Things I disliked about Living in South Korea [s2OW-jRyFrw]

Hello and welcome to my video about top

5 things— top 5 reasons why I didn't like

living in South Korea. I lived in Korea

for a month in February, and I know it's

not a very long time, and I was planning

on living there longer, but thanks to

China not understanding basic hygiene, I

had to leave much earlier, much sooner

than I planned to. And the reason why I'm

making this video in the first place is

because I actually made a very similar

video 2 years ago about Japan, and it got

loads of views, and I thought it'd be

stupid of me not to try and do the same

thing again. So hopefully this video also

gets loads of views, and then I can get

one of these really cool electric

scooters. Okay, so reason number 1, the

internet. Was bad. Now, I'm not saying

that the internet was slow. The internet

in Korea is extremely fast, and it's

really convenient because they have public

Wi-Fi all over the place. It was just kind

of annoying because it was so restrictive.

There were so many websites that were

blocked by the Korean government, you

know, adult websites. And there were also

things I couldn't do on the internet,

such as watch the new Star Trek series

Picard on Amazon Prime, because number

one, they don't even have Amazon in Korea.

So all of Amazon Prime is blocked. If you

try and watch anything on Amazon Amazon

Prime, you'll get this pop-up message

saying something about restricted or

content blocked because of geolocation

licensing problems. And I also couldn't

watch age-restricted videos on YouTube.

It would ask me to verify my age using my

Korean phone number. And there's so many

internet services on the internet in Korea

where you need to have a Korean phone

number if you want to use it. And I don't

have a Korean phone number because I don't

plan on living in Korea. For a very long

time, and I'm pretty sure most tourists

won't have a Korean phone number unless

they're planning on living there for years

and years. You can't even use food

delivery apps unless you have a Korean

phone number. If you try and enter your

foreign phone number, it will just say

number not recognized. So you can't even

order McDonald's to your apartment or

wherever you're living unless you have a

Korean phone number, which is just so

stupid. Why do they make things so

difficult for foreigners? So you might be

thinking, why don't you just get a VPN?

And I did get a VPN. And if you're

spending any long periods of time in

Korea, you really need to have a VPN.

Otherwise, it's just a massive headache.

But even with a VPN, I couldn't watch the

new Star Trek series on Amazon Prime,

Picard. When I turned on the VPN,

my iPad said, unable to play video content

because you have a VPN enabled. So yes, I

was very frustrated with not being able to

do what I wanted to do on the internet.

It's really annoying being told what you

can and cannot see on the internet. I'm a

grown man, I'm not a baby. Okay, reason

number 2, no manners. There's so many

people in Korea who have bad manners,

poor manners, or even no manners at all.

There were so many weird things I saw just

by going outside. For example, there was

this man who was running to catch a bus,

and then the bus drove off without him

because he missed it. And then he kicked

the side of the bus and then started

screaming at the bus. It was pretty funny,

actually. I've never seen anyone kick a

bus before and then start swearing at it.

Drivers did weird things all the time.

For example, they would just stop their

car in the middle of the road when it's a

green light, and there'd be all these cars

behind them honking at him. And people

would just stand in front of the doors

when the train stopped without getting

off, and they'll just stand there on their

phones blocking the way. It's like they

live in their own little dreamland and

they have no consideration or awareness of

what's going on around them. One time I

was riding the train and this old Korean

lady was sitting next to me, and then she

started filing her fingernails next to me,

and then she was flicking the dust towards

me onto my leg. Disgusting. And when you

go outside, you can hear the constant

sound of old men spitting. You know that

sound they make before they're about to

spit? You can't even walk outside for 1

minute without hearing that. As soon as

you go out the door, You'll hear that

sound straight away. Disgusting! As soon

as you go outside, you'll be greeted with

this lovely sound. Disgusting! I lived

in Japan for quite a while, and every time

I went outside, I barely ever heard this

sound unless I went to this slum area of

Osaka where it's pretty much the same as

Korea and you constantly hear that noise.

And I just really don't understand why

they like to spit so much. I know that

they do it because they're smoking And

sometimes when I feel sick, I also, you

know, I have buildup, but I don't spit it

out. I just, I swallow it. I quite enjoy

the flavor actually and the texture. I

don't really think of it as disgusting

because I made it. My own body produced

it, so it's not really harmful if I

swallow it and then digest it. Also, if

you're walking around in a busy street and

there's a lot of people around, sometimes

you get these old grannies who are in a

rush and they just elbow you in the back

to get you out of the way. If they're

trying to get past you, instead of saying

excuse me, they'll just elbow you in the

back and push you, or they'll, you know,

shove you aside or nudge your shoulder.

They won't do the, the hand gesture which

they often do in Japan, which means I'm

coming through. They'll just elbow you. I

really do not enjoy being elbowed by old

ladies, and sometimes it was very hard to

resist the temptation of elbowing them

back in the face. So yeah, I do feel like

The, the manners could be improved. They

need to calm down a little bit. Stop

kicking buses, just get the next bus.

Stop stopping your car when it's a green

light and being a nuisance to everyone

behind you. Stop standing in front of

train doors when they're open and move

aside. Problem number 3 was no baths.

Now, I really enjoy having a bath at the

end of the day. It's really relaxing to

make a bath and just let your problems

melt away. But in Korea, it was just

really difficult to find any Airbnbs which

had a bathtub. Even the really expensive

Airbnbs didn't have a bathtub. Now I'm

guessing this is because they also share

this culture with Japan where they have

onsens and public bathing, which I just

don't understand why they like it so much.

Why don't you just have a bathtub in your

own house? Surely it's more relaxing to

have your own personal bathtub in the

comfort of your own home instead of having

to get dressed, having to go to the

location where the public bath is, and

then having to share water with who knows

how many other men or women, and then you

have to take off all your clothing and you

don't have any privacy. That just sounds

really stressful and unrelaxing. It's the

complete opposite of what I would imagine

relaxing to be like. In Japan, pretty much

every single apartment has a bath unit.

They come in these units, so you have like

a cubicle bath/shower/toilet/sink

unit, and every Airbnb I went to in Japan,

even the really cheap ones, they all had a

bathtub. Why can't Korea do the same?

Okay, problem number 4,

Tinder. I didn't really have a very

successful time with Tinder in Korea.

Now, I got lots of matches, and I did go

on about 5 or 6 dates, but they were all

kind of failures. And it was pretty

stressful doing the whole dating thing in

Korea. I went on about 6 dates with 6

different women, and 5 out of the 6 dates

were just really boring. I found it to be

pretty difficult talking to them, even

though they spoke really good English. It

was like they weren't really interested in

me. They didn't really show much interest

in me. They didn't really ask me many

questions, or it just felt like it was a

lot of hard work getting them to open up

and getting them to talk. And if I didn't

ask them any questions, they wouldn't ask

me anything, and it would just be

completely silent. It would just be

awkwardly silent. I don't know, maybe in

Korea the man is expected to do all of the

work when it comes to making conversation

and showing them a good time. I just don't

really like that. I think, you know,

women and men should be equal, and the

woman should put in equal effort into

making conversation and having a good

time. And they also seem kind of

two-faced, you know. They'll be all

friendly and nice when you're with them.

They'll say stuff like, oh yeah, let's

meet up again. I'll introduce you to my

friends. We can go here and we can go

there. And then you get home and check

Tinder and you realize that they've

unmatched you. I felt so insulted. It was

the first time I've ever been on a date,

and then she unmatched me hours after we

said goodbye. So rude. I went on one date

and she didn't even ask me a single

question about myself. Didn't even ask me

why I was in Korea in the first place.

Didn't ask me what I did for a living. It

just felt like she wasn't interested in me

as a person at all. It was just Me, me,

me, me, me. Anyway, yeah, I had a pretty

bad time on Tinder in Korea. It's weird

because in Japan I was pretty successful,

but I never really matched or met up with

cute girls in Japan. But in Korea I

matched and met up with quite a lot of

cute girls compared to the girls I was

matching with in Japan. But when it comes

to the you know what side of it, I was

just completely unsuccessful. And I had to

resort to the usage of CGs to get rid

of my crippling loneliness. And finally,

reason number 5. Um, I was actually

struggling to come up with a 5th reason

because, to be honest, Korea is a pretty

good country to live in, even though there

were a few complaints that I had. If I

really had to come up with a 5th reason,

I guess food could be one

of my complaints. In general, most of the

food was fine. I quite like Korean food.

I like kimchi, I like the little green

leaf, and I love all the pickled, pickled

vegetables and side dishes and the Korean

barbecue stuff. That stuff's great. But

when it comes to convenience store food,

Korea is just kind of lacking compared to

Japanese convenience store food. In Japan,

they have these things called bento,

bento boxes, which are like ready meals

prepared meals that you can put into the

microwave where you have rice and fried

chicken, beef or spaghetti. They have

loads of variety in Japan, and they

actually taste really good, like

restaurant-quality food. But in Korea,

they have similar things, but they just

taste like utter garbage. I bought a few

to try out on my food cooking channel,

and I just really struggled to actually

finish the whole thing. I even threw away

half of it because it was just so bad.

The food was also kind of expensive if you

go to a supermarket. I found it really

difficult to be able to buy food and

ingredients to do cooking with at a good

price. In Japan, I had no problems being

able to survive for a few days just from

spending $5 at a supermarket. I could

easily find a tub of pork that I could

make a few meals out of for about ¥200,

which is about $2 in Japan. But in Korea,

I had to spend at least $10 to $15 to be

able to get the same amount of meat in a

tub in a supermarket so I could make a few

meals out of. When I was in Japan, I did a

lot of cooking myself because it saved me

huge amounts of money. But I kind of gave

up with the whole cooking idea in Korea

because it didn't really save any money,

and in some cases it was even more

expensive to do your own cooking compared

to just going to a restaurant. Anyway,

those were my 5 reasons why I did not

like living in South Korea.