Truth be told, I found Korea / Seoul to be quite an enigma.
The country it felt most similar to was surprisingly Singapore. Kind of like Singapore + land + history. Seoul was absolutely spotless.
I think Irvine and Seoul have a lot in common. Seoul felt like Irvine blown up into a New York City scale.
The people were always very helpful, just not exuberantly expressive.
The standards for dress were both intimating and impressive.
I felt apologetic with a higher frequency than usual. Part of it was not fitting in, but the other part was that so many of the service jobs were filled by Korean elders (interesting artifact about their economy), and because my age rank is so much lower in Asian society I always yearned to give them a lot of respect.
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