Questions that have plagued my subconscious mind for too long.


1. Why do Korean supermarkets always play techno music?

2. Why can't any normal person understand the theories of general and special relativity for more than one minute?

3. Why hasn't Korea created its own western food restaurant chains like Japan has? If there's a western food restaurant here it's definitely American (TGI Friday's, the Outback...).

4. WHY ARE THE TRAFFIC LIGHTS HERE SO STINK'N LONG!?

5. Why does being an adolescent mean you have to hate the opposite sex, teachers, work in general and objectiveness?

6. Why are the most moving movies about suffering, hardship and sacrifice? I like the ones that at least end happy.

7. Why is everything that tastes good bad for you?

8. Why is life so painful (emotionally/psychologically or physically)? Some people have "chronic" intense physical pain that has to be managed at a pain clinic. How do they deal with it?

9. Why do our brains totally shut off every time we sleep? Isn't it weird that for a while every night we have absolutely no memory of anything we are doing? Come to think of it, if I could remember sleeping for eight hours I think I'd get bored and go do something else.

10. How did Koreans first acquire the taste for kimchi, soju and spicy everything? Were their taste buds historically physiologically different from caucasians so that they naturally liked hotter foods and old cabbage doused in vinegar?

11. Why do my bathroom slippers say "Pink Knife" even though they're cream colored, flowered and don't look anything like a pink knife.