What Shocked Me Most About South Korea 🇰🇷 

Hey bro, I am an Aussie born Korean from Sydney who lived in Thailand for several years until just before COVID hit...glad you enjoyed Korea, I was just over there in Sep too and it was heaps fun, keep up the great work mate! 😊

Oh you came to my country, thank you for your interesting viewpoint on South Korea. I also want to visit Australia someday.

Pretty good summary. ❤

Thank you, Paddy. A great introduction to Korea. I will be the first to admit that I know very, very little about Korea. But you got me a bit more interested about that country now.

Oh, this was a good one. Very different from your usual vids. I think it would be awesome to spend the night in a bathhouse with like a hundred other people

I absolutely did not know that about the Korean alphabet. I feel I shall have to have a dabble :) Yet another great video.....Korean Talk with Paddy!!

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I've lost track of how many languages you speak, Paddy. I enjoyed this video. Thanks.

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Hi Paddy, what was the name of the Jjimjilbang where you stayed? Glad you enjoyed South Korea!

The Korean alphabet is for sure super simple. I learned it in one or two days about 35 years ago and can still read Korean (meaning sound out most words, but not necessarily understand the meaning) even though I haven't studied Korean or used it much since then.

Love Korea and lived there for 2.5 years 🙂 I agree that Koreans show more emotion and are easier to get close to than the Japanese (if we are going to compare) Funny that you mention more western women with Koreans than southeast Asia. When I lived in Korea I knew a few western women who were dating Koreans (and two who married) but after living in Thailand for 1.5 years I haven't met a single western woman seriously dating a Thai guy (personally at least. My Italki teacher is a Thai guy married to a Canadian woman but I haven't actual met her or my teacher in person)

Its a very hilly country, I seemed to be walking uphill the whole time i was there.😂

Have you tried skin scrub at the bathhouse?

In July 1950, Thailand was the first Asian nation to respond to the US call for allies in Korea. Prime Minister Plaek Phibunsongkhram told parliament that, "by sending just a small number of troops as a token of our friendship, we will get various things in return." A month after agreeing to commit troops, Thailand received US$10 million in US economic aid and a US$25 million loan from the World Bank.[2] Fourty thousand tons of rice were sent to Korea immediately as food aid, followed by an infantry battalion from the 1st Infantry Battalion of the 21st Regimental Combat Team[3] (later renamed the 21st Infantry Regiment, Queen's Guard), formed on 22 September, and several warships.[4] Later in the conflict, several transport aircraft were sent by the Thai government.

10 vowels and 14 consonants vs 22 vowels and 44 consonants. Hangul FTW!

Not even locals go to such barbers, thats for anyone over 50 who reckons that paying for more than 5 dollar is outrageous concept.

How do you know where to go exactly especially if you don’t know the language? I feel like it’s a lot more difficult to learn the languages than you make it seem haha

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I definitely knew it you are definitely going to learn and speak Korean next besides Thai.

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Nice people, scary neighbours to the North though.

In Asia, only the Mongolians can compete with the Koreans when it comes to drinking. You should mention how bland every Korean beer is, but that it doesn't matter because you end up mixing it with soju anyway. Several of the worst hangovers I've had in my life were in Korea! When I started going to South Korea twenty years ago the only westerners were American English teachers and you'd see daggy LBH's guys dating attractive Korean women. LBH meant "loser back home"! That all changed once the Korean wave made it to the west and brought K-Pop with it, which brought the Koreaboos coming from the west and that's when I first noticed the western girls coming to chase the Korean guys. Koreans were already good-looking but westerners knew nothing about Korea until the Korean pop culture wave hit. Jjimjjilbangs are great but if you go on your own without somebody to ask how stuff works it can be tricky. I tried to use my phone translator just on signs on the wall and got told to put my camera away (-: Last trip I planned to travel randomly and just find jjimjjilbangs along the way but that didn't work because there's lots of closed down ones still on the maps. And if I recall correctly Google Maps is no good in Korea and you have to use Naver which has no English translations. Next time get down to Busan. I always used to like Seoul more than Busan but last trip, a few months before the pandemic I couldn't really get into Seoul so much anymore and loved the more gritty more chill vibe in Busan. I especially loved eating at the cheapest joints in the fish market with the locals. Next time I want to go deep into the countryside.

I thought the girls looked more beautiful in Japan but the guys looked better in Korea

Bro can speak every language.

The reason why many Korean men can date Western women is because Korea has a high per capita income is high The reason why Thai men date Western women less is because Thailand is poor Women date men who are similar to or higher than themselves In the U.S., Asians are said to be short, but the reason is that Asia is poor Korea is the tallest in Asia It's because of its high economic power If Thailand had as high an income as the U.S., it would eat better than now and have a strong soft power, and I am sure that many Western women would have wanted to meet Thai men and settle in Thailand due to their rich lives

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