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Hello friends and family

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This is Megan Bowen aka ChoNunMigookSaram imnida

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Nobody really asked but I thought it would be a really cool video because people

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are constantly asking me like the differences between you know Korea

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and you know America and stuff like that

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So I thought it would be cool to share with you my initial culture shock things

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that happened when I first came to Korea

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Cause I realised that I never made a video about culture shock when I first came to Korea

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So anyway

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Without further ado, the culture shock things that I was shocked about when I first came to Korea

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OK, so one of the biggest culture shocks that happened to me when I rolled up in this country

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So I'm walking doo doo doo doo doo into the subway station

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This person in front of me just opened the door so I'm like oh doo doo doo doo doo

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PEW

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They didn't hold the door.

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They didn't hold the door!

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I know it's just kinda like an Amurrrican thing maybe

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But you know if somebody is like close to you

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Like close enough to you

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Y'know you don't just slam the door in their face

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You like

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You know

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You hold it a little bit

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I mean if they're like more than a minute walk away obviously that's too far

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But when you're like this, you hold the door for people

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So, I would always forget because it's my habit to just assume

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Ah, because I'm so close, this person is not gonna close the door on me

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And so I would just walk in BAM BAM BAM

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Door shutting everywhere

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Hum

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And then, if you hold the door for people, like they'll just walk through

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And they would not even like say "thank you" or anything like that

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You just hold the door, people would just keep walking through

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And they won't stop, they're just like

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"I guess she'll just hold the door for everyone"

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So, I learned quickly to not hold the door either

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Cause that's a waste of time

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And actually now I secretly enjoy closing the door on the people behind me and I look

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And I'll be like "Yeah, I inconvenienced you"

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It's my secret

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So another thing I was really shocked about is

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Spitting

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I'm talking about, when you walk along the street you will see people spitting