Now and then, you will notice a noble but also a vanishing
Korean cultural trait where young people give up their seats in a bus or a subway
for the elderly. But today, as I entered
the subway at Wangsimni station to go to Samseong station, the courtesy was
offered to me by a young man. Thinking there might be an old person behind me, I turned my head to see. But there was no one around. It took a few more seconds to realize that
the young man was giving up his seat for me.
Tried to refuse him politely but as he stood, he was already busy in his
mobile phone.
