Blog #4 The Story of Stuff (Question # 2)

I was born in South Korea and I grew up there until I was fifteen. I am still watching Korean TV shows and dramas and its cultures are still more close to my life; in fact, I don’t usually watch other U.S channels. There are some differences in the prevalence of advertisement, re-use waste system and leisure time.

First, in Korea, they don’t usually advertise actual goods that they want to sell. The advertisers use some famous actor or actress to perform like short and nice drama or movie cut to present their goods. That way consumer can get ideas if she or he can be one of the actor or actress in their life. Moreover, Korea is small countries; smaller than New York State, many young Koreans do care others’; they always follow the stylish celebrities. Therefore, advertisements’ famous celebrities bring more impact in Korea.

There is different system of re-use and waste management in Korea; they have to pay for garbage bags. In the U.S, we can use any plastic bags to dump any garbage; however, they can not use any plastic bags in Korea. They have standard garbage bag with different size and price. Also, they have to do recycle even they are living in apartment. Therefore, many Koreans try to reduce their garbage; they usually don’t use plastic bags in the supermarket and use machine to dry food waste.

There are many things to do during the leisure time in Korea. First of all, there are many places to spend leisure time. For example, there are many safety small parks each county that open till late night. Also, there are many saunas to relax with cheap price.

As you can see, there are some differences between U.S and Korea in the prevalence of advertisement, re-use waste system and leisure time.

This is the picture of one of the park in capital city Seoul.