Currently staying at a motel in Tongyong, on the southern coast of Korea. It is surprisingly modern, considering its status as a major industrial port, and has a vast over-abundance of fancy coffee shops.
I'm currently enjoying Korea for a few minor quirks. For example, the generosity of the people. I'd completely forgotten what it was like for random strangers to offer me things completely for free. The other day at the museum, which was free incidentally, the girl manning the counter gave us a coin, completely unsolicited, to use in the baggage locker. And staying in the motel here, nothing is nailed down in the way that they are even in relatively fancy hotels in Canada. Are Koreans just more honest, or have people just not figured out how to take advantage of the system? I cannot imagine an employee of a museum freely offering a coin to patrons in the west. Its refreshing.
On the other hand, I'm reminded of what I don't like: old Korean men. They're mostly loud, obnoxious, and imbeciles. I'll be curious to see if the current generation is so rude and obtrusive in their old age. The current crowd can sort of be excused because of the crushing poverty and wars they've lived through.
Now we shall attempt to visit an isolated island ... Saemuldo Island.... Good night.
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