Seoul Trip (English Part3)

Although I was nervous when I was asked to go to a pub at night since I do not drink alcohol at all and hate the place in Japan, It was surprisingly fun in Korea. I imagined the place to be loud, smoky, small and full of Gaijin to hit on local women same as a Japanese one but it was almost the opposite.

There were not too many people and the atmosphere was quiet and relaxed. They allow customers to bring foods as most of the people had own meals from food stands and convenience store. We only need to buy a drink which you can take from a refrigerator and pay later. I thought I could come to the place like this every night to hang out with friends.

But there is no place that is perfect. A washroom I went to at the pub was the worst washroom I have ever experienced.

There was a shared washroom in a building, outside of the bar which seemed no one flushed. I do not have any prejudice against Korean but I feel like the way Korean men use washroom is not really clean according to my experience that I have witnessed many Korean men passed through wash stands in a toilet.

Anyway, I was already quite upset when I entered a washroom but it got more severe after I found that there was no toilet paper. Not only the paper, but a holder was also not there at all. I almost lost my mind by that and thought even it was a prank or something. I had not been that panicked if I have not had stomachache then.

I had a surprising answer when I asked a clerk about toilet paper. She said People there brought own paper from each place otherwise they use too much or just take it all.
I finally managed to sit on a toilet after asking her a paper.
And its seat freezes my blood.

I always go to a movie theater when I travel abroad. A ticket was almost half of Japanese price. Though I do not think it was super cheap since Japan has one of the highest ticket rates in the world, it was nice for me as Japanese.

What made me jealous the most about was they open foreign movies at the same timing as its original release date. Most of the movies are imported to Japan few months (Sometimes a year!) after they opened in home countries.

I watched Aquaman, which is now finally playing in a Japanese theater, the last day of last year. Nothing impressive.

I was told that the reason why an armrest in a Korean movie theater can move was to make out. It totally makes sense as Korean couple always smooch everywhere.

It is interesting to me that compare to Japan, people in Korea looked freer to express their opinion and emotion and more instinctive in a public, also more honest to their feeling under a repressive society and intense workstyle and lifestyle as same as (Or harder than) in Japan.

I remember that some of my foreign friends who had lived both countries told me that they would choose Seoul instead of Tokyo when I asked them which city they would prefer to live. 

Now I kind of understand them.