>>2875819
Korea is just Japanese Canada.

>>2875819
>I'm surprised there isn't a Korea General.
If you stay long enough on /trv/, you'll find it's not surprising at all. The few Korea threads we do get eventually devolve into shitposts that either hate the country or shill Japan instead.

The only Asian countries that are popular on /trv/ are Japan, Thailand, and Philippines.

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>>2875819
As someone who has a softspot for under dogs, and liked Korea since seeing Taegukgi and blowing up North Korean monuments in Mercenaries on the PS2 with the infinite airstrike glitch. I honestly don't know why a dude would go who wasn't sent by work or stationed by the military. Women have K-Pop and K-Dramas to explain why they might go. South Korea is the middle child of East Asia. China and Japan will absorb the bulk of Western tourists. North Korea is a meme I guess, so it will always attract a certain type of tourist.
Outside of the Korean bbq, the local cuisine is an acquired taste. I mean I know dudes happily living there. They've married a local, and they are far removed from foreigners in way most Japanese gaijin can only dream of. But it's a mystery to me how they ended up there. Most foreigners living there quickly move on to Japan or SE Asia.
My tip for Seoul is go to Hongdae. Eat lots of samgyeopsal, drink lots of Cass and Soju.
https://www.tiktok.com/@lendsyyyy/video/7621246955993173279

>>2875819
Korea is a useless place to go when China and Japan exist

it isn't as shilled on social media or geared towards tourists so its an authentic experience when you are there. It's like how you would have experienced Japan before it became popular and was still obscure.

>>2875845
It’s just a fucking shithole. Somehow Koreans managed to make hyper dystopias of consumerism and authoritarian communism.

>>2875945
>it isn't as shilled on social media

Someone has been living under a rock for the last decade

>>2875918
>China and Japan will absorb the bulk of Western tourists
I far prefer both of those places to Korea but is that true? I imagine Korea gets far more Western tourists than China

>>2876215
>I imagine Korea gets far more Western tourists than China
Lol China gets more tourists than even Japan does. It's one of the top 10 most visited place in the world annually.

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>>2875899
not that anon but I have been seeing a big spike in people traveling to korea the past few years which was a surprise to me. What exactly do you do there and why go there instead of japan, vietnam, or thailand? I dont have any bad impressions of korea but I genuinely want to know what is drawing people there

>>2876227
>>2876228
Is this true even if you filter for only EU and North American tourists? I'm just going off vibes but at least in US everyone has been to Japan now, many have been to Korea, Im still the only guy who's been to China, for the most part

>>2876320
>US everyone has been to Japan now
Most Americans have never left their state

>>2876325
Yes thanks I'm speaking a little imprecisely point being of Americans who travel to Asia it's pretty clear Japan is overwhelmingly destination #1 and China is still seen as off the beaten path

First day in Seoul and I already regret it.
>No app purchase for public transport, everything is physical.
>went to a station in Gangnam to load up my card. There are only 2 machines and the only one accepting credit card broke down
>went to another station, it took my payment but didn't load up.
>went to a worker for help and they couldn't help
>tried to exchange money but the 7-11 and gs25 dont offer this even though they advertise it in their doors
>went to the bank and they are closed.
I should have just stayed in China

>>2876558
filtered

>>2876558
that sounds horrible, did you eventually get cash?

>>2876634
Yes, the 3rd 7-11 finally had exchange service. Visited Myendong and Gwanja market, both were very nice. The hotteok is the best dessert I had in East Asia but their mandu are probably the worst.

I walked around Gangnam a bit and it feels somewhat empty. I thought it was supposed to be a bougies areas, but instead I only saw empty streets and closed shops. What happened?

>>2875819
I love Korea. Pretty thick Asian girls and Korean Barbecue.
What more could you want.

>>2876558
I had the same exact problem.
Its always been a pain in the ass to load up the transit cards on my first days and I have taken hours to fix it.
You always need physical cash to load up the cards and a lot of banks don't allow me to pull cash from my bank.
11 USD for 3 days of public transit (trains and buses) in Seoul in kino though

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>>2875819
Busan is fun. Locals were talkative

So give me the low down. Are Korean women still into white men or are they all men-hating feminists like the media says?

Or do they only hate Korean men?

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>>2877060
>So give me the low down. Are Korean women still into white men or are they all men-hating feminists like the media says?
>Or do they only hate Korean men?
If you don't speak Korean (it's hard) and you have to rely on English, English itself is feminist coded. I had a lot of success in Korea as a white guy that speaks Korean, but out of all of the girls I was familiar with the only ones who knew English were hardcore feminists. This is a small percent of the overall population, but a high percent of the population you will have access to as a foreign traveller. Of the feminists, there is a significant portion of them who want to racemixx intentionally, but they appear to have severe mental illness. The most racist out of touch questions you will ever be asked will come from them.

Also another thing you should keep in mind, if you go there as a foreign white guy, it's hard to get another foreign girl in Korea. All of the foreign females there are basically sexpats that want to try gook dick. The only foreigners in Korea that fucked me while I was there were literal refugees from Afghanistan North Korea etc that were there against their will. The other foreign girls from Europe, E Asia etc gave me no play even though in other places I've travelled to they were always staples for me

>>2877093
It used to be high pay but now kpop zoomers are willing to go there for min wage and it sucks. Or so I heard. If you can get a public school job it seems somewhat comfy though

>>2876774
my favourite Korean city. Lived there for five years. Lots to do and less generic/cookie cutter than Seoul. Also seaside, mountains, and stuff to do and see that was not bombed out from the war. My only knock is that my old neighbourhood Daejigookbap Restaurant by the Jurye Subway station was turned into condoes and highrises.

>>2877093
>>2877098
this. Public school jobs are pretty good. I did an all boys middle school with the old EPIK program back in the day, but funding has really been cut for a lot of that. Wages have also from what I understand not changed in decades despite the rise in cost of living. Work wise you have to plan lessons, grind like crazy to reach the kids, be prepared to have your ego smashed, and master the art of desk warming. At least you are working largely 8 to 4 pm though and get all the holidays unlike Hagwons that brutalize you. If you are in your late 20s early 30s though it is an experience like no other truly living in another country. Also when you get a bit of time off, Busan is a good base with the little airport in Gimhae to hop down to SEA, China, Japan, Taiwan, etc. to spend the odd week or two.

>>2877093
It runs the gamut, they have the hagwon private schools and public school positions. I haven't touched a hagwon but I heard it can be tough. If the parents don't like you for whatever reason, the school may not have your back. The teachers that succeed there tend to be salesman types able to fake smile and all that.
For public schools, there was a feeling that putting a foreigner in the room = automatically the kids will be better at English. In some respects this has been true, some of the teachers try hard but can't figure what syllables to stress or even how to pronounce some pretty basic words. So, some schools would just have the foreign teacher sit there until it was time to pronounce something. AKA The human tape recorder. On the other end of the spectrum, schools would have the teacher plan out lessons and teach up to 6 lessons a week. With pretty much zero guidance on what to teach. Some of them would start to burn out and play movies or music. One Brit I know was trying to show LOTR and Back to the Future trilogies before getting told to start teaching again.
IDK where things are at now, this was a long time ago when KPOP was just still quirky and new. Maybe a few koreaboo girls were there for K-Drama shit, but probably nothing like it is now. As other anon said, KPOP has probably tanked salaries/bennies from those professions the way anime did for Japan.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIxulZIQILA

>>2875918
Other than the raw octopus, which tastes of seawater, the food is really fucking great, unless your a literal child who can only eat tendies, in which case you should kys

>>2877156
Yeah dude that's why you see Korean chain restaurants everywhere... oh wait. (And don't say Korean BBQ I already covered that.)
There's one authentic Korean restaurant in my city, and I love it. I think they do a really good job of getting it right. I have taken normies to it. They don't like it man.

>>2877097
Hmm... interesting.

I'm actually thinking of trying to learn Korean because it seems at least a bit easier then Chinese or Japanese. How did you learn the language?

>>2877097
Hypothetically, how receptive are Korean chicks in their early to mid 20's being hit on a guy in his early 30's (But who takes care of himself so he's decently attractive)?

>>2877172
Koreans do not want to fuck foreigners, even attractive ones. It is still a major social taboo for women. Korean men are also incredibly insecure/defensive and will immediately gang up to try and cockblock you if they see you talking to "their" women. Girls who were otherwise interested will usually shy away at this point due to social disapproval. And you're almost certainly not decently attractive by their standards. It is obviously not impossible to get laid but Korea is one of the worst countries in the world for casual sex/dating. Most people who comment otherwise are lying.

Your best chance is swiping on dating apps and looking for Westernized, anti-Korean iconoclasts with daddy issues.

>>2877171
Chinese has easier grammar than Korean, Korean is probably easier than Japanese if you have good resources though, since writing and reading is less of an obstacle. Of course, the biggest factor in making learning a language easy is your motivation to do so.

>>2877171
Hardcore immersion. It took years. The hardest part is the pronunciation, they have a lot of sounds english doesnt have and if your pronunciation is shitty the language becomes useless. And the grammar is also a nightmare compared to Japanese, the infrastructure for dictionaries and resources etc is much worse than Japanese. Even though people think Chinese is harder because of the tones, I found Chinese to be much more forgiving towards beginners, I guess because they have so many dialects.
>>2877172
More than 5 years age gap or so is taboo and pretty strictly adhered to. It's not like other countries in Asia where you can be 40 dating a 19 year old and it's no big deal.
>>2877173
It can be good for s3x but you have to basically become an entirely different person that makes you incompatible with the women of other countries. A lot of stuff that gooks want you to do is autistic and weird to the rest of the world. I had s3x with a lot of women when I was there, but I'm white, American, know the language, was unemployed, knew their game, and lowered my standards to fuck a lot of women that, honestly, Korean men wouldn't. Fucked almost 40 in 18 months, 1 of those was viet and one of those was a nork and the rest were south korean. Most of them around my age. Pretty much all of them had one or more features that gook men perceive as a "problem". Eg - too young/old, too tall, too fat, too yellow, too poor, did working holiday in Australia, father died, didn't graduate college, etc
All of these things are dealbreakers to gookmen but dont matter to me. I can accept mid.

But a negative side effect of learning the gook style is that it worsens your ability to be normal towards girls in other countries. After 40 in 18 months in Seoul, it was 1 in 6 months in NYC (a gook chink hybrid)
5 in 3 months in India (game surprisingly translated well there)
and 0 in 3 months in China
and 1.5 in two weeks in KL (both gooks, one was on her period so I guess it doesnt count)

>>2875819
why is the jeju logo arabic?

>>2876204
>dystopias of consumerism
>a society i observe from the perspective of an outsider is solely about shopping because that's all i see

>>2877172
At age 30 you really should start thinking about dating to get married. Which is what East Asian chicks are about. A lot of them are ready to get serious after 2 or 3 dates. They are considered "leftover women" by the time *they* hit 30. So they're in a rush. Compared to Western women who hit 43 and before they start to wonder why guys don't want an LTR with them anymore.
>>2877173
Not my experience, but I wasn't a redpill PUA guy. I dated a couple decently attractive Korean women. I was in a small town, and I got the sense that they wanted out though. It was fun. And nobody cared. Maybe times have changed idk.
>>2877453
It isn't.
>>2877454
It is dystopian in some respects, but what country isn't at this point.

>>2877183
I don't know if you're a tourist zoomer from tiktok or something, but words like 'sex' don't get filtered on 4chan

>>2877473
you must be a /trv/ tourist if you are unaware of the heavy hand of the jannyjeets on this topic

>>2877156
raw octopus is delicious. A bit of sesame oil on that with some of the gochu on the side. The best. Spending an afternoon in the fish market it is where it is at. Go to a big one and make your picks, head up to the sit down areas and get down. Alternatively, go to a smaller one like in Busan, make your picks, head to the beach, and get down.

>>2877171
Korean is easy to read but needs a lot of work speaking it. After a few lessons and a few drinks though it gets easier and easier as does the chance to chat up women or bullshit with the taxi driver on the way home.

>>2877173
I would strongly disagree. There are a lot of Korean women who see dating a foreigner as being something fun or adventurous. Most of the fear is in them worrying about being to communicate with you as a lot are not confident in their English. Getting involved in language cafes is a great way to meet people but also get yourself a bit of a Korean lesson as well. I would also suggest it is a good idea to get some Korean bros. They are amazing wingmen as group dating or pick ups is usually how a lot of them meet women. Just remember to return the favour for them.

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>>2877550
no he's correct. foreigners get the bottom of the barrel. normal korean women obviously aren't attending language cafes or meeting foreigners at all. you strongly disagree because it hurts your ego.
>lot of korean women
haha my ass you delusional faggot. the women who'd even entertain the idea of socializing foreigners are a tiny self-selected group. the native koreans spending time abroad don't even bother befriending non-koreans, let alone inside korea.

>>2877173
look at how much seethe this post caused. there's a reason white guys get the most hideous chicks

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>>2877471
>decently attractive
sure you did you deluded retard. women in a small town that "want out"? attractive women with options don't "want out" nor do they live in small towns. it's hilarious seeing whites cope with the reality that attractive Koreans don't racemix

>>2877550
Most normal korean women aren’t going to those language exchanges though, they stay in their own social groups and prefer to date other koreans, its like a black dude harpooning obese white chicks and claiming that white girls love black dick lol

So yeah... desitinations... anyone ever camped in SoKo? I hear it is a thing. A friend of mine was talking about sleeping out by the river in Miryang where they have free camp grounds with little platforms for people to sleeping bag it up under the stars at night. Is this true or are you going to get your dick and ass penetrated by mosquitos?

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>>2877636
Yeah I kayaked and camped a couple nights at I think Chungju Lake. I don't remember all the details, but we paddled around until we found a nice spot to camp at. A few places by the lake were actually gravesites. If you go hiking in Korea, a lot of hilltops are family graveyards. It was very pretty place. We were cooking some Shin Ramyun and MREs when three Korean gangsters walked through our campsite. We were like "Wtf is going on?" They set up fishing rods for eels and offered us a canned coffee. Apparently we were in their fishing spot.
The next day we navigated around the lake some more, and encountered a few Koreans fishing on the water and a big tour boat. We found another spot in a field. As I was getting out of the boat I bumped a branch and some insect fell on my back and bit me. That was the only bug bite I recall. This may have been in the Spring or something though. That night a Korean dude foraging for mushrooms gave us one. We drove back home the next day.

>>2877611
It's hilarious seeing the absolute seethe from hapas and /r/asianmasculinity that they do, idiot.

>>2877471
>small town
>attractive
Almost all attractive women will congregate to Seoul. Maybe attractive to your standards

>>2877690
I guess she wasn't one of the almost all's.
I'm just trying to imagine me joining a message board in Korean and telling the guys there that dated American chicks, that they're delusional, it didn't happen, or they must've been ugly.

>>2877550
No. Attractive, wealthy, high status Korean women would literally never be caught dead in public with a foreigner. If you're in the right place at the right time you might be able to sleep with some nascent rebel with daddy issues, but it is exceedingly rare compared to basically every other country on earth. Their "fear" has nothing to do with English, you're just regurgitating dumb weeb fantasies and foreigner platitudes. Foreigners, foreign languages and foreign cultures are beneath them and they have zero interest in cultural exchange. They're so indoctrinated into this way of thinking that they literally are literally, physically repulsed by foreigners. Think of the way a southern belle in the antebellum south would have thought about a nigger slave. That's what they think about you.

Obviously you can get laid in Korea, and even date, but these women are what Koreans would consider to be bottom of the barrel. That doesn't mean they're necessarily unattractive to the rest of the world; just to say that they're not the type of girls that any Korean man would consider to be a catch. There's a reason for the adage "the best place to sleep with Korean women is anywhere except Korea".

>>2877697
Why are you so invested in this narrative?
>>2877695
>I'm just trying to imagine me joining a message board in Korean and telling the guys there that dated American chicks, that they're delusional, it didn't happen, or they must've been ugly.
That's a good point, there's much less shit stirring on there. I wonder why? Isn't it weird?

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>Twosome Place
>Mom's Touch
why are Korean signs so horny?

>>2877542
the jannies aren't banning you for saying the word, they're banning you for discussing the topic. censoring the 'e' in 'sex' will not save you

>>2877697
This sounds like some insane cope from a guy that got ignored by Korean women.
>Think of the way a southern belle in the antebellum south would have thought about a nigger slave. That's what they think about you.
Get a grip

>>2878344
Many guys go to Korea and get BTFO and seethe about it eternally online. I had a good time there and did well, but it seems I am in the minority. I think certain phenotypes and styles of game get hard walled there and some things you rely on in other countries turns you into an incel in Korea
(vice-versa, to be fair)

>>2878348
I think there's just a specific underclass of men travelling whose only experience abroad with women was SEA and can't even fathom that JBW doesn't work in east asia

>>2878351
I'm white and east asia is easier than SEA because I have a triple digit IQ and i'm not a paypig

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>>2878344
he's correct. attractive koreans don't racemix. whites on 4chan obviously know this is true but it hurts them so bad to acknowledge it out loud.

>>2878348
>still completely missing the point
The women you slept with are not desirable by Korean standards. You might have found them hot (and they might have actually been objectively good looking), but in Korea they're either unattractive or damaged goods. Any woman that has her pick of the litter in Korea will not be caught dead associating with a foreigner, let alone dating them.

>>2878344
>zero retort

>>2878358
>thai writing
>>2878362
>internet addict thinks he categorically knows every single detail and preference about entire groups of people
cope

>>2878316
the sandwiches in Twosome Place man...

Reading through all this cope from people who struck out hard in SoKo with women because they thought it would be easy or a bunch of spergs who only follow yellow fever poonhounds on insta and hate on them because they never have sex and have to contruct a narrative as to actually coming to grips with their own failures.

>>2878419
kek. many such cases. idk why korea brings out the fuming spergs more than taiwan china or japan but it definitely does

>>2878421
I think it is driven by a mixture of things. Probably missing some here:

1. Pre-concieved narratives of SoKo from their entertainment that create shock the moment reality hits you in the face
2. from people who have never gone and only follow shit online and are triggered by dudes actually getting sex and having a good time
3. Korean dudes who hate on any women who goes with a foreigner but also mad because they will never get to ride a white horse
4. Dudes who spent way too much time only in foreigner bars and Thursday Party and striking out and are butthurt about it.
5. Spending too much time in NA Universities and Colleges being shot down by KP's who fuck a murderers row of black dudes but then instantly marry some random from back home who they date for like 5 minutes.

That aside I agree that South Korea seems to have some sort of unique ability to provoke that is unlike its neighbours.

>>2878421
sperg bros would never go after Japan because they are mostly weebs and any women that touches them are considered goddesses. They do not go after China and Taiwan because they never go.

>>2878429
>striking out in Thursday Party
ㅋㅋㅋ
is it possible?

yeah I can see it being an unholy alliance between two or three groups.
group 1: redditors who try to tell jokes and play clowngame in korea and seethe when it doesnt work
group 2: korean incels who are obsessed with racemixxing and aggressively try to mateguard their women (they dont know that just makes it worse)
group 3: browncels that are hispanic american, indian canadian, se asian etc

>>2878436
it happens. That is when you go to Ho Bar.

>>2878430
I don't understand this take. So weebs see Japan as above them and the other countries as below them, ok, but why do they end up seething about Korea? You can say they never go to China or Taiwan, but that begs the question as to why they go to Korea and come home coping instead of the other neighbors to Japan

>>2878447
The weeb fantasy is perhaps easier to sustain as it based on animation which is farther removed from reality so it has more room to fill in the blanks. I think Korea and its KPop has a lot of cross over with sections of the weebs but as it is based on actual people there is more of a reaction as it is closer to the real. That and there is a pre-existing rivalry within weebs who follow anime who see themselves as culturally superior to those who follow manufactured girl groups. Let's also face it, a lot of people judge Korea based on a quick three day stop over in Seoul.

>>2878471
based and boggpilled

>>2878363
I'm Korean and I lived there for eight years (while also dating and getting married). You're clueless because you don't speak the language. Also this is well known and not some epic truth nuke, so I'm not sure why you're relentlessly samefagging

>>2878502
>I'm Korean
kek

>just meet them if you wanna smash
Lmao. If you are white, just hop on insta and dm any korean women with over 10k followers. Make sure it’s over 10k since it’s a social proof.

there's this korean youtuber I watch and her mom is korean (barely speaks english), and her dad is never mentioned (but assumedly asian judging by her appearance)

she made videos where she traveled to korea and ate street food and they were fun because she actually speaks english (raised in california I think), and its hard to find korean content where they actually speak english

but then she found a bald ginger (so many azn women end up with bald ginger nerd guys just because they are the entry level white guy./wanna have bleached kids) and now she's pregnant so I doubt she's ever going back to korea to make vids

and I totally assumed she was a lesbian too
she doesn't really give off girly vibes at all

>>2878647
Baldies aren't real men so they're suitable mates for lesbos

>>2878647
There was a big youtube channel of a white Canadian couple living in Korea called Eat Your Kimchi. They were hagwon teachers in Seoul, and eventually their channel took off. They were riding the KPOP wave and went from doing just normal vlog stuff about being English teachers and lesson planning to talking about KPOP and travel stuff. They even kind of became local celebrities, making it onto TV. After IDK 7 years, they moved to Japan. The Koreans and KPOP girls watching their channel were pissed about this. Felt betrayed. To add insult to injury, the girl did a long video of her gripes about living in Korea. The couple eventually split up and left Japan. IDK of any other K-Vloggers.

>>2877697
>>2878344
>>2878348
>>2878358
>>2878362
There are two simultaneously true things that you guys should stop bickering/coping over
1) Koreans are less White-crazy than other E Asian countries, which combined with worse language barrier makes it *marginally* harder to hook up there as a ≥normie white guy
2) If you believe women ANYWHERE have a sincere aversion to foreigners or 'racemixing' with good looking whites you are a retard. But in practice this means they will not date you but would fuck you under the right circumstances.

>>2876228
>51.2 million men have gotten hair plugs

>>2879057
but fucking and dating are the same thing I swear!

>>2879056
oh shit that is nostalgic. There were loads of foreign teachers that followed them too as they had a lot of helpful vids about how to set things up, do things, and live life in a foreign country. It was super helpful when I moved over there in 2009 as there was nothing really like that at the time. In retrospect some of their shit was vaguely "look at how odd these Koreans are lol" which I am going to assume pissed off a lot of officials, but also as SoKo tried to move its teams of people into producing its own content for tourism then a lot of these people got pushed out. They were also arguably a bit ahead of their time as youtube did not have the monetization aspect down as it does now. There is also a lot of resistance towards people that want to stay there unless they marry Koreans and assimilate which these two clearly were not going to do. I think there were also medical issues that really also added stress to the two and Japan picked them up essentially as free agents, but they failed as they were just yet another "foreigner in Japan with a vlog."

>>2879057
yeah the ugly ones sure. that's the demographic of korean women that will fuck whites. ugly, socially marginalized, 30+, mentally ill.

>>2879087
what's the difference

>>2879120
>ugly, socially marginalized, 30+, mentally ill.
(You)

>>2879122
relationship vs. cumdumpster
romance vs. slampig
partnership vs. single use

>>2879120
sounds like fun. Every now and then we need to climb a steep mountain and ride a roller coaster

>>2879150
>relationship vs. cumdumpster
>romance vs. slampig
>partnership vs. single use
all of these only apply from the man's point of view

>>2879056
Its just nice to find people who actually speak English but can talk about Korean food and culture knowledgeably. Finding a Korean-American woman who seemingly speaks at least some Korean and fluent English was sort of a gold mine cuz I don't like videos where they are ESL and you can't really understand everything easily and they just aren't eloquent in describing their travels or the food.

>There is also a lot of resistance towards people that want to stay there unless they marry Koreans and assimilate which these two clearly were not going to do.
interesting, this chick married a white guy so that's never gonna happen either
Japan is a much more oversaturated market and imho somewhat less interesting because the locals have palates like a child.

>>2879166
I know a quite a few Korean Americans and White dudes living there, but they are very gatekeep-y. They don't share their secret bars and restaurants around. Avoid other foreigners where possible.
I think that mindset seems to prevail there maybe. The Koreans can be very down on themselves and their situation. it's called "han" and the closest translation is a deep, internalized feeling of sorrow, regret, unresolved resentment, and helpless rage.
Not exactly a tourism poster.
I went there with zero expectations about anything, and had a good time. A lot of time it gave me nostalgic vibes and it's very safe in terms of crime. But it is a bit grimey, a bit dirty, a bit rundown. The hospitals are gross. You can smell poo gas smells walking down the street. The restaurants aren't that great in general. There's not as much for a youtuber to do there compared to other, bigger countries. IMO.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nhgqa4jcnrw

>>2879306
I don't even want to actually visit though, I just find the food a bit less bland than Japanese food and some of the fancy Korean bakery videos have millions of views. It's an interesting alternative world like a very organized China. I'm sure most people who speak English and watch Korean food/culture videos are probably not even going to visit. That's unnecessary paranoia.

>But it is a bit grimey, a bit dirty, a bit rundown.
I mean, so are parts of America. Hard to give me a sense of how that differs. The ghettos of America are sad, and there's plenty of rural parts of America with junk and decay and falling apart homes.

>The restaurants aren't that great in general.
finding a hidden gem in a sea of mediocrity is more useful anyways

>>2879308
>I'm sure most people who speak English and watch Korean food/culture videos are probably not even going to visit. That's unnecessary paranoia.
Yeah but these guys mostly encounter the KPOP girlies and LBH's (losers back home), so they don't want to take any chances.
>I mean, so are parts of America. Hard to give me a sense of how that differs. The ghettos of America are sad, and there's plenty of rural parts of America with junk and decay and falling apart homes.
Yeah I'm not talking about the ghettos of Korea here though
>finding a hidden gem in a sea of mediocrity is more useful anyways
There are hidden gems. They like a drink. So lots of opportunities to imbibe and have fun.

>>2878647
Name of her channel?

>>2877097
>korean women are insane and hate men
good id get along with them.

>>2879319
>LBH's (losers back home)
Reddit meme phrase made by anti-white incels

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I find it sad that /trv/ bald middle managers are talking about fucking Korean anything.

You are competing with https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OfOkiVFmhM, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NArH91kHoQ and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrDeQ4sF0zo
If you don't understand why women find this attractive (as normie and cringe it might be), if you don't understand why women like guys who seems a bit feminine and mysterious and emo, yet have large shoulders after a 18 month long military service + Gangnam plastic surgery, you will NEVER get laid there.

It's hard mode in Asia, even 95% of foreign female tourists want the K-Boy K-Dick, so visit Korea for its own culture and its chill pace of life -- as a tourist.
Seethe at the girls watching K-dramas if you want in the hostel common room, but it's actually better to become friends with them because they have good tips.
I recommend going to rock concerts and clubs in Hongdae when in Seoul, and going to Beomeosa Temple and the Igidae hiking trail in Busan, then hanging around Namcheon at night (be careful, the subway stops earlier than in Seoul and there are no real night buses).
And go to 7-11 at any hour of the day and get drunk on makgeolli and soju all the time. Eat some weird soups. I fucking miss how easy life was there as a tourist.

>>2879319
>LBH
if you use this phrase you are either a roastie or a faggot. in either case gtfo of here

>>2875845
How come?

>>2880604
>It's hard mode in Asia
It's only hard if you make it hard by not knowing the social scripts. A lot of the things 국s do is perceived as straight up socially retarded outside of korea. it's topsy turvy land with its own value system and set of rules. Your success is directly correlated to your ability to navigate it. Go in there popping reddit zingers and trying some 2deep4u needy connection bullshit and you will get absolutely nothing.

>>2880637
Getting pussy is easy but i feel like they expect the women to swoon just by mere existence. Do these nigga really travel to find love. The fuck

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>>2880606
Come to think of it, the only people I heard say that in Korea were pretty insufferable. Strike that term and replace it with redditor or something idk.

>>2880658
I never heard anyone use that term in real life in my 5 years in Korea. It's reddit-adjacent for sure