Crowds 2.5

Perhaps if you've lived here, you've experienced the annoyances of strolling around Korea. Today it seems as though I experienced them all. Let me tell you about them briefly because as common as they are here, they are sometimes easily forgotten. As I was leaving one of my classes today and walking down the street, a gentleman was walking in a path straightforward in a direction that would cross my path. Without even stopping he kept on walking, didn't pause, and almost walked right into me if I hadn't of stopped very suddenly and LET him walk in front. Without even a pause or any kind of polite gesture, he continued forward on his mission. I shook my head. Now if I could put you in that exact situation not once but at least 20 times in one day, you would probably find it very disturbing.
Not even a minute later as I was walking towards the subway when a guy (not even considering the word gentleman) was trying to clear his throat so it seemed. He made a cross between someone trying to sniff and some animalistic sound of vomiting. I wasn't so sure so I stepped out of the way just to be safe. The fact that he probably thought it was publicly acceptable was disturbing.
And when I did manage to make it to the subway and got on, almost immediately was shoved out of the way by another guy, for the only reason I could see was for him to just go stand in another area of the subway.
Oh well, those kinds of things happen in a city with a population of over 10 million and people rushing to get places.

I enjoyed walking around Myeongdong in Seoul and actually saw a lot of happy people. They're much younger of course and it was on a weekend so almost everyone was happy anyways.