These are things I have learned living in Seoul (mostly coffee related)
1. An umbrella should be carried everyday from May-September
It does not matter if you wake up to a beautiful, clear morning. It will be monsooning in 2 hours time.
2. Surgical masks do not always mean the person got plastic surgery.
They may just be paranoid about the Yellow Dust from China. Yellow dust is airborn dust originating from northern China from their dust storms. Always the damn Chinese. However, 85% of the time, a surgical mask does mean that person got a nose job.
3. True Religions are not just for guidos.
They are still cool here. Fact.
4. Starbucks and The Coffeebean and Tea Leaf are for hood rats.
Americans complain about $5 lattes all the time. I can't count how many times I have had a $12 Americano here. Add some dairy product like into a Latte this can go upwards to $15. Koreans take their coffee seriously.
5. Ground up used coffeebeans make excellent ashtray fillers.
How ingenious for the Koreans to use up the remnants of their coffee consumption in another love of theirs: smoking cigarettes.
6. Drinking coffee at midnight is not a good idea.
Even though it is tempting to get a chocolate iced latte at midnight because you are people watching with friends on a trendy street, it is always a bad idea. Get the green tea latte instead.
7. Where Urbana Champagne is
Never heard? Yeah, me neither. I now know. Koreans studying abroad love to go to the University of Illinois Urbana Champagne like whoa. If you are friends with fobs, then you def have a friend who went to this school. Princeton Review has probably sent 30 people here last year. Who knew?
8. Everything I forgot in middle school
SOHCAHTOA. Law of Distributive Property. Properties of Chemical reactions. I got that on lock. Unfortunately I can't parlay this new knowledge into my next career.
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