In case you're waiting with bated breath to find out if I figured out how to take out my garbage, the answer is 'sort of.'
I finally got the good tip that you must buy special garbage bags from convenience stores. So for a few weeks I staked out every convenience store I could find. To no avail.
Finally I mustered up the courage to, as we tell children, 'use my words.' (Why I didn't do this sooner, I dunno...).
I went into one store and asked the guy working there if he spoke English. Nope. The next store I scoped out and saw it actually had a garbage with some bags in it in the back, so I got the girl to come to the garbage can, pointed frantically at the garbage bag and made a shrugging shoulders motion.
From my oscar-worthy performance, she knew what I meant, and turns out you actually have to ask for the garbage bags anyways. They keep them behind the desk and each district or area has it's own special garbage bags. Since Korea is such a tiny isthmus (It's Christmas, It's Christmas, I'm stuck here on an isthmus!), they make you recycle everything. Which I'm all for - I just can't seem to find the different places I'm supposed to take my different plastics.
If you go into somewhere like Starbucks or a fast food restaurant, for example, when you take your tray to the garbage, you have to sort your drink cup, your straw, your lid, liquids and any papers into different little holders or bins. Cool. I will try to get a picture for my blog, never seen anything like it. And we think we recycle!
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