Hello!
This is the first shooting after I came back,
and here is Hyehwa.
I'm going to Starbucks.
Yeah, I'm kinda sick of Starbucks now, but...
I just got a text that my 'gifticon' is gunna be expired in 15 days
so I'm going to Starbucks again
just to use my gifticon
Today, I'm gunna talk about what I felt traveling US, as a person who has never been there before.
Above all, I'm about to edit the part that I was coming back from Vancouver to Seattle.
So let's check it out together.
Finally!
The line is short.
There're only few people today.
It's the same.
It's exactly the same.
They got your name wrong.
On the next day, we went to the airport, and came back to Korea.
It was a long trip!
It was fun!
Look at the weather.
So foggy.
Trip to America is special to anyone.
Cuz, to me, there were things that I like and don't like about America.
The good thing was that,
the 'freedom' that they have.
But on the other hand, the bad thing,
when I went to English cram school as a kid back then,
some friends who studied abroad didn't like Korea after experiencing western culture.
"This thing in Korea is not like that at least in US!"
"So Korea sucks."
That kinda attitude looked so bad to me at that time.
I also studied English for a long time as a mean of communication,
but I didn't like people who worshiped just becuz it's American cultures.
But I was curious, cuz I've never been to America.
and I finally made this trip, so all my last memories were coming out again
so I knew I was gunna realize many things about American culture.
You don't know how much I missed CVS during the trip.
Yeah, and then,
I realized so many things, but let me just tell you only one thing.
Um, this is about an expression, 'cool'.
In fact, from the first day, I realized they really often say this expression, 'cool'.
"I studied economics, or some other majors."
"That's cool!"
"I've traveled somewhere"
"Very cool"
"I'm doing video blogging"
"How cool"
The funny thing about this is that,
because they say this word so often,
I don't even know if they actually think it's cool when that say that.
Cuz, they say that so fast like this.
"Yeah, my name is Mickey Seo."
"That's cool"
Anyhow, they're trying to say I'm cool.
I was too new to this kinda expression, but a little later I got used to it,
and then I started to like it.
Let me tell you why.
As some of you may know,
I'm making videos after studying economics.
But then, now I'm gunna talk about something very sensitive.
This is my person opinion btw.
I think Koreans are often judgmental.
Judgement.
In English, we say 'judgemental'
Actually, this concept is too new to Korean, so we can't even find a word to translate.
But I'll just use the word '판단' in this clip.
In this vertical society called 'Korea',
what kind of school you're from, and how old you are,
and then what kinda job you have,
...are the things people will judge you by.
That's what I think.
Recently, I happaned to introduce myself to someone I got to know.
And then he asked me how old I am as soon as I told him my name.
and if I graduated, and what my job is.
It was like, he was trying to figure out all my personal details when it was just our first time to meet.
I actually don't usually tell my friends that I'm doing Youtube.
It's because people think that...
I'm likely have certain jobs just because I'm from this school and studied economics.
Like working for public enterprises, huge corporations, or taking national exams.
They have this kinda strong expectations on me,
so it takes too long time for me to explain what I wanna achieve.
Of course, I don't think my friends are gunna have bad judgements on me.
But still, it's like...
I feel I obligated to prove.
Sorta pressured.
Cuz, if I tell them I'm doing Youtube,
it's not like "Oh? Youtube? How did you do that?"
but it's "Oh?! Why do you wanna do?"
"What's your plan?"
I'm always under this kinda atmosphere.
I'd like to explain for them.
I mean, I wanna tell some stories, too.
but I can't express my style of my channel with words.
But then, I felt so comfy in America cuz people didn't care that much about this difference that I had.
When I tell I'm doing something, they're like,
"Oh, that's cool!"
These words,
I know they don't actually understand my job.
But they're not lying, either.
so it's like this.
In Korea, people are more homogenous and same,
so when I obtrude like this,
it looks quite unnatural,
and I'm like going somewhere alone,
and everybody else is looking at me like 'What the hell is that?'
but then in America, where there're many different people,
even if I obtrude, they're like 'What's wrong?'
That kinda atmosphere.
I just thought that could be a difference.
That's why I had positive impression on the word 'cool'.
And I kinda envied them, too, as a creator.
The atmosphere.
Of course, people living in the US might think...
"you just traveled for only two weeks"
"US is not necessarily like that when you live here"
I know what you mean,
which can be true to be honest.
But please consider that I'm just trying to talk about the difference in the atmosphere
purely as a Korean who mostly lived inside Korea.
In Mickey Seo episode 1,
which is called 'what's your plan?',
I said, whether you're national officers, police officers, fire fighters, or Youtubers,
we are all the same in that we all chose our paths following our own belief.
We're the same, I mean,
we just wanna support ourselves.
I'm making videos in Youtube
in order to show I'm no different from you, even though I do look different.
And it's because I have this kinda motive among all those different ones...
that I'd always love to make videos especially in Korea.
This is what I felt during my trip.
I'm so happy to finish this travel episodes btw.
I've got many other clips to make in Korea actually,
so I wanna work on my next clips.
So I'll be back on my original track, and see you in my usual Mickey Seo episodes.
(Explaning what happened in Korean)
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