So elections are going on here in Korea. What this consists of I have no idea. I'm not going to claim to be knowledgeable here. Just my observations as a clueless, wide-eyed foreigner that doesn't watch TV or read the papers...
1. Campaign workers are creepy. They wait around subway entrances and exits in lines with matching (almost) neon shirts (I think of them as the blue team and the green team) with Miss America style sashes that say I don't know what (all in Korean of course). They wait for people to pass and then bow very deeply (to show respect) and yell some chant at you. Which of course, with my limited knowledge of Korea, all I can gather is that they are speaking very formally. Sometimes there is a person passing out business cards. It's hilarious that they still try to hand them to me.
2. Campaign truck platforms are scary. The one by school had a picture of a candidate with a child holding a lunch plate on his lap on the back and then inside the platform there was a character wearing a chef head. Come home and there is one on the opposite corner of my building shouting from his into a mike... I think other people are shouting back at him. He sounds angry. Hmm.... Close the window.
I'd go research what these elections are all about but I'm pretty amused by my ignorance.
The joys of living on a main road. Close the the subway, constant light and sound pollution, overhearing fights from the HOFs (beer places) and domestic disputes as old drunk men threaten to get in their cars parked on the main road and drive away, random car horns and bad Korean music blasting from car stereos... and now, loud angry election campaigning. Oh wait... I think only one of those was a good thing. ;) hehe.
I have about 5 trips backlogged I might one day want to write about, but I felt compelled to blog the mundane.
Tentative return date: June 29th. You ready USA?
