Kimchi News

After spending some time here in Korea, I've begun to notice some behavior patterns.  These behaviors may be humorous, irritating, slightly racist ("they're just curious" if you mention it to Koreans), or some combination of the three.  When I worked with my good American friend here, we would point out and vent to each other about these actions, as a sort of "buddy therapy" system.  These behaviors can become quite stressful.  Now that I don't work with him or see him as much, I needed to find a new avenue to express my stress in a healthy way.  I came up with two possible options: 1. punching faces or 2. creative writing.  With the possibility of deportation and/or getting my ass kicked, I decided option 2 was the much better route.  Inspired by The Onion, I came up with the idea of Kimchi* News.  Like The Onion, my news stories are fictional, names and places were made up by me, but the stories are inspired by actual observations I've made here.

*note: kimchi is a pickled/spiced cabbage side dish, and basically the national food here.  Koreans say it's not a meal without kimchi (and rice).  Well now it's not news without kimchi.  So without further ado here is the first edition of Kimchi News:

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