Even Old Folks Do High-Fives

Culture is learned, tinkered with, emulated, rehearsed and finally practiced by people concerned. Of almost all the cultural facets in Korean society today, there is hardly anything but have been imported from the Western countries, including the U.S. The youth are obsessed with breakdances and all. It's kind of weird that even old folks are performing high-fives, with which we have not been familiar so far.

Coffee-drinking is an imported habit and culture, too. We sip coffees and savor their taste and aroma from early morning far into the night. Starbucks have turned out to be a metropolitan landscape, where not very rich customers dream of rising to the upper crust society.

“PC bahngs", that is, Internet cafes are city and town fixtures, in which cheap cigaret smokes make a trespassing into every lung and the unemployed and homeless find their temporary havens. They are nervous about the future but they feel the camaraderie of the besieged for the moment.