Blog #7

If you want to go for working holiday I want to recommend you that the Australia is best place to go. Australia’s area is 77times bigger than Korea and the population is two times lower than Korea. So if you are sick of traffic jam or many people bothering you in the subway or on the street than how about just go to Australia? A couple years ago, I went to Australia for working holiday and spent there about a years. When I was there I saw there are a lot of difference between Korea and Australia.

One of best difference was man’s toilet. Maybe you don’t know why it is different. In Korea, there is just one door so when you are having a pee you are exposed when somebody opens the door so every time felt shame. In contrast, Australia has two doors. Even if somebody opens the door they need to open the door twice and there is a certain interval so you never exposed somebody else.

I had an experience when I cross the crosswalk in Australia and like in Korea, I just waited that the car was passing but after several minutes car was still in there and asked me “are you passing?” than I felt little embarrassed because it never happen in Korea. Because in Korea, car is first and man second. So we should wait until car is passing. 

Other thing was people’s attitude. When people open the door they never care about the others. Therefore sometime people got hurt because of careless habit. In Australia, people’s always open the door and wait until the other person go out and smile and sometime they greeting each other. And just on the street they just say hello and wish me to good day. If you say hello to other person in Korea, you might become a strange and crazy person.

I am not talking about the Korea is bad and Australia is good. Because there are many good things we have and they don’t. However, I hope Korean someday become friendly to the stranger and care about than now. It is one of important way to become an advanced country because advanced country not only well developed civilization but also well-developed culture and spirit.