Travelers Advantage

No matter where you go to Korea for a job, or want to sweep the East Asian region, in order to better enjoy the journey, the following 10 customs you must know.

Spicy cabbage

1 Pickle is culture!

Cabbage kimchi is the Korea, red pepper sauce and marinated anchovy paste.

It tastes spicy and fat acids. Korea people's favorite pickles, every meal is not it.

Kimchi is a symbol of Korea culture: taste strong, unique and some defiant, provocation.

Some foreign tourists can't stand the taste of pickles, but if you can eat pickles, you will win the respect of local people in good faith.

Korea people care

2 shoes!

When you go to Korea people's House, you have to take your shoes off.

No shoes is a very bad performance.

Korea human life cannot be separated from the floor, they sat on the floor, often sleeping on the floor.

Korea intolerable home dirty floor. If foreign tourists wearing shoes into their living room, they will consider these Westerners are a group of uncivilized barbarians.

Soju

3 Korea wine!

Korea has its own wine culture.

People are the stuff of a wine is wine. Korea soju is a color transparent, taste like vodka wine.

Korea people use small glass to drink wine, and usually with respect to food and drink.

They are hilarious, frequent drinking toasts and speak all kinds of toast, then. In the evening, you will often see a group of people to sing karaoke, tottered down the street, laughing, singing and controversy.

Korea people drink a lot of rules, for example, you must not only give himself drinks, or when you give more than you for older people to pour wine, you must be a hand on heart parts or drink one arm to show respect

Rice

4 rice!

And Japan, Korea almost every meal to eat rice.

Rice is also a part of their culture. In Korea, one of the ways in which common greeting is you eat rice.

But Japan is not the same person and the place is Korea people use a spoon to eat rice, but they never end up dishes for dinner.

Similarly, you do not place chopsticks into the rice, because only to those who worship the death, the will to do so.

Don't laugh

5 don't laugh!

Korea people enthusiastic and generous, but you're in public don't see the point.

Sometimes, in Korea in the street, you can see a lot of people to pull or face severe.

However, little children, they always laugh while grinning, called Hello, Hello.

Crowded crowds

6 pay attention to your elbow!

Korea is a crowded countries.

The hilly terrain, only a small number of valleys and Plains for human habitation.

In such countries, the results of pilots.

A large number of people in a small space, in order to catch the bus, take the elevator or purchase on the farmers ' markets to prefer food, hustled commonplace.

You don't even need to say excuse me or something, but still have to pay attention to older women.

Protest

7 protest!

In order to become a democratic society, Korea who did a lot of hard work.

Now, they often will exercise the power of the protest, and enjoy.

In fact, Korea, on the political field of all the problems going on frequent protests, and into the great enthusiasm.

Hiking

8 hiking!

Korea is a mountainous country, hiking is the nation's best pastime.

Even in the most crowded cities, there are several mountain you can let people get away from city crowds, rest

In the mountains, Korea has shown the best side.

They will greet you with a smile and say hello, and always adhere to share with you their food and drinks. Passing through a small hotel on the Hill, it is important to ensure that went in to a seafood pancake, then drink a cup of wine.

Dog meat

9 dog meat!

Yes, despite the Government's attempts to shut down some of the best selling dog meat soup restaurant to improve the international image of Korea, but some people do in Korea eat dog meat.

Korea people mainly in summer eating dog meat and eat dog meat is mostly men.

It is said that eating dog meat can improve energy.

Korea people

10 nationalism!

Korea is a very proud man, sometimes this pride will become fanatical nationalism.

Watch some sports events, you can feel this kind of nationalism: thousands of Korea fans for his national team with a chorus of cheers, side drum, side waving flags.

In particular, the term referred to Japan, their nationalism will become even more fanatic.

Japan had previously had invaded Korea several times, and when in the early 20th century will become their own colonial Korea, plundering a wealth of resources, and forcing thousands of Korea women become comfort women.