Odd things in Korea - 24 of them

[Svnla]

http://www.businessinsider.com/odd-things-in-korea-2014-6


Anyone wants to add some more?

 

[PowerYoga]

Dominos, pizza hut, etc in asia are vastly better than the american counterparts. It's not odd that people love dominos, it's fucking delicious over there.

In the states dominos taste like dog shit.

 

[Ns1]

I love how businessinsider is now a cleaned up version of buzzfeed.

 

[TallBill]

Backing into a parking spot is not weird..

 

[Ns1]

Backing into a parking spot is not weird..

it is when everyone does it.

 

[mmntech]

I love how businessinsider is now a cleaned up version of buzzfeed.

And Buzzfeed is just a cleaned up version of Cracked, but for women and gay men.

 

[Hugo Drax]

Japan is quite interesting. When you go into a mall and you walk into a line of greeters on both sides, several women bowing as you walk.

 

[LevelSea]

Heated stone beds

 

[MrPickins]

Backing into a parking spot is not weird..

It's my preferred way to park my pickup.

 

[AznAnarchy99]

Out of all of those there's no mention of the Starcraft TV channel?

 

[Imp]

it is when everyone does it.

Which means that no one argues that backing in is more dangerous than front-in parking... Strange indeed.

 

[pontifex]

so the description about the backing in thing says it's to make leaving easier...but desn't it make parking more difficult? one way its easier to park but harder to leave or harder to park but easier to leave. does it really make a difference?

 

[Ns1]

so the description about the backing in thing says it's to make leaving easier...but desn't it make parking more difficult? one way its easier to park but harder to leave or harder to park but easier to leave. does it really make a difference?

Back-in parking is actually far easier if you can hold a straight line going in reverse...

 

[Imp]

so the description about the backing in thing says it's to make leaving easier...but desn't it make parking more difficult? one way its easier to park but harder to leave or harder to park but easier to leave. does it really make a difference?

I sat in someone else's car and he showed me an awesome way to back-in: turn away from the parking spot before going in reverse. This way you're already partially turned and straightened out before reversing, which makes the mirrors actually useful and less cranking necessary.

I was taught to drive perpendicular to the spot, go about 1.5 cars past the spot, crank the wheel hard and hope for the best, drive forward to straighten out, back in again.

 

[GasX]

I sat in someone else's car and he showed me an awesome way to back-in: turn away from the parking spot before going in reverse. This way you're already partially turned and straightened out before reversing, which makes the mirrors actually useful and less cranking necessary.

At what age was this a revelation to you?

 

[Ns1]

I sat in someone else's car and he showed me an awesome way to back-in: turn away from the parking spot before going in reverse. This way you're already partially turned and straightened out before reversing, which makes the mirrors actually useful and less cranking necessary.

This is the superior method and you should aim to block the entire lane while you are performing this maneuver, that way some doucher can't head-in to the spot while you're in the middle of reversing in.

 

[Imp]

At what age was this a revelation to you?

Two or three years after learning to drive. Because everyone else I drove/sat in the same car as used the crappier perpendicular-crank method and/or just parked straight in.

 

[ponyo]

It's poorly written article with incorrect and untrue statements.

 

[Sonikku]

Dominos, pizza hut, etc in asia are vastly better than the american counterparts. It's not odd that people love dominos, it's fucking delicious over there.

In the states dominos taste like dog shit.

It's like that way with Coke as well. Coke elsewhere in the world? Made with real cane sugar. In the States? Some disgusting syrup crap.

We should fucking have the best of everything here. :\

 

[Strk]

The yogurt soda is surprising since lactose intolerance is pretty high among asians.

 

[darkxshade]

It's amazing how sophisticated the infrastructure is in Seoul, Tokyo, Hong Kong, and others. Everytime I visit, I'm ashamed for the sad state of disarray the cities are here, there should be no excuse. /sigh

 

[Jeff7]

I love how businessinsider is now a cleaned up version of buzzfeed.

It's more important to get clicks than it is to do.....well, anything else, really.


"29 obnoxious and ridiculous things we'll do to get you to click through!"

It's amazing how sophisticated the infrastructure is in Seoul, Tokyo, Hong Kong, and others. Everytime I visit, I'm ashamed for the sad state of disarray the cities are here, there should be no excuse. /sigh

We have plenty of other things to piss away money on. An absolutely absurd "defense" budget, highest incarceration rate in the world, wacky and expensive health care system........
And people don't really use transportation systems anyway, so they're not important to maintain. It supports local vehicle repair shops when car wheels are regularly eaten, and suspensions wrecked, by deep potholes.

21. People don't fall onto the subway tracks.

Glass panels and sliding doors separate commuters from tracks. It's a pretty good idea

Nice.


First time in NYC, I was quite surprised by the subways. Lots of pushy people in a hurry, and a train that comes blasting through the station at high speed. The mitigation effort: Announcements and signs to stand back from the dropoff to the tracks, and yellow paint near the edge. And do mind the occasional urine or rat.

 

[poopaskoopa]

Dominos, pizza hut, etc in asia are vastly better than the american counterparts. It's not odd that people love dominos, it's fucking delicious over there.

In the states dominos taste like dog shit.

My experience was the opposite. Cheese on pizza in Japan and HK(pre and post 1997) were nasty and expensive. I so often detected the Japanese mayonnaise smell on the cheese and it killed my appetite. I used to live in Japan and visited HK a few times and I hated pizza until I moved to the states. I've gone back every now and then since and every time I come across a pizza there I remember why I hated pizza. I noticed the same smell on pizza in Greece, too. Not sure what that's all about.

 

[ThatsABigOne]

It's poorly written article with incorrect and untrue statements.

That is what I thought. My ex told me many things about Korea and shared pictures with me when she went there. It is an interesting place - well thought out infrastructure, really fast internet, and very clean. She is from Ansan area.

 

[pontifex]

Back-in parking is actually far easier if you can hold a straight line going in reverse...

Easier than pulling straight in or easier than backing out?