On the Seoul of Your Foot Part 1 (On-Foot Goes Web)

Why Korea? Well, since they’ve been invading our country for the past several years, I thought it was high time we paid them back for their atrocities. Yeah, that’s right I said it! Go to their country and give them a taste of their own medicine: slap their golf caddies, make them watch our horrible telenovelas, and rent an apartment and sublease it to students, who leave a trail of slippers outside the door. While I’m at it, I might as well taste their delicious spicy food that makes me sweat on the back of my head and eat their wonderful ice cream desserts.

We arrived in Incheon airport 10 minutes early but since they’re ahead by 1 hour, we lost 50 minutes. It always makes me wonder where the lost time goes when you travel to different time zones. Is there a country that just keeps lost time and when you visit that country you get to live out those missing hours? Incheon airport, where most international flights in Seoul arrive, is typical of any first class airport. It makes me sad when I think of our airports back in the Philippines (although NAIA 3 is quite impressive even though it’s relatively pretty small by international standards. To get to the hotel, we took a bus, which came out to be about P600. One Philippine Peso is roughly around 25 Korean Won. So in Japan I was a millionaire and in Korea I’m a billionaire. But so is everyone else.

The first thing I noticed about Korea is their toilet. Similar to Japan, they have these high-tech toilet seats that have heaters and bidets that can control everything from the water temperature, water pressure, and gyrating movements of the bidet. Of course I couldn’t resist, I had to fiddle with it to get the controls just right. They also had other weird machines that I found amusing. There’s a word in Kapampangan for how I felt that cannot be translated: “bana”.