Korean customs to know before you travel to Korea:(follow my best friend here @triplej)

refrence:https://matadornetwork.com/abroad/10-korean-customs-to-know-before-you-visit-korea/
Korean culture is very nice and full of wonderful traditions. It is an amazing place where you find both perfect peace and
harmony, but unfortunately wars and tragedies as well. Korean culture rarely falls short of amazing.
(1) Kimchi is culture: Kimchi is cut off cabbage, fermented with red chili sauce and anchovy paste. It is pungent, spicy, and sour. Koreans love it and eat it with every meal usually on the side though they also use it as an ingredient in countless other dishes.
Kimchi is symbolic of Korean culture: it’s strong, specific, and defiant. Some foreigners can’t stomach it, but if you can, you will earn the locals’ heartfelt respect. It’s definitely one of the top food experiences you need to have in South Korea.

(2) Shoes off: When entering a Korean home, you must remove your shoes. To do any less is a sign of great disrespect.
Koreans have a special relationship with their floor, on which they sit and often sleep. A dirty floor is, insufferable in a Korean home, and they view Westerners as backward savages for remaining shod in our living rooms.

(3) Soju: Korea is a drinking, and their national booze is soju, a clear, vodka-like drink.
Soju is drunk out of shot glasses, and like all liquor in Korea, it’s always served with food. Koreans drink in boisterous groups, regularly clinking glasses while shouting geonbae! (cheers).
At night you will see men coming out of norae bang (karaoke rooms) and staggering through the streets, laughing, singing and arguing. Just be sure to avoid the puddles of reddish-vomit often left behind, are also known as kimchi flowers.

(4) Rice:the Koreans eat rice with almost every meal. It’s so ingrained in their culture that one of their most common greetings is Bap meogeosseoyo?, or ‘Have you eaten rice?’
Koreans usually eat their rice with a spoon, and they never raise the rice bowl off of the table towards their mouths.
Also, chopsticks must never be left sticking out of the rice bowl, as this resembles the way rice is offered to the dead.

(5)Hiking:As Korea is mountainous, it should come as no surprise that hiking is the national pastime.
Even the most crowded of cities have mountains that offer a relative haven from the kinetic madness of the streets below.
Koreans are at their best on the mountain. They smile and greet you and will often insist on sharing their food and drinking. Make sure to stop at a mountain hut restaurant for pajeon (fritter) and dong dong ju.

Seoul, the capital of South Korea, is a huge metropolis where nice skyscrapers, high-tech subways, and pop culture meet Buddhist temples, palaces, and markets. Notable attractions containing futuristic Dongdaemun Design Plaza, a convention hall with curving architecture and a rooftop parkGyeongbokgung Palace, which once had more than 7,000 rooms; and Jogyesa Temple, site of ancient locust and pine trees.

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