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When I was stuck at incheon for a few hours, I had a hard time finding a place that would sell cold bottled water. It was bizarre how the convenience shop type
by novok 5y ago
When I was stuck at incheon for a few hours, I had a hard time finding a place that would sell cold bottled water. It was bizarre how the convenience shop type of store was just missing in whatever branch of incheon I was waiting at. All the water was slightly warm at the least from the few restaurant type places I was able to get water, even if it came out of a fridge.
Also when I arrived at korea where it was a bit confusing for an english speaker to find your way around from the airport. Korea is not integrated with google or apple maps as far as transit directions go, by law I think, so I had to download a korean maps app in a hurry to try to get around, and that korean app was not localized well (or maybe not at all, it was 2 years ago).
We also had to use a bus vs. a train to get out as we arrived late and buying the ticket was not a straightfoward process. We almost missed the bus if it wasn't for a nice bus driver guy who also really didn't know english that well.
While in japan and a whole bunch of other countries I've landed in, developed or not, I've had none of these issues.
Once at our hotel it was a fairly standard experience, and Seoul was quite a nice place to visit! But the airport experience had a lot of weird hitches.
- Danieru 5y agoHaha, the water thing is fun. Cold water is torture in Chinese and Korean culture. As in the cultural understanding of drinking cold water is that it hurts, is displeasant, and will cause ingestion. Thus of course no store is going to allow water to get too cold for consumption. Similar to how the German strongly prefer to keep stomachs warm.
- Ansil849 5y ago> a nice bus driver guy who also really didn't know english that well. As opposed to the nice bus drivers in English-speaking countries who know Korean really well?