Seoul's cultural life

It's really difficult to post every day. Right now it's already almost three o'clock sunday morning... well in Germany it's still saturday.
Today, I got up at five o'clock in the afternoon. The reason for sleeping all day, is again the same as it already was in Madrid. I was out Friday night and came home at six thirty in the morning. It was a really nice night. I went out me, Robert, his friend
with two Korean friends. First we just went in a bar and drank a beer. Then we went to the Lime Light, our disco here in Itaewon (my area) and finally, at five o'clock in the morning we went to Norebang (Karaoke) and sang, as far as this was possible in our state... When we left the Norebang it was already light, and it reminded me a lot of my days in Madrid... I miss Madrid.
Well, but today, I also had a really nice day. So right after I got up, we went to the city to meet a Korean girl, we had met once before. She invited us out to eat in a reallyexpensive and good restaurant. On the picture you can see traditional Korean food. It is typical, that's it's being served in these small plates and everybody just uses his chop sticks to grab it. I really love it. After dinner (for me lunch) we had to cross the whole city to go to a theater near the city hall and watch a Korean traditional dance performance. It included dancing, percussion and singing. It was really great and I'm glad I went. Unfortunately we were not allowed to take pictures during the perfomance. Josephina, Tschongi, me, Christoph
Finally we went to a "Hof" (name used for restaurantlike bars), were you can drink bear and eat small side dishes. We talked a lot about German and Korean culture with the girl, Josephina (her English name... every Korean has an English name to make it easier for foreigners to remember them). She for example told me, that Korean girls live with their parents until they get married. She is 32 and still lives at home. She also still has to be home at twelve. Crazy, isn't it? For boys this is totally different. Robert, a friend, he can be home whenever he wants to, but he also lives with his parents until he gets married. Although Korea is already also very much influenced by western cultures (compared to five years ago), people very much stick to their basic rules, which in my opinion is good. The obedient behavior of younger people (even among friends) towards older people is just one example. There are soo many things, it would take me a day to write them down. I think it is very interesting. Of course, for foreigners this is not necessary, but I still try to follow their rules.

OK, finally some more or less interesting remarks.

Toilets: a little bit disgusting... in bars and discothecs on the toilet doors they always write, that you should not throw the toiletpaper into the toilet. First I couldn't believe it, but it's really true.

Drinking alcohol: there are many rules for drinking alcohol. The younger person has to pure the alcohol in the older persons' glasses. The younger person has to turn away when drinking. You have to use both hands when holding the bottle or pitcher.

Paying: When buying something in a store, the clerk will give you the change with both hands. Anyway, holding things with both hands is very common. It shows politeness.

OK, enough, I have to sleep.