2. Shirts with English on them are the cool things to wear. You see a lot of shirts that just have American college names on them and it is not alumni of the school, it is just a shirt that you can buy at any store. Other shirts don't really mean anything, it will just say Dog on it or (enter english phrase here).
3. There is a definite, yet failed attempt to be helpful with English. Almost anywhere you go, there will be signs with English on them but half the time, there will be one English word or phrase on a sign and then everything else is Korean on the sign. For example, I went into a building yesterday that had a sign that said "Information" on it. "Well great, it will at least have a little small english print to tell me where to go." No, it just said information in big letters then had Korean with no universal signs or symbols. I'm not saying that they should have English on signs because I am not in an english speaking country, I just find it funny that they go to the effort to make the sign, then don't actually give you any information.
4. Business ownership is the ultimate dream here. Almost every single building here is an apartment with a business underneath it. Most of which are barely ever visited and for which I have no idea how they stay in business. Restaurants are the most obvious culprits, but corner stores and all other businesses are so abundant and so rarely busy, that I have no idea how they stay open.
5. There seem to be no weekends here. We get weekends but for the most part, there is very little difference between a Friday and Saturday in our area at least. Construction was going on Sat. and Sunday and every business was open pretty much the same hours as on weekdays. Schools still run, just with fewer classes. I just found that odd.
Off to school for the day, I will post about the weekend and upcoming week later.
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