Because I am the best judge of it.
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Since leaving Korea, I have been asked so many times what I loved most. Here is why Korea is wonderful.
- Friends: Expats here came for adventure and to learn a new culture. If you have nothing else in common, you still have this. Co-workers are similar in age and you live close to each other so it is like a second bout of college. Except now you are making good money.
- Travel: Asia is vast and you have the chance to try so many things in and out of the country.
- Crime: There is so little crime in Korea! I have lost my phone 10 times and I have always gotten it back. I have never had anything stolen even when I leave my laptop in the cafe while I use the bathroom!
- Group fooding: Korea is a sharing culture when it comes to food. It is easy to get a table for 8 people at every place.
- Cheap Booze: If you didn't drink in Korea, you did it wrong.
- Cheap Sport Viewing: Baseball tickets? $10. Jersey? $10. Chicken? $10. Beer? $3. Step it up everywhere else.
- Delivery: Food, groceries, electronics, you name it; they will bring it to your apartment for next to nothing. You can set a time online for Mcdonald's breakfast delivery and it's free over $9. Cheap, easy and not human contact? Heaven.
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There still are reasons why I left.
- Walking: Spatial senses are very low. People will walk in your path while making eye contact with you. This is especially dangerous as you are trying to cross a street and cars are just EVERYWHERE coming from any direction.
- Hierarchy: No one can say anything bad about people older or higher up than you. Even if it is just against an idea that the boss put up because it will cause problems in the future. URGH.
- International Food: For some reason, they just can't get it right. Sushi is served slightly frozen, cheese is stupid expensive, chicago pizza, brunch, pasta. There are great places in Itaewon and scattered elsewhere but ... yeah.
- Running out of food: There was a place called Pizza and Pasta. They ran out of Pasta. HOW?! Other places have run out of rice or pizza. Restaurants will let you order then tell you they no longer serve that, or that or that. They had 5 pages and only had 3 things on the menu UUUURGH.
These are just the things off the top of my head. There are so many more wonderful things about Korea but that would be incredibly boring if I just kept ranting.