cerealjoe | Ajumma/ajusshi, look them up if you don't know what they mean. (Reply)

Now, if I've learnt a few things from kdramas about Korea... it's the following:
- In Korea, people decide to get married and it happens about a week later, sometimes two days later. You usually have to reserve a hotel lounge thing or something and you always manage to have tons of people present even though you only announced the event hours earlier!
- In Korea, you can get pregnant by pretty much just holding hands. I mean kissing will certainly lead you to a baby, there is no doubt about it. (This is only true for "happy" dramas, it doesn't apply to dramas that will fuck with your mind like IRIS)
- In Korea, ajummas love perms. If their hair isn't curly, it's going to be a very bad week.
- In Korea, there will always be someone who will oppose your wedding.
- In Korea, Seoul only has very clean backstreets... they should see where this guesthouse is!
- In Korea, people will always go to talk to cafes right in the middle of the day, even if they have a job. Apparently bosses/supervisors are super duper cool about letting people off for an hour or two at any given point.

And you know what? The ajumma fact is true! There are so many ajummas around, it's incredible. I just feel like walking up to them just to hear them squawk about this or that!

There seem to be two main types of ajummas. The permed haired ones with the see-through visor (pink or purple most of the time). And then there is the ajumma who is dutifully hiding from the sun under an umbrella.

That brings me to another point, apparently t-shirts are ok but tank tops or "marcel" types of shirts are not in. I wore a "marcel" shirt and I think I was the only one. I mean I saw a couple of really short shorts but damn, not a single bare shoulder! Those poor people must have thought I was crazy walking around with such pale skin and bare shoulders. Do not worry people of Seoul, I wore SPF80 sunscren in a thick layer! And so far it seems nothing is red.

But what's the relation between the kdramas and this post? Well, you can also have your wedding banquet at the WC Stadium! So not only groceries, fashion sales, films, museum (and possibly a football match), you can also get married while you're at it!

Right next to the stadium they made this little park where they tried to put some old school stuff.

You can go up some stairs... which lead pretty much nowhere. There is a sign that says something but it's only in Korean.

Lots of ajummas and ajusshis were sitting around reading.

Some people even attempted to fish along one of the canals that lead to the Han River.

And here is some local wildlife!

And now to the part which makes me glad that the new camera can take rather ok high-res photos.

There was this ajumma and ajusshi that were walking in front of me and they basically pretty much fit all my ideas of what an ajumma and ajusshi should look like. Especially the ajumma! She had the perm, the visor (purple), white long sleeves to protect her skin from the sun, white gloves (to protect her hands) and shorts which weren't really her type. Whenever they had to wait to cross the street they'd go over into the shade.

Yes, I'm a creeper. But that ajumma was perfect!

At least so far I've resisted my urge to photograph kpop related ads. I've seen Hyori with soju, Big Bang with some chicken (for the WC), F4's Kim Kibum for some phone, TOP for Lollipop2, Bi/Rain ads for pretty much everything, Nichkhun for some phone, all of 2PM (or rather 6PM) for some random drink, etc. They're everywhere! Maybe it's the same in Finland but I really don't know that many famous Finnish people.

And on another note, I just went to the local FamilyMart and the guy there looks like the twin of an actor from a drama. But I can't remember which drama and who the actor is. It's been driving me mad for an hour now... it's an actor that's not "hot", his charm comes from somewhere else. Argh!!!!!