Of Cultural Differences

I was in the Korean Republic (South Korea) recently on a business trip and arrived,with a colleague, a day prior to reporting to the venue. We were suppose to meet up with another colleague and to be picked up at the Incheon International Airport the next day. So I suggested to my colleague that we just store our luggage at the airport's storage facility and maybe shower at the airport.

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We touched down at about 6.30 a.m. and exited the arrival hall around 7.00 and stored our luggage. We found out that the shower facilities was in a spa at the airport, and we got to pay 20,000 KWon to use it. Hence we decided to skip shower and took a bus ride into Seoul, and we disembarked at Itaewon and had kebab for breakfast.

We went around Seoul by subway and finally took the bus back to Incheon International at about 9.00 p.m., took our stored luggage and then went down to the spa for our shower. We found out that besides shower we can use the facilities like the lounge where you can sit and watch tv and sleep on the recliner seats.

As we were putting our things in the locker we went looking for our bath towels, and what did we find? Towels the size of face towels. And guess what? That was the size of towels available... Much to our chagrin :)

We left for Anseong the next morning to the meeting venue, checked into our rooms and what did we find? Face towel sized towels as bath towels....

I told my colleagues, maybe we should use the towels to cover our faces....




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