Let them never think of this idea.
Korean life August 28th. 2008, 10:00pmKorean 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.
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August 29th, 2008 at 6:35 am
It’s not only farmers, but also fish, pots and pans, and other Korean staple, sellers.
My thin-walled apartment was also very close to the neighborhood’s public address system. Well, public speakers blaring from nine in the morning beats China were many are called to public exercise at seven every morning through similar noisy, and intrusive, means.
John, no longer in Daejeon (for the time being)