East Is East
‘Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet’Rudyard KiplingOn first arriving here in Korea five years ago, that old adage of Rudyard Kipling’s seemed to have a certain ring of truth about it: everything in the East, at least in regards to Korea, seemed to run contrary to the western mores I was so accustomed to in Ireland and elsewhere. The language barrier was the first obvious obstacle to confront the innocent abroad, but there were other traits that ran contrary to my own thinking. For one thing, the squatting on the floor of a restaurant over dinner or the fact that
- Nigel McClatchey
- 2007-11-30 15:59