By James Muth
Korea is a wacky place. It is full of wacky experiences, wacky people and wacky technology. Before this trip, our family was excited and anticipating East Asia. China and Korea especially have fulfilled their duty in astonishing, amazing and wowing us. Korea has left us giggling at our selves and almost everything else. The technology here is especially wacky because Korea is such a developed country. Another thing that the entire family noticed that was wacky was the electric street life. Lucky for you, that’s what I chose to write about. Korea is certainly one heck of a country.
Korea is a wacky place. It is full of wacky experiences, wacky people and wacky technology. Before this trip, our family was excited and anticipating East Asia. China and Korea especially have fulfilled their duty in astonishing, amazing and wowing us. Korea has left us giggling at our selves and almost everything else. The technology here is especially wacky because Korea is such a developed country. Another thing that the entire family noticed that was wacky was the electric street life. Lucky for you, that’s what I chose to write about. Korea is certainly one heck of a country.
It has been
pretty confusing to see all this new technology so luckily we had the
opportunity to go to the Samsung D’light showing center. We all got wristbands
and these wristbands had microchips that we could scan in to access our
individual accounts and do activities. We made planets, edited photos and made
open shutter pictures. The equipment analyzed what we selected and came up with
emotions, senses and our types of imagination. Here’s a link to the photos from
my account (please excuse my ridiculous face):
After doing all of the super cool analyzation, we got to
test out some of Samsung’s new products.
Some of the favorites from the group were: the oculus rift, the smart
mirror, the transparent TV, the virtual closet and the smart refrigerator.
Samsung is coming up with so much new stuff, so hopefully we’ll see it on the
US market soon.
The people
in Korea are nice, inviting, kind, friendly and a bit different. I don’t mean
this in a bad way at all, my guess is that most of what we have experienced is completely
normal in Korea, not the US. In the US, I haven’t seen any people in the
street, dancing on their long boards, but I have in Korea! There were close to
20 people in shorts (yes it’s cold here too) dancing around on a public street.
Not to mention all of the street performers. Korea has everything from clowns
who don’t talk to people signing autographs in the street. There are people
dressed up in batman costumes, raising awareness for child cancer. There are
magicians who can make a hat disappear and reappear on someone else’s head.
Almost every time we go out we have to stop and watch someone perform. There
are always guys making cool skateboarding videos and people dressed up like
mascots to sell their products on the street, whatever it may be. And Gangnam
Style, it’s all true. Gangnam has some crazy style. There are lots of shops,
beauty parlors, cosmetic stores, plastic surgery clinics, and K-pop stores. I’m
not sure what Psy was saying in Gangnam Style, but it certainly is wacky!
Korea has
been such a welcoming, happy and friendly country. Even if almost no one outside
the university speaks English, people will repeat whatever they are saying in
Korean until you understand. Someone like me may think that Korea is just a
crazy place, but in all honesty, I think we’re just experiencing culture shock.
It was shocking and astonishing to see street performers but after all, we are
from a small town. I really enjoyed getting a taste of Korean culture after all
the waiting. Korea is definitely on the top of my favorites list!
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