Things to Make You Smile

A quick, cheerful post tonight. There are a lot of things that I love about Korea, here are a few.

-99% of the people I run into are super friendly and helpful.
-Korean grandmas love handing out treats to my kids. Especially when they are behaving. (Yay for positive reinforcement!)
-Restaurants usually give you wet wipes to clean your hands before and after you eat.
-The packaging on just about everything is designed well and is easy to open!
-People accessorize their cars! Flower shaped hub caps, eye lashes on the head lights, fancy paint jobs, wind-up-keys, long paragraphs for you to read at stop lights...and more!

-Giveaways! On the sidewalks I am occasionally handed fans or packs of wet wipes with advertising on them, but in the stores things really get interesting. Sometimes it makes sense: buy a big box of coffee, get a free thermos. Buy shampoo, get free conditioner. Buy diapers, get wipes (with Twins advertising?!). But sometimes it seems a little random: buy a phone, get a free giant pack of toilet paper or laundry detergent. Buy batteries, get a free ice pack! It makes shopping a little more surprising and fun.

-There are lots of surprises to make me smile.

Robots! Moving, talking, telephone selling robots!

Subway Art!

Fun snacks in neat packaging! All this came packed inside the bus.

Water fresh from the DMZ.

New board games!

-And, of course we can't forget the fun signs! Don't get me wrong, I'm not at all trying to make fun of anyone. I LOVE all of the English signs, shirts, etc. They help me survive. I also love how sometimes things get lost in translation.

I don't know. Don't ask.

I don't know what this sign says. But it is my favorite. Beware the monster fish.

At the zoo. I think the picture is telling me not to feed the animals. Can anyone verify what the Hangul says?

What a fun way of telling you to look up into the bottom of a fish tank!

There are so many coffee shops here and many have fun names.

The focus of this picture is not my adorable preschooler posing with the bronze statue. It's the guy on the left.

Hysterical. (This is sized for a preschooler.) I would be the owner of three of them except that it only came in white. Seriously, who puts little boys in white shirts?!

This is not a notice in our apartment complex. I saw this in an elevator and just loved the "enormous psychological damages" line. I wonder if that would work on my boys? "Shh. You're giving mommy enormous psychological damages..."