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So this is Korea
The ride from the airport to the Holiday Inn was very interesting. My driver would drive up behind other cars in his lane at about 110 Kilometres and then turn on his hazard lights and headlights and flash them until the car in front would move over. I never understood why, but it helped move…
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Underground Rugby
The train roared in, appearing to go right past the platform, and then stopped almost instantly. Hundreds of faces pushed flat against the windows bursting out as they doors opened. Orderly lines of commuters on the platform turned into a stampeding mob mauling its way to the carriage filling every gap created by those tumbling…
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Glass Jars
I watched across the room in silence like a voyeur as this stranger was about to take part in a most disgusting ritual. On this young Chinese gentleman’s desk, was a stained brown jar partly filled with a murky looking fluid partly covered a tangle of decomposing green and brown leaves and stalks? Reaching for…
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Security Pat Down
“Do you have a laptop sir” a Chinese security guard standing by the entrance to the baggage scanner at Beijing Airport asked. He, like the rest of the many security guards is dressed in a smart navy blue uniform. The uniform had a shield like American sheriffs have on their arm and there were two white…