Tuesday, November 28, 2006
Payday Korean Style
In most places, you'd have to be a stripper, drug dealer or general contractor to get paid in cash. Not in Korea. I get my monthly paycheck in a fat envelope filled with fresh bills. If you can have this done for you at least once in your life, it really is nice to actually see the brick of money you make. In Korea, the highest denomination is 10,000 won. I get paid about 2,000,000 per month so that's 200 bills. That makes for 2 nice wrapped bricks of bills. I hope I'll have a bank account in the near future. It will be really fun to bring a briefcase full of bills into a bank and request an account. There's something very James Bond villian-esque about that situation.
