July's Up!

Its the closure of the month and I have just returned from my Seoul Trip. The first trip to the capitol city since getting back to Korea last January.

Nothing of major importance happened. I went to Gumi the day before in order to get our wedding photos taken care of and basically prepare for our interview. 

We arrived in Seoul where I spent a lot of my time being bored. We met a couple of her cousins by accident although I am certain the family managed to get everyone to contact each other. I was angry because I wanted a private vacation with my wife but to my chagrin we just ended up visiting. 

Am I wrong? Am I getting old before my time? 

I have worked everyday in Korea including Saturdays just to make money. I had a small problem that festered because Koreans can't admit that their methodology sucks. I ended up quitting and just wanted 2 days without thinking of KOREAN family, KOREAN language, and housework but NO I couldn't even escape that. 

After getting up at 8am on Friday after a restless night we went to the Visa place to fill out paperwork. My wife had to go make copies and apparently we didn't need to get our record notarized so we wasted maybe 60-90 dollars oops oh well whats money uh? 

We paid another 450 dollars for processing etc and were out lickedy split  or under an hour. 10:51 we went out to have our first meal of the day and plan what could have been a vac period but we decided that we had had enough BS for the day and took a bus for 5 hours back to Busan. 

I didn't talk to one foreigner in Seoul and as it turned out all the processing etc was done by Koreans. I really couldn't understand why Americans can't run their own embassy. I was treated in a cold manner as was my wife and instead of just doing the decent thing we were told to come back in 3 weeks even though I officially had an appointment. 

Everyone here's the message I have for you. I hate Korea and I am not going to hide behind pretenses. My feelings have deep reasons that go back to my early Gumi days. 

There are plenty of good things here but they don't out weigh the negatives at least to me. I think every Korean person needs to step back and think that the way Europeans, Americans, even the god awful Japanese live is at times better than Korea. Korea isn't the best. They are so arrogant and too proud of themselves in my view. 

People are afraid to step out of their box because they are afraid that they will lose what little they already have. 

Its August and its time to find a new job and start again this is the last fresh start I will attempt.