hi everyone as I promised in today's video I'm going to talk about five
things that you must know before traveling to the US for those of you who
don't know me my name is yuna and I'll be posting a lot about Korean and
American culture in all my videos along with my vlogs so please like this video and
subscribe if you can cuz that means a lot to me also if you haven't watched my
other video on things you must know before traveling to Korea please do that I will drop the
link down below. and if you are ready, here we g..
the first one I'll say is the size of the country the u.s. is
about 3.8 million square miles big that means it's 10 million square kilometers
for your reference South Korea is about 38 thousand square miles which is about
a hundred thousand square kilometers if that doesn't give you the idea it takes
about six hours to fly from San Diego which is where I live to the city of New
York and like today there was my friend's birthday party at Los Angeles
and it took me about three hours to get there which is considered more than
two to three hours of drive back and forth within the same days actually
completely mom in there so if you're planning on traveling to the States
try to stay for at least one week and unless you wanna spend most of the times
on the highway don't be like oh we'll eat breakfast in San Francisco and then
go win some dollars in las Vegas before coming down to Los Angeles and
eat lunch there and go hang out with yuna in San Diego for dinner because that's just not going to
happen with that said my second one is to realize that there are 50 states here
in the United States of America so be aware that every states have
different rules politics foods even the accent and etc
so depending on which area you are traveling things might be really
different since I can't really tell you guys about every aspects of 50 different
states here in the video I would recommend researching a little bit about
the specific states you are going to travel in number three is that you might
feel like Americans are a little bit too friendly
I mean they are very friendly but sometimes it might just be different
ways of communicating here in the states and in Korea for example let's say
you're trying to get American stuff in Korea it'll probably be something like
this
and that's it right but in the States or at least in San Diego at the nearby
Starbucks I always go to this is how the conversation usually goes hi how are
you what can I get for you I'm good and one tall americano please all right and
that's great are you up to anything I'll just a meal with a friend and I'm
just gonna chill at home it's not really that Americans are nicer than Koreans
but it's like their ways of saying hello and when you go to a restaurant a
servant sometimes writes the"have a nice day" on your receipt with the smiley
face which is just another way of saying goodbye and asking for some more tips. Speaking of tips, number four is
tipping I won't go too in depth for this topic because you guys should already
have an idea what is up but yes tipping is completely voluntary and you are not
forced to tip anyone but unofficially you are expected to pay around 15 to 20
percent in sit-down restaurants and just a fun fact in some states the hourly
rate is as low as two three dollars because most of their earnings come from
tips and the last one is your transportation unlike Korea where
hailing a taxi is relatively easy it can be pretty frustrating in the state and I
feel like there are a lot less tax feeling the state's been in Korea
ratio-wise but I'm not sure anyways I would say the main ways of
transportation here in the state's now is uber and lyft now I heard over did not
do so well in Korea mainly because of the strong opposition from local
authorities and taxi drivers but it's actually all over the country here and
you simply have to download the app call with the transit details and you're all
set I think that's a convenient way of you know going to different places and I
would definitely take advantage of it that is all I got for today and if you
want to know anything about Korea or America please let me know in the
comments below and I'll see you guys in the next video bye
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