously, attracting three million
people in 2012 alone, including 22,000
foreigners. The gray clay is shipped from the
Boryeong flats to Daecheon Beach where people
take part in mud massages, mud photo contests,
mud marathons, and best of all, mud wrestling
contests. Top it all off with concerts and parties,
and you have a festival that will cheer up any
stick-in-the-mud.

6 South Korean Robots
Robots aren’t just the stuff of sci-fi movies
anymore. In fact, they’ve invaded South Korean
classrooms. In 2010, the South Korean
government launched its “R-Learning” program
to fill schools with automated assistants like
Engkey . There are two different version of this
robo-teacher. One comes equipped with a TV
screen which displays the face of an English-
speaking teacher—who might really be as far
away as Australia. The other model uses voice
recognition technology to help students with
their speaking skills. In addition to Engkey,
preschool teachers use Genibo, a robotic dog
that teaches dance and gymnastics, as well as
iRobi, which keeps track of which kids are in
class and asks them how they’re feeling.
However, not all Korean robots are friendly tutors
who want to help you get better grades. Some
just want to keep you in line. In 2012, a prison
in the city of Pohang became home to the
world’s first robotic prison guards. These guys
come with 3-D depth cameras and two-way
wireless communication systems that allow
correctional officers to speak with the inmates.
Sometimes the robots are controlled by guards
with iPads, but sometimes they patrol the cell
blocks on their own by following navigational
markers. Thanks to “pattern recognition
algorithms,” the robots can identify illegal or
dangerous activities, such as gang fights or
suicide attempts, and then call for human
backup. Fortunately, these guys can’t touch the
prisoners, and they aren’t armed.
However, the same can’t be said for the SGR-1.
Deployed in 2010, this guy patrols the
demilitarized zone between North and South
Korea. Unlike its prison guard brethren, the
SGR-1 is packing some serious firepower,
including a 5.5-millimeter machine gun and 40-
millimeter automatic grenade launchers. The
SGR-1 can’t fire without human permission, but
it’s pretty clear that the scientists who invented
this droid have never seen Robocop .

5 Romantic Holidays
Valentine’s Day is popular across the world, but
in South Korea, it has a little twist. Unlike most
countries where guys have to worry about
flowers, candies, and cards, Valentine’s in Korea
is all about the men . This is a day where women
show the love by giving chocolates and gifts to
their husbands/boyfriends. Of course, everything
changes on March 14. Known as White Day , this
is the holiday where men buy gifts for the girls,
but there’s a catch: A guy is supposed to spend
three times the amount of the gift he received on
Valentine’s. And, as you might have guessed, the
gifts are often in the color white.
However, these aren’t the only lovey-dovey days
in South Korea. In fact, the 14th day of every
month is a romantically themed holiday, or at
least a day for reminding singles how unlucky
they are. Some of these, like Kiss Day (June) and
Hug Day (December) are pretty self-explanatory.
January 14 is Diary Day, when couples and
friends give each other blank diaries. The
sappiness of Photo Day (September), when
couples take photos of each other, is rivaled
only by Yellow Day/Rose Day (May), when lovers
dress in yellow and give each other, yep, roses.
The saddest day of all is April 14, depressingly
known as Black Day. This is when singles mourn
their lack of love by eating “jajyangmyeon,”
which are sticky, black noodles, all the while
hoping to meet someone special before the next
romantic holiday rolls around.

Age
Traveling to South Korea is a bit like traveling
into the future. The moment you step across the
border, you automatically turn one year older. In
Korea, a baby is one year old at birth, instead of
zero as in most other cultures. And things get
even trickier, since everyone has the same
birthday . . . sort of. After the New Year passes,
everyone in Korea automatically ages one year,
even if they haven’t had their actual birthday yet.
It gets even more complex for people who were
born just a few days before the New Year. If a
baby is born on December 31, it’d be one year
old. However, after January 1, that same baby
will automatically turn two.
So if you’re unsure of what your Korean age is,
subtract the year of your birth from the current
year and then add one. Or if someone asks your
age, you could probably save a lot of hassle and
just tell them what year you were born.

The Biggest Church In The
World
While the Yoido Full Gospel Church might not
have the largest building in the world, it definitely
has the biggest congregation. As of February
2013, this Seoul-based church had close to one
million members. On any given Sunday, 200,000
of the faithful will attend one of the seven
services, and that’s not counting the additional
200,000–300,000 watching on TV in other
buildings and satellite churches.
To keep his spiritual flock spiritually fed, founder
and pastor David Cho employs three orchestras,
12 choirs, hundreds of assistants, missionaries
in 67 countries, and interpreters to translate his
message into 16 different languages. If you want
to hear one of his two Sunday sermons, you’ll
have to show up a whole hour early, or you
won’t be able to find a seat. Unfortunately,
Pastor Cho might not be preaching much longer
as he’s currently being investigated for breach of
trust and tax evasion. He must have missed that
whole “Render unto Caesar” part in the Bible.

Baseball Was Established As
A Political Move
Introduced in the early 20th century by Christian
missionaries, baseball has become one of the
most popular pastimes in South Korea, and there
are several interesting differences between
“yagu” and the American version. For example,
teams aren’t named after cities but after
corporations, so there are the Samsung Lions,
the Kia Tigers, and the Hyundai Unicorns. Korean
baseball games feature female cheerleaders and
fans enjoy kim-bobs, which are rings of seaweed
stuffed with crab, lobster, and sausage.
However, the most interesting thing about Korean
baseball is its dark past as the tool of an
oppressive military dictatorship . After staging a
coup in the late ’70s, General Chun Doo Hwan
declared martial law in South Korea. Chun wasn’t
the most popular guy in the world, and he was
constantly having to crush revolts and murder
protesters. He even shut down all the colleges in
South Korea to prevent dissent. When none of
those strategies worked, Chun came up with a
much more devious scheme.
The Korean Baseball Organization was
established in 1981 as a way for people,
especially young men , to let off steam. By
encouraging people to put down their picket
signs and pick up a pair of thundersticks, Chun
was hoping to divert attention away from his
regime. A former defense minister was appointed
as the baseball commissioner, six teams were
created by government-friendly businesses, and
Chun started improving his image by throwing
the first pitch at every game. People eventually
got sick of him anyway, and he and his cronies
were thrown into prison. Talk about striking out.

Blood Type
In South Korea, blood is a big deal. It doesn’t
just deliver oxygen to the rest of your body—it
determines your personality. People in South
Korea are automatically stereotyped thanks to
their blood type . While this belief originated in
Japan, it has taken a firm hold in South Korean
culture, and it might even make a difference in
who marries whom.
There are positive and negative traits assigned to
each blood type. People with Type A are thought
to be conservative and punctual, but they can be
also obsessive, uptight, and a bit introverted.
However, they think that cheating on their
romantic partners is wrong and will thus be
extremely loyal. People with Type B are a totally
different story. While they have some good traits
like creativity and passion, they’re also willing to
cheat on their partners, lazy, and impatient.
There’s even a South Korean movie called My
Boyfriend is Type B , a romantic comedy about a
Type A girl who falls for a Type B boy and has to
deal with his impulsive nature.
As for Type AB, they’re supposed to be cool and
under control, but they can be elitist, harsh, and
judgmental. Type O means a person is ambitious
and athletic. They want big things in life, and
nothing is going to stand in their way. On the flip
side, they’re pompous and egotistical, but once
they decide to commit to a relationship, they’re
generally pretty loyal. So if you ever visit South
Korea, you might want to figure out your blood
type first—someone is going to ask eventually.

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OP, dontchya know that north Korea is Best Korea![/size]

noted: I didn't compile did list ( copy and paste things)

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MudRaker:

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OP, dontchya know that north Korea is Best Korea![/size]

I prefer south Korea(my reasons)

did u even finish reading my post cos its ain't up to 3mins u replied.

amani337:

I prefer south Korea(my reasons)

did u even finish reading my post cos its ain't up to 3mins u replied.

lol did not read.

but good reason to dump North Best Korea memmes

amani337:

I prefer south Korea(my reasons)

did u even finish reading my post cos its ain't up to 3mins u replied.

northern koreans are psychopath,I can never go there..... Anticipating my first seoul visit