I'm in the third of four airports I'm visiting to-day. I left from Tokyo's Narita Airport on Wednesday afternoon and arrived at Seoul's Icheon Airport Wednesday evening and then went back to Wednesday afternoon to arrive here, at LAX. My final stop will be San Diego to catch up with Wednesday evening again.
Even just being in the Korean airport, I started to notice all the Japanese mannerisms I'd gotten used to. I went to a beer stand to buy a bottle of water and the girl working there looked incredulously at me. I swiped my card wrong and she gave me the bottle for free without saying anything. There's something that would absolutely never happen in Japan.
Yes, a beer stand. Icheon airport has dozens of shops with signs that just say "Liquor and Tobacco". I guess they didn't have the wave of social engineering Japan had to wipe out cigarette smoking.
Koreans are so pale. The airport buggies constantly play electronic music, like it's a Disney parade. Mostly The Nutcracker. I had to restrain myself from laughing the third time a pretty, straight backed young woman with very serious bright red lips drove by with the carnival music. I pictured to myself what it would be like if she was really having a ball, laughing and waving and bobbing along with the music.
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