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[2020-02-03] My first day in KOREA [tN7HR6SF0b4]

2020-02-03 · 14 min

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  1. Okay, I'm ready. Let's go. Goodbye,

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  2. Mount Fuji t-shirt. Who remembers my Mount

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  3. Fuji t-shirt? I'll show you how I check

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  4. out of hotels. Instead of taking the key

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  5. card and taking it to the counter, to the

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  6. reception, and checking out, I just don't

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  7. check out. I just leave the key here and

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  8. then leave because I don't want to talk to

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  9. Goodbye, key. Going down.

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  10. I'm

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  11. in Korea.

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  12. Looks very

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  13. futuristic.

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  14. Thank you.

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  15. I'm in the train station. It's very

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  16. big.

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  17. I'm in Korea.

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  18. Why am I in Korea? I don't

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  19. know. Looks nice, I guess.

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  20. There's a lot of buildings.

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  21. Where's my Airbnb? Should be somewhere

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  22. here. I think this is the right

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  23. building.

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  24. I found it, my new Airbnb.

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  25. Oh, take my shoes off first.

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  26. This is my Airbnb.

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  27. Oh, I feel like I've been traveling for

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  28. ages. Oh, there's a

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  29. loft compartment as well and a kitchen.

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  30. It's pretty warm in here. Wow,

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  31. the floor is warm. There's heating in the

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  32. floorboards. That's pretty cool. What are

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  33. these glass doors?

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  34. Storage. Let's go upstairs.

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  35. Another bed. There's 2 beds, one up here,

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  36. one down there. Which one should I use?

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  37. This is my dinner.

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  38. Within China is so great and the level of

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  39. insulation so— Well, it's, it's day

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  40. 2 in Korea. Well, actually it's day 1.

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  41. It's my first, first proper full day in

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  42. South Korea, and I kind of felt a bit

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  43. depressed last night because it's weird

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  44. coming to a new country. All of a sudden

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  45. you're in a strange new place and you

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  46. don't really know why. So I didn't really

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  47. film much and I just went to bed and

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  48. Unfortunately, I ended up wasting most of

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  49. my cash on a— you know what. I've only

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  50. got about 2,000 won, which is about $2,

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  51. so I have to go to the supermarket because

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  52. I don't have any food.

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  53. They gave me this massive fridge. No food.

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  54. So I'll go to the supermarket and see how

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  55. much food I can get for $2 and I think I

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  56. should be able to get some cabbage and

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  57. tofu.

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  58. There's not really much to show you.

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  59. There's buildings,

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  60. 7-Eleven,

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  61. traffic.

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  62. Everything's so expensive. Well, I

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  63. finished shopping, but I went over the

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  64. budget by quite a lot. I didn't realize

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  65. food would be so expensive here.

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  66. It's a bit boring here.

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  67. Everywhere just looks kind of gray,

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  68. gray and white.

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  69. Okay, I'm back from shopping and I went

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  70. over the budget a little bit. Ended up

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  71. spending 21,131 won,

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  72. which is about— it's about $17.67.

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  73. I thought I could get a few things with

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  74. only 2,000 won, but I was wrong. Mostly

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  75. everything was at least 1,500 or 2,000

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  76. won. So here's what I got. I got for

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  77. breakfast some Cornflake bars,

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  78. very nutritional.

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  79. I got some dirty carrots and

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  80. got some sausages.

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  81. Got some coffee, 20 sticks of Maxim

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  82. coffee. This is— I think it's a Korean

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  83. brand. Definitely need coffee.

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  84. We got some bread.

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  85. I got 2 potatoes for 1,500 won,

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  86. which is pretty good. I also got some

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  87. beef— Australian True Aussie Beef—

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  88. Australian beef, 40% discount.

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  89. Pretty good deal. Why is it expanding?

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  90. And yeah, that's all I got.

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  91. $16— no, $17 worth of food. Let's see

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  92. how long this lasts me for. Hopefully it

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  93. lasts me about 3 days. I can make a

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  94. few dinners, I, I can make a few lunches

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  95. with the sausages and bread.

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  96. So I'll give you my first impressions of

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  97. the place. Um, I'm not very impressed to

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  98. To be honest, I think the Airbnb is

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  99. fine. It's quite a nice Airbnb. It's a bit

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  100. scruffy here and there, but in general

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  101. it's pretty good. The location that I'm in

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  102. is just not very good. I thought that if

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  103. I lived next to Seoul Station, I would be

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  104. in the central part of the capital city of

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  105. Korea and it would be all modern and built

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  106. up and nice. And you see this part, it

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  107. does look kind of nice, doesn't it? It

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  108. looks nice from a distance, but when you

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  109. go out there and you go near the

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  110. buildings, then you start to realize that

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  111. a lot of the buildings look old and run

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  112. down, and there's homeless people

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  113. everywhere. I went to the train station

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  114. and there were loads of them just sitting

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  115. around with the cardboard box shelters,

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  116. and there's junk all over the streets. It

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  117. just kind of reminded me of the slum area

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  118. that I went to in Osaka where I made a few

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  119. videos. The area just feels kind of run

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  120. down, and it made me feel depressed

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  121. walking around out there. Well, I guess

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  122. it's my fault because I didn't do any

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  123. research on the area that I was going to

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  124. be moving into, but I have to stay here

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  125. for the next 2 weeks because I booked the

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  126. Airbnb for 2 weeks and there's no refunds.

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  127. I think I'll start looking for a new place

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  128. in a better area. And for dinner,

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  129. I'm going to make a very simple meal of

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  130. potatoes, carrots, and Australian

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  131. beef.

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  132. Okay, so I finished frying the beef and

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  133. that goes straight into the potato and

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  134. carrot soup.

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  135. And we have 2 servings of my special beef

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  136. and potato and carrot soup, one for today

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  137. and then one for tomorrow's dinner.

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  138. So let's go in for a try. We've got some

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  139. carrots, some beef, some potato.

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  140. Mm, mm, that's pretty

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  141. good actually. Good old hearty

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  142. beef soup.

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  143. Mm-hmm. Why don't you give it a try

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