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After a twelve-hour descent I reached my destination. As I cautiously walked out of my abyss that is the airplane, I instantly exit a hit of the cruel humidity of South Korea. The sky still covered in clouds suggested that it would soon cool off but of course it was tout ensemble just a painted picture as the beads of sweat that started from my neck continued to race down the crevice of my spine and down to my hip. I decided to travel to South Korea alone in order to fully grasp and understand the culture that my family grew up living in. The premier(prenominal) thing I noticed was how short e preciseone was, this lead to an extra kick in my step and an obnoxious protruding self-confident walk. I was being stared at like I was some sort of prized possession either because I was t all told in aller than everyone else or that I was a foreigner. Koreans love their foreigners to a blind eye even though I looked the part of a Korean, they could tell who the foreigners were and they we re definitely not fooled. It took some time before 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 conversation 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 dont take trips, trips take people he later explained that he meant that people need to miss their final destination as an endpoint, but rather the beginning of a new unexpected trip. After our conversation I pulled out my map and asked him to take to the woods in Dongdaemun. He repli... ...laxing where Im from but here in Korea there are a couple rules to follow. Again, status plays a role, similar to the handshakes, if an elderly offers to pour you a beer, you mustiness hold your glass with both hands and if it is your first drink you should always accept it, as it is polite to. Also you must keep 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. costless 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 flowing alcohol wont stop for a while. So blame the alcohol and their rules when you see a group of coworkers stumbling down the streets in broad daylight.