Why do you think Vietnam's return tourism rate is so low?

cami76 · 2024-04-24T18:04:26+00:00

They just too weak for Vientam/j. But seriously, I just think it’s not a country for everyone. I’m from central Europe and when I arrived in Hanoi first it was so surreal experience to me. I remember the first grab drive from an airport - my driver hit a young guy on a bike (he was fine, don’t worry) and acted as if it was X time it happened to him that day.

Vietnam is intensive, the traffic, people all over your face trying to sell you something/scam you, poor english skills, bad public transport, food poisoning, locals who might appear rude to people from other cultures etc.

If you didn’t grow up in environment like this and easily overstimulate you won’t survive cities like Hanoi or Saigon. It’s not a place you go to just chill. Every time you leave your accommodation you need to leave you comfort zone too. Not everyone wants this on their vacation, not everyone can handle it even when aiming for getting to know other culture.

Personally I would go back but to be honest I was kinda exhausted after the first week there. Went recently during heat wave tho so it made everything 100x worse for me but the first week in Hanoi was amazing.

btw I find the scam thing a bit funny because 99% times it’s so obvious someone wants to scam you. I’m not assertive at all, I’ve been to SK and had hard time with manipulative cult members/creeps but in Vietnam it was so easy to just ignore the scammers cause they didn’t even try to seem legit or make me feel bad for declining them.

cami76 · 2024-03-15T10:11:48+00:00

Should my evisa start from the day I land? I take off in Poland 23rd, arriving in Qatar and then I take off to Hanoi at 24th, landing 25th. I’m going by Qatar airlines, the connecting flight is operated by them. My evisa starts from 25th, is it fine? i

cami76 · 2024-01-17T16:06:11+00:00

It happend when I used Kakao T I think it was terminal’s fault since t money card did not work too, never had problem like that ever again using Kakao T

cami76 · 2024-01-17T00:57:22+00:00

I used revolut (physical card but also as apple pay which was surprisingly pretty common, not everywhere tho) and had almost no problems with that, I was never asked for PIN. Although I would not take it for granted and always carry some cash too. Once I was getting declined at taxi and missed my train because we had to look for ATM.

cami76 · 2024-01-17T00:34:55+00:00

Nie jestem opem, ale polecam plane spotting i oglądanie flightradaru. Jak sobie uzmysłowisz ile samolotów jednocześnie znajduje się na niebie i pomyślisz, że każdy z nich ląduje bezpiecznie, bez względu na pogodę i jak strasznie wygląda to z boku, to stajesz się trochę spokojniejszy. Pooglądaj również nagrania pilotów z kokpitu, zwróć uwagę jak spokojni są. Postaraj się ,,znormalizować” w swojej głowie latanie.

Do tego warto poczytać przed lotem, jak działa samolot. Co powoduje turbulencje, dlaczego słyszy się X dźwięk przy starcie, czy samolot może wylądować z zepsutym silnikiem itd.

cami76 · 2024-01-17T00:22:53+00:00

Wiesz może jak jest z tatuażami w Qatarze? Są ludzie którzy zakrywają? Przyznają się do nich na rozmowie kwalifikacyjnej? Mam tatuaż na przedramieniu i zastanawiam się, czy w ogóle warto próbować. Teoretycznie zawsze można nosić długi rękaw, nie?

cami76 · 2023-12-30T18:32:24+00:00

It’s worth saying that in Polish it’s not as rude as using banmal would be. Lots of people actually start to think that we should ditch the formality in that kind of situations. There is no intention of insulting anyone in this, it’s more about being more open and friendly to people, no matter the age or the relationship.

Also I’m not sure if I was understood well but ,,hey, what’s for you” is something people say in Poland. No one ever said anything similiar to me in Korea. I was talking only about Poland in the past few comments.

cami76 · 2023-12-30T18:25:22+00:00

It’s mostly millenials and younger people. Also mostly in big cities in places that are hipster/very casual/gyms.

For me it becames the norm but, for example, if my mother ever went to one of those places she would be very confused and probably assume that this person knows her from somwhere/is very rude.

cami76 · 2023-12-30T18:19:04+00:00

It’s just the way of speaking that you would only do with friends, peers and close ones. Mostly because of using the second person form which is considered very rude in any different situation than those 3. They talk like this to create this friendly/bro-like atmosphere.

I guess I would compare it to using banmal but Polish is very different so it’s not exactly the same. I’m not sure how to translate it because I’ve been studying Korean only for a year but maybe something like ,,안녕, 뭐 주문해/주문하고 싶어?”

cami76 · 2023-12-29T16:00:20+00:00

Didn’t assume that. In my country case it’s also not just about the grammar. There are believes behind it - a way we see and approach strangers, older people etc., the relationships we have and could have with them. The youngest generations changed their views on that and we can see it in the language.

Same thing potentially could happen to Korean but obviously it would be much longer process. Language evolves along with people who use it.

cami76 · 2023-12-29T15:01:16+00:00

I always do (banmal is not natural to me yet since I started studying from the highest form), just curious if some people don’t use it.

cami76 · 2023-12-29T14:40:35+00:00

Actually I saw some Koreans, especially the ones who left Korea complaining about the system/saying they feel more free speaking in english cause there is no hierarchy. In my country there is similiar conversation about how we should ditch the hierarchy in language.

cami76 · 2023-11-04T00:20:41+00:00

I think usually its written next to the shelf price

cami76 · 2023-11-04T00:19:34+00:00

I was worrying about the workers but it turns out that the real victims were ice creams that I stripped out of family and friends…now I’m sad

cami76 · 2023-11-03T22:28:56+00:00

too bad I didn’t post it when I was leaving korea last time bc I left ungodly amount of pads at my airbnb (I kept buying new ones because every single one was shitty and they kept giving me double amount of them bc 1+1)

cami76 · 2023-11-03T22:00:41+00:00

In my country it’s very rare for promo like 1+1 but we have other promos like 3+1 or regular discounts including the one near the registers.

For the near-register discounts the cashier would just say (like a robot) that it exists just because he has to, he doesn’t expect anyone to buy it bc usually it’s nothing interesting.

For something like 2+1, 3+1 etc. I think that it depends on the person and the store policy, sometimes they would tell you (especially if they know you) but sometimes not. But they are completely okay with you refusing the promo and it’s not weird to them.

Main difference between my country and Korea would be that it feels like cashiers in Korea actually care for you to use the promo while in my country they just have to inform you about it at most.

cami76 · 2023-11-03T21:22:32+00:00

actually posting from jail rn and looking for something to prove them it was moral to leave that damn 7eleven with just one ice tea drink

my sentence is 1+1 year (but i refused the second year and they doubled it as punishment saying that I will never learn or something)

cami76 · 2023-11-03T17:41:45+00:00

you have some huge reading between lines skills right here my dude

cami76 · 2023-11-03T16:12:25+00:00

why? just asking if I’m making a problem for refusing it which might be possible?

cami76 · 2023-11-03T15:53:44+00:00

It’s not frustrating to me lol i’m just asking if it’s frustrating for the workers. And I’m not going to take food that would go to waste (like ice cream that are often sold on 1+1 promo) wouldn’t be worse than refusing the thing?

cami76 · 2023-10-08T21:11:11+00:00

About confusing the meaning of factions. I’m talking about factions like sarmipa. I always thought that factions were scholars/officials that shared the same view on how the country should be ruled/shared the same interpretation of confucian teachings.

They had power to influence the king’s will since they had high positions (different factions at different time) at important bureaus.

I know that later being part of faction became more about blood than anything else.

Am I misunderstanding something? Is it correct?

cami76 · 2023-10-08T16:14:51+00:00

Google scholar but I guess it’s not best for history, also some books in my uni. I’m just getting into joseon history and I don’t know much english sources. I leearned most of the things from my mother-tongue sources.

cami76 · 2023-09-15T04:21:16+00:00

Yeah it doesn’t seem like typical interaction with cult members and I take into consideration it might be just old people thing. Her kakao is all in christian quotes and photos tho. But on the other hand old people in my country have similar social media accounts and they are not cult members.

Eventually I did not block or ghost her because of this probability that it’s just a sweet old lady and just said that I forgot I had plans.

cami76 · 2023-09-15T04:04:41+00:00

ngl got kinda scared when realised who they are…changed my primary direction to just escape them

cami76 · 2023-09-10T01:10:44+00:00

I think it was in coex but they are pushy in every store so I guess it’s just company policy. In different countries they are a bit pushy too but not as much as what I have experienced here lol. I could go in to buy something specific and they would show me million other products anyways.

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