"Only in Korea"

There are some things that happen in this country that just don't occur in other places. I started to keep a list of events that I witness which make me think to myself "only in Korea":

+ Small children (age 7ish) walking or playing alone in a dark park in Seoul and no one sees reason fro concern.
+Complete strangers approaching you in the shower room (where we are all naked) offering to scrub your back for you because it's one of those hard-to-reach spots.
+ A woman passed out on a bench in the apartment lobby with one shoe on and her purse lying upside-down on the ground next to her (completely unbothered ofcourse)
+Employees try to quit their job and their boss simply tells them they can't....and they listen.
+It is ok for kids to take candy from a stranger on the subway.
+you can purchase designer wallets of the street.
+ Drunk men will pass out anywhere...even the middle of the road.
+ You can always count on someone trying to help you within 45 seconds of looking lost.
+Kids probobly work harder than their parents.
+You go in coffee shop planning to relax and read util you hear the latest dance mix blasting through the place.

Rachel and I started a weekly event call "Discover Korea Thursdays". On our first Thursday we went to a Buddhist temple called 조 게 사 (Jogyesa). It was like a sanctuary inside the city, with Buddhist chanting and the smell of incense. I actually felt as though I was back in Nepal or Thailand and not in Seoul. The locus picture is from that day.