::A Geek in Korea::

Korean farmers have a unique ability to drive me insane when they are vending their wares. I’m not talking about the independent farmers that sell stuff at markets. That’s fine. The people that drive me up a wall are the noise polluting farmers that sell from their trucks. These people have horrible sound systems hooked up to bull horns set to the noisest, most distorted level.

Listen to this Farmer as he sells his onions to everyone in earshot.

That was recorded on my mp3 player as I walked by while he was a block away. Most apartments don’t allow people selling stuff into their block, so these farmers will set their speakers to incredibly loud volumes, park outside for ten or twenty minutes, drive everyone insane, then drive off. This guy was waiting for people to come over and buy his green onions.

These farmers make everything sound this bad. Strawberries. Potatoes. Watermelon. Anything delicious you’d love to eat gives you a headache as they pimp their wares with noise pollution. The only other noisy thing in Korea is the mae-mi, or cicada, which also can be deafening.

If the farmers selling produce out of their trucks could only teach the cicadas how to sell produce, we’d be driven mad by their 24-hour assult on our sense of hearing. Don’t EVER tell them it was my idea.