Hello!

In South Korea, that means "nice to see you." That's why South Korea wins my award for OVERALL BEST OF THE TWO KOREAS. (It also wins the award for BRIGHTEST KOREA AS SEEN FROM OUTER SPACE.)

This week, about 15 to 20 South Korean journalists came to The Daily Collegian -- and instead of trying to blow us up with nuclear missiles, like their northern counterparts, they were trying to learn about freedom of the press. And where better to go to learn about freedom of the press than a college newspaper in the middle of Pennsylvania?

So rather than travel anywhere this week, I sat back and let a group of people travel to me. And now:

THINGS I LEARNED ABOUT SOUTH KOREAN JOURNALISTS THIS WEEK

Note: All observations are merely observations about this particular group of South Korean journalists and are not meant to reflect on South Korean journalists as a whole.

• South Korean journalists like to take photos. Of everything. As soon as we started talking, cameras came out.



• South Korean journalists do not respect personal space. They were getting all up in our business, reading over our shoulders and the like.
• South Korean journalists like Starbucks. A few of them brought a whole bunch of Starbucks coffees into our meeting and distributed them to each other, which is cool, but they interrupted our meeting and didn't give any coffee to us. And in America, whenever you bring someone coffee, you should make sure you have enough for everyone.



• South Korean journalists do not have to work. They can apparently take really long breaks where they go on tours of college newspapers in America and don't do anything.
• South Korean journalists treat us like professionals and ask why we do not get paid, a question we ask ourselves every day.