{"id":11932,"date":"2020-05-02T00:15:42","date_gmt":"2020-05-01T16:15:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jipp-world.com\/blog\/?p=11932"},"modified":"2020-05-04T17:36:14","modified_gmt":"2020-05-04T09:36:14","slug":"weird-korean-travelers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jipp-world.com\/blog\/weird-korean-travelers\/","title":{"rendered":"Weird Korean Travelers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

So I was in Manila with my travel\nbuddy Elizabeth and we stayed at a place advertised as a \u2018Home Stay\u2019. It was\nactually an apartment which was turned into a hostel. We were placed in\n4-person room, with two bed bunks. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

So quite naturally, I took up the\ntop bed while Elizabeth took the lower bed. While most of the nights we had the\nroom all to ourselves, there was one night when a traveller from Korea came in\nto take up the other unoccupied bunk bed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

He didn\u2019t talk much, but then most Korean travellers don\u2019t really talk much. Perhaps it is the language. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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He would have been another\nforgettable traveller if he did not do one thing in particular. Before he went\nto sleep, he\u2019d put layers of newspapers on his bed and I can tell you, the bed\nwas so spotless and immaculate, I seriously did not see any need to do what he\ndid. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And yet he put the newspapers all\nover his bed. As weird as it might have looked to me and my travel buddy\nElizabeth, we would have just shrugged our shoulders off and allowed ourselves\nto get some good sleep so we could wake up fresh the next morning and continued\nexploring the beautiful city of Manila. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unfortunately, it didn\u2019t really happen that way. The newspapers would crumble and rustle under his rolling weight so we had to endure through all the noises all night long. The night turned out to be so long, at least to me. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Unfortunately, he left before we\neven had the chance to ask what kind of disease he was suffering through that\nhe had to do what he did, or whether it really was his physical needs or it was\nmore like in his head (and yes, I mean mental). While all the questions were\nleft unanswered, even until now, we were actually glad that he only stayed\nthere only for one night \u2013 so the suffering of having to endure through the\nstupid noises he made with the spread-out newspapers turned out to be a\none-night stand business. Phew. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But then somehow, it was not the only encounter with weird travellers from Korea during that particular trip. There was one time when we were enjoying a bucket (or two, or perhaps three, I don\u2019t remember now LOL) of San Miguel Light at a local bar near to our Home Stay when a commotion suddenly erupted. It turned out that the bouncers were trying to stop a small group of Korean travellers from leaving without paying for the beers that they had already ordered and drank. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Doing a little bit of digging-in (or digging-out, whichever you think will suit you and your thoughts), we found out that the Koreans had joined a group of locals at a table, ordered beers and decided to leave (without paying), expecting the locals to pay the beers for them. I think the locals already knew the trick, and wouldn\u2019t buy it so they had probably told the bouncers or the waiters that they were not going to pay for the beers that they Korean travellers had ordered and drank. Or perhaps even the bouncers and the waiters already knew. Perhaps, this kind of stupid behaviour which I could only pin down to some superiority complex was not really unexpected from a group of Korean travellers.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And yes indeed, who would have thought that we\u2019d become a victim of this very stupidity the very next day. We were having another round of San Miguel Light at an open stall by the side of a road when a couple from Korea came to join us. So introducing themselves and we to them, they ordered beers for themselves and continued chatting up with us. I gotta say it was a cheerful conversation and me and Elizabeth were quite enjoying it, except for what they did in the end. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

They left without paying. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fucking wierd Koreans. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

P\/S : To be fair this was back in 2012, so I am sure the Koreans have changed over the years. And I have met good (and bad) Korean tourists since then. This was only based on the thoughts that I remember coming to me during that time. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So I was in Manila with my travel buddy Elizabeth and we stayed at a place advertised as a \u2018Home Stay\u2019. It was actually an apartment which was turned into a hostel. We were placed in 4-person room, with two bed bunks. So quite naturally, I took up the top bed while Elizabeth took the lower bed. While most of the nights we had the room all to ourselves, there was one night when a traveller from Korea came in…<\/p>\n

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