My song in my Seoul

                I stayed in Seoul for about a week. I was thinking I wouldn't love it but I was a little wrong.

People over there are kind of rude---for instance, talking loud on the phone on a train or a bus, spitting on the streets ( I saw only men doing that ), and saying nothing when passing each other very closely like getting off and on a train.

Of course not all of them do that and also some Japanese do that.

I didn't talk to so many people there but I generally had good feelings about them. Because they smiled at me and tried to talk to me.

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                Generally I have prejudices about many things. If I see a poster on a street or read a blog article, I just start thinking about how it was made and how a person thought when he made it. Even though I don't try to know it, I feel like that I understood it and think it's boring. Ah...I'm really living like denying everything that I see, hear, touch, smell and taste. That makes me a really inactive, boring person.

My attitude towards South Korea was the same as that. I never wanted to know anything about it. But after a few days in Seoul, I started to read some articles online, for their land area, population ( density ), history, custom of eating and so forth. Because I wanted to know more about the people I met there.

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The things that I liked and didn't like about Seoul

I liked
    ----Gimchi and gimbap
    ----There're a lot of old buildings
    ----It's not too clean
    ----Travel expenses are cheap
    ----They don't use western models for advertising that much. ( they also play Korean music everywhere. Since I didn't go to downtowns that much, I don't know how it is in a city centre. )
    ---It's not too big city, there're so many local markets everywhere. ( They deal in almost all parts of meat in butcher's shops. I got so scared to see some of them but still I think it's good because we can appreciate them. And they don't seem to throw away any parts. )
    ---It's easier to walk around because of less bicycles.

Photo somewhere in a local market, Seoul

I didn't like
    ※※※The air feels dirty. Especially exhaust gas seems to contain a kind of bad element. ( it smells bad. I think it's because of not-good catalysts or not-good ventilation system. )
    ※※※The streets are not clean. ( this is also my favorite thing about Seoul though. )
    ※※※It's difficult to get international products.
    ※※※Seoul is too big to ride a bicycle around. ( there're many districts in it, like big cities, outliers or local markets. )
    ※※※It smells like Gimchi even when I get on the subway.
    ※※※The popular makeup amongst the teenage girls is making their face shiny with a kind of liquid and putting on strong red lipstick.
    ※※※Their frying oil isn't good enough. ( I think it's because of their filtration system. )

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                I was also exposed to art by visitting some museums by accident. I generally didn't know how to walk around there or how to enjoy the artworks. But while my brain was wandering over the artworks, my thinking was changing. It's like---

"No need to avoid not-good things. I should be more open-minded."

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                As I just start feeling relieved and activated by listening to "Lolita1079 Dollhouse" now here in Yokohama ( I'd been annoyed with the atmosphere of the whole city today. ), the only thing I can do is being open to whatever and be happy with it.

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                I will quit my bad habit of saying negative things about the things that I don't know well. I know there're always good and bad. I know there're differences between us all.

I want to respect you as a different person. I don't wanna be 'superior', I just want to be loved. I don't need to try to beat anyone anymore.

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                You're very "happy" person. And I was looking for the way to be. That's why I managed to meet you finally.