Initial Culture Shock in Korea

Hello friends and family

This is Megan Bowen aka ChoNunMigookSaram imnida

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

are constantly asking me like the differences between you know Korea

and you know America and stuff like that

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

that happened when I first came to Korea

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

So anyway

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

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

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

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

PEW

They didn't hold the door.

They didn't hold the door!

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

But you know if somebody is like close to you

Like close enough to you

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

You like

You know

You hold it a little bit

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

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

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

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

And so I would just walk in BAM BAM BAM

Door shutting everywhere

Hum

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

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

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

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

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

So, I learned quickly to not hold the door either

Cause that's a waste of time

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

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

It's my secret

So another thing I was really shocked about is

Spitting

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