Old lady 7

On the last day in Seoul, I decided that we would walk to Seoul Station to catch the limo bus instead of taking the airport shuttle in front of the hotel.

While we were consulting the area map a well meaning old lady, hunched over like the number 7 offered directions.

"Japanese?"
"Chinese?"
- "Ah yes yes Chinese, we speak English"
I showed her on the map that we want to go to Seoul Station and she offered to walk us there.
"English?"
- "Yes yes"

She took us back to the city hall station, which was opposite direction of where we want to be and told us to take the subway...

"ticket ticket!"

We didn't want to hurt the lady's feelings, so we took the subway to Seoul Station.

As the tour guide told us the day before, all Korean kids have to learn English from school, but it focuses on Leading. "What?" "Leading!!!" Koreans do not usually use the R sound, so it's easy to get into fun situations like that.

While we were looking for the limo bus in Seoul Station, I asked some soldier types for help, thinking that the hip youngsters will speak better English. I also took care to ask one with a girlfriend, so there is more incentive to show off and offer assistence.

"Go back down stairs to bus stop, whoosh!"

The limo buses uses a different bus stop, so it took us a while to figure out.