$3.94 Korean convenience store dinner

Hmm,

smoked duck.

Okay, so here we have smoked duck.

And stir-fried spicy pork.

Let's see if it's any good.

Hmm, I'll make the thumbnail like this,

maybe.

Okay, so here is a piece of duck.

It doesn't look very duckish, to be

honest. It looks Weird.

It tastes nothing like duck. It tastes

like ham. What's this?

This tastes like beef.

It does not taste good.

It's like a really, really cheap beef

burger that your school canteen might

What's this?

I have no idea what that is.

It just tastes like a ball of fried stuff.

Oh, Korean bento boxes are not good.

Oh, I don't even know what this is.

I can't even tell. Look,

what is that? It's just like a ball of

fried stuff.

Got some cabbage.

Oh, I'm not feeling good.

The food has just not been very good these

last few days.

These convenience store box meals are just

awful. Oh, I dropped a piece of cabbage

on my tripod.

Maybe the pork is better.

I don't like it.

The rice is all hard as well.

Oh, this is so disappointing.

I feel like my own cooking is way better

than this. I have to finish the whole

thing or else I have rotting food

in my garbage bag.

So I kind of have good news, I guess.

Remember in my last video I was saying

that— can't remember now.

Um, I think in the last food

video I said the last message I sent her

was asking her what she did today. Well,

she didn't reply And the next day I sent

her another message saying,

when can we meet again? When can we go on

a date again? I really like you. Because I

thought at that point, well, she's not

replying, so she's not interested in me.

What do I have to lose if I just tell her

I like her? And surprisingly, she replied

the next day. She said, What did she say?

Oh, she said she was practicing singing

for her band, and then she said that she

would like to hang out again sometime,

and then she said, I'm really busy right

now, and then she sent me a crying emoji,

and I was so happy when I got that

message. I just, I couldn't stop smiling.

I had this massive grin on my face. I

thought I scared her away.

And if she was really not interested in

me, then she could have just unmatched me

or ghosted me. But she replied. And even

after I told her I liked her, she said,

let's meet up again. But she said

sometime, you know, it's very vague. What

do you mean sometime? When? Next week?

Next month?

What if that's just a really polite way to

say that she doesn't want to meet? You

know, she says, oh, we'll meet again

sometime.

So I just said, okay, sure, smiley face.

There's nothing else I could say. I can't

keep asking her when, when. When can we

meet? Can we meet now? Can we meet next

Monday? When, when, when?

No, I can't ask her anymore,

so I have to just be patient and wait for

her to ask me, I guess. Maybe she's just

really busy.

I guess it's a good thing. I would like to

meet her again. It would be good. I feel

kind of lonely, to be honest.

2 of my dates cancelled on me Friday and

Saturday.

I have a new date on Monday,

and this Italian girl asked me if I wanted

to hang out with her and her friend next

week. I said yes.

And yesterday I just went shopping and I

bought a pot to do cooking with.

And I talked to an old Korean lady— 2

actually. One in the convenience store.

I asked for a bag in English and

then she asked me where I was from. I said

England in Korean. I can speak

Korean, it's just that I don't really feel

com— I don't feel confident speaking it.

So when I go into shops, I usually ask for

a bag in English. I know how to say bag,

it's bongji. It's pretty easy,

but I just don't feel comfortable.

She said my Korean was good. I said No.

Well, I said, I don't know. You can't say

thanks. You have to, you have to say no,

otherwise it's not humble.

And then she asked me how long I had been

in Korea, and I said 3 weeks. It was quite

nice actually, just talking to someone.

And then I went to buy a pot. I walked

around this marketplace, walked into one

of the shops And then the old lady came up

to me. I said I was looking for a pot

in Korean.

I feel like the old Korean people are

quite friendly, but the young Korean

people, they're kind of scary. They look

really stressed out and impatient.

I went into the convenience store and it

was a young-looking girl serving. I said—

no, she said something to me, something

about bag. I said sorry in

English, and then she just repeated the

same thing again in Korean, this time even

faster. If I didn't understand it the

first time, what made she think I'm gonna

understand it the second time? So I just

guessed she was saying bag something

something because I heard the word bag.

So I said Yes, in Korean,

thinking that she would give me a bag.

She didn't give me a bag, so I just ended

up walking out the shop carrying all my

items, and I felt

too scared to ask for a bag because she

looked kind of scary.

She seemed like the type who would get

upset because a foreigner is in Korea and

he's not speaking Korean. I don't

understand what went wrong. She said bag

something something, so I thought she

meant, do you want a bag? And I said yes.

Maybe she said, are you okay without a

bag? And I said yes.

This seems to be my main problem when it

comes to shopping. It's getting a bag. So

I started just walking around outside

carrying my own bags in my pockets.

In case it happens again.

Oh, this meal's terrible. Even I cook

better than this. It's all dry, tastes

weird as well.

It's hard finding places that sell good

food. In my last Airbnb,

it was really good because there was KFC,

McDonald's, Burger King. Just 2 minutes

down the road. Here there's nothing. No

Burger King, no McDonald's. You have to

get on the train and go to the next

station for McDonald's.

There's a few supermarkets and they just

sell, you know, the regular stuff—

vegetables, sausages, ham, eggs.

There's a lot of convenience stores but

they just sell this crap. This rubbish.

Well, the pizza, microwave pizza, was

quite good, I guess. This is horrible.

I don't think I can even eat it. It's

just— ugh, the duck tastes

like ham.

This tastes like some cheap burger that

your school canteen would give you.

It's a bit stressful. What am I supposed

to do for food?

I guess I have to go back to cooking my

own food now I have a pot.

To be honest, I feel kind of depressed

right now. Life is just so boring. I just

sit in this small room all day

long.

It's also kind of difficult making videos

here because I don't feel like I have much

privacy. I feel like people could hear me

nonstop.

I can hear people going up and down the

and I'm forced to listen to K-pop all day

long because just outside the window

There's shops.

There's lots of shops out there, but

there's nothing useful. It's all clothing

shops and a few restaurants, but I'm

too scared to go in there by myself. I

feel like they'll get angry at me because

I don't— I'm not speaking Korean.

I don't really know what to do. I'm

matching lots of girls on Tinder, but it's

just difficult getting them to meet up.

Most of them don't reply.

A lot of them unmatch me straight away as

soon as I say something. And then

loads of them keep canceling when we're

supposed to meet up. They keep— at least 4

have said, sorry, can we meet up next

week?

I don't talk to any of the other girls.

The, the French girl, don't talk to her

anymore. She doesn't even message me

anymore. I don't talk

to any of the first 3 Korean girls

I feel a bit disappointed actually.

I didn't really have any expectations with

the French girl, but when I was in Japan—

I wasn't going to say anything about this

because I didn't want to say anything bad

about her, but we used to flirt a lot and

send, you know, naughty messages all the

time to each other.

And then before we met,

she sent me a message in the middle of the

night about 4 AM. She was in her, you

know, a lady's mood. She said that after

we've met a few times, she might be

willing to become you-know-what friends

with me. But then the next day she

said, sorry, I changed my mind, we should

just be friends. Make up your

mind. Jesus.

But she lives so far away anyway. How are

we going to be friends?

It'd be nice to have a nearby friend.

Then he can just say, hey, you want to

hang out? Or she could say, hey, you want

to hang out? And then we just go and hang

out.

That's why the, the second Korean girl was

nice, because she lived about 2 minutes

away, and then we could just easily meet

up and go for dinner. But I couldn't

carry on staying there because it would

have cost over $1,000 a month for rent.

Cheapest I could find near Seoul Station

was $940 a month.

That's twice the price of this place. I'd

rather save the money and be a bit lonely.

I think I was in a much better mood in the

first and second Airbnb.

For some reason, I feel depressed here. I

don't know if it's because the room is

really small or if it's because of the

area. The first 2 Airbnbs,

I was kind of in this vacation mood.

But now I feel like I'm in living in Korea

mood, and it's just a bit depressing.

I've got another four weeks

here in this Airbnb,

and then after that I don't know where I'm

going. Maybe closer to the center of Seoul

again.

Does it really matter though? I mean, I

don't even leave the Airbnb anyway. I

thought it wouldn't matter, and I

didn't think it'd matter if the room is

really small because I just sit on my bed

all day anyway. But there's something

different. I think the difference is

there was more privacy in the other

Airbnbs. It felt more isolated. Here I can

hear too much from the neighbors.

I feel like everyone's too close to each

It's a bit like being at a guest house in

In guest houses, you don't really have any

sense of privacy. Everyone's so close

together.

I also feel a bit worried about Time. I'm

on my 3rd week here already, so I have

about 9 weeks left. 2 months. I only have

2 months left and I feel like nothing

really has happened. I went on a few

dates. I met a girl that I find really

cute, but she's so busy all the time, and

by the time I can see her again, I might

only have 1.5 months left.

I just don't have enough time to

take things slowly. I don't

know what I expected from my life in

Korea. When I was in Japan, I was

thinking, oh, I'd go to Korea and it'd be

like this new adventure,

but it's been 3 weeks now and nothing

interesting has happened. I met a guy. It

was okay, I guess. I met a few girls,

didn't lead anywhere. I don't really

know what I'm hoping for.

Maybe just a bit of fun.

I feel like I'm doing it wrong. Instead of

just sitting around at my Airbnb waiting

for Tinder dates to match me,

I guess a normal person, they'd be out,

you know, going to the party areas where

there's nightlife and mingling with

people, going to bars and talking to

strangers. I wish I could do that instead

of just sitting on my bed all day doing

nothing. Is that my wildest

To be able to just go outside and interact

with people, but I'm just so scared,

worried about everything. What if they

don't like me? What if they know my

channel and they don't like me? What if

they want me to go away?

What do I say? Hey, I'm Daniel.

I'm from England. Where are you from?

And then I don't even know where, where to

go after Korea. Should I just go home back

to England? I was thinking

about going to other countries like

Thailand, Vietnam,

but they don't really interest me and they

look kind of bad to live in.

If I go back to England, it'll just be the

same. I'll just get an Airbnb and then

just sit in the Airbnb all day long

moaning. Or I'll go back to my mum's place

and then life will be boring again.

I, I don't know what to do with my life

anymore. I travel, I end up just sitting

in Airbnbs trying to get matches on

Tinder. I go home back to

England and then I just end up at my mum's

place. Making boring videos that people

don't even like.

I blew my chances with the Essex girl.

She was pretty upset. You know the video

when I wrote the list of girls and I

crossed her off and I said she ghosted me,

or I said she sent me pictures of her face

in other places? Well, she saw that. And

she wasn't very happy. She was quite

angry, actually.

She said there's probably no chance,

no chance for romance to happen between us

now. I feel a

bit sad about that.

So now I, I feel like I don't have anyone.

Well, there's this Russian girl who is

interested in coming to Korea to see me,

but I'm not sure. She seems nice,

I guess.

Well, I'm going to try and finish this

horrible meal. Then watch some Star Trek.

The only thing that's saving me from

being— from feeling completely alone is

chatting on Discord and then watching Star

Oh, I can't believe this is my life.

See you next time.