Credit cards and elevators

Not much new to post here. My credit card got disabled today... apparently making purchases in Korea sets off some of the automated anti-fraud rules, and so I have to get my card reactivated. So for anyone else planning on coming to Korea in the future, I would advise you to call your credit card company ahead of time to notify them that there will in fact be some suspicious looking purchases in the near future.



This is pretty random, but I saw this picture in an elevator. I don't know what the Korean says underneath, but whatever that guy's doing, I want to do it too because he looks he's having an *awesome* time. Look how happy and excited he is! I'm guessing it's "please don't jump and down in the elevator" (because it makes the elevator sad), but if they don't want you to do it, they shouldn't make it look so tempting.

Another interesting aspect of the elevators is that many of them are not wired together. In the US, when you press up or down, there's a small program that determines which of the N elevators it should send to your floor. Many of the elevators here each have their own separate up/down request buttons. So you have to manually check to see which floor each elevator is on (and which direction it's going) and then press the up (or down) button on the elevator that you think will arrive the soonest. To improve average transit times, they also divide the elevators such that some will only stop, for example, on odd floors while the remaining will only stop on even floors (or some other such partitioning... for instance they all usually stop on the first floor).