What I'll miss and what I won't in Korea

So, I probably forgot a ton of things, and if I think of anymore, I will add them, but here are some things I'll miss about Korea, and some things I won't.

Things I’ll miss about Korea

1. Kimchee Chiggae (Kimchee Stew)
2. Friends I’ve made here
3. The things kids say
4. Kimbap Nara
5. Cheap, easy transportation from city to city
6. Fun events
7. Weird things to laugh over
8. Konglish
9. Being so close to many interesting countries to visit
10. Cute stickers
11. People in movie theaters having to dance and bow as you leave the theater
12. Everyone younger than you, or serving you, bowing to you
13. being able to bring anything you want to eat, or drink into a movie theater
14. Most restaurants being OK with you bringing outside food and drink in
15. Seeing animals died in funny colors on their ears and tails (pink, blue, green, yellow, purple)
16. Dakbokki (Rice cakes in a spicy sauce)
17. Dakgalbi (Spicy chicken and veggies cooked at your table)
18. Samgaebsal (the thin-sliced fatty pork kind specifically)
19. Servica! Especially useful, or cool servica… like Tupperware with your tuna, or face mask samples with your lotion purchase, or a bowl with your frosted flakes, etc.
20. Kiwi Soju
21. Noraebang
22. Staying out until 5am is normal, and isn’t hard to do
23. Trying new things
24. Love motels
25. Mandu
26. Ondol (Floor heating)
27. Being allowed to do what I want to do for the most part at work
28. Seoul
29. Cute Korean Songs and TV Shows
30. 5,000 won pizza

Things I won’t miss about Korea

1. Smelly streets
2. Piles of garbage everywhere
3. The miscommunications
4. Not being able to do a lot of things without a Korean speaker
5. Old, smelly Kimchi
6. Stinky silkworm larvae sold at street vendors
7. Adjushis and Adjummas staring when you:
Show your shoulders, or your shirt it too tight.
You have a tan
You eat
8. Feeling like a monkey in a zoo whenever I leave my officetel.
7. The crappy washer/dryer combo in my officetel
9. Foods that is too salty
10. Having to watch for motor traffic wherever you are… even on the sidewalk…
11. Not having seatbelts in your speeding taxi
12. Seeing blatant animal cruelty and neglect often
13. The Ninja-guerrilla-trained-mosquitoes
14. Being asked very personal questions
15. Random people trying to practice their English with you, or asking for illegal private lessons.
16. Not being able to have a choice in English TV
Not having access to a wide variety of foods outside of Korean food.
17. Not having a car
18. Koreans breaking traffic laws, making the roads hazardous
19.The humidity
20. Yellow Dust
21. Things that shouldn’t be sweet being sweet, and things that should be sweet, aren’t
22. People freaking out over Mad cow disease, North Korea, Melamine, and the H1N1 Virus
23. Protests
24. Small Apartments
25. Tiny kitchens and refrigerators
26. The whole bathroom being a shower
27. Uneven sidewalks
28. Squatters
29. Toilet paper not being in the bathroom stalls in many public areas.
30. People putting used toiled paper in the waste paper basket
31. No soap, or only gross-looking bar soap in restrooms
32. No clothes my size outside of Seoul
33. Classrooms that have no air conditioners/heaters
34. Assigned seating in movie theaters
35. Being lumped in with foreign teachers who do bad things
36. Not being told things until the last minute
37. Annoying Korean songs and TV Shows
38. Not being able to read anything that isn’t in English, or is in Korean, but is the same word as in English