Shoes

Korean culture maintains the idea that you must remove your shoes before going into the main part of a building, all places with such rules have a sort of lobbyish area for you to dump your shoes.  If it's your place of work you will probably have sandals of some sort and if not you go socks.

So that means at work everybody is sporting the uber unfashionable socks with sandals look.  It also means that the extra pair of smart shoes I bought for work can only be worn on the way into work...yeah they'll last longer, but it sucks, I could have just stuck with my old pair.


Also, because they don't heat the hallways of their schools, just the classrooms, it means that my feet are generally freezing walking from one place to the other.  However I can see that during the summer time I will enjoy and cool place I can find.  So it's a good thing that I have A/C in my room, both at work and at home.

So, yeah the shoes thing, I did anticipate it, but I failed to see it coming for work.