Hello everyone! How are you today?

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Today I would like to share a little about Korea and my brother's trip. In my previous posts, I said that I have a brother to study in Korea. He has been studying for nearly six months in Vietnam and is now preparing to fly to Korea for study.

Prepare

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Only six more days, my brother went to Korea. So my family had to prepare everything for him. Everything seems simple but really not simple. We have to list all the items needed for him.

It took us almost two days to list the things my brother needed to bring. We have to optimize everything for the convenience of my brother. A lot of furniture from big to small like: Blankets, Pillows, Clothing, Toothpaste, Towels, shampoo, instant noodles, fish sauce, soup powder .... very much. My parents had to calculate enough for my brother to use for 3 months. After 3 months, if missing, my brother has to buy himself.

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You see, this is just a small piece of furniture that my brother has to carry

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You can see everything is prepared from the smallest things like shampoo. My mom has a long list of items for that. In addition, my mother also prepared him a box of roast dry meat, in Vietnam we call it "Ruốc" (it is lean meat is then pounded dry roast) You do not know it, right?

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It's a lot of steps, because my brother stayed there for a long time, so my mother made this dish for my brother's convenience, every time I eat it I just need to take it out and eat it without any processing, and it Also to be very long without fear of broken or moldy.

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At first the meat is roasted and pounded out like this

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Then tear it apart

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Finally, put it on dry roast, and it will look like this. Now if we want to eat we just take out and enjoy

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Looks simple but very time consuming to make this dish, me and mother spent 4 hours to do it.

That is the preparation of material things, but also a little hard work that I did not mention that is the procedure, papers, applications from ...

To complete the procedure for my brother to study abroad, my parents have to go to work many kinds of applications ... there are days my father has to go to 4 5 times to ask my brother for the paper. At that time my father was almost exhausted, always see my father tired. Fortunately, everything is done.

My family is happy to know that my brother received a visa, but also sad to think that 6 days is my brother must go. The period of 5 years is too long. We will miss him very much

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Yesterday, my father and I exchanged money for my brother. Since he lives in Korea, we have to exchange Korean money for him. It took almost 1 afternoon to be able to exchange money because we have to go to international banks can be exchanged.

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Korean currency is 21 times higher than Vietnam.

Expensive life in Korea

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To calculate the money for my brother to use for 2 months. I had to research online and asked my relatives living in Korea. At first I was a bit surprised at the price and expense in Korea, which is too expensive in Vietnam.

Living expenses in Korea ranks 22nd among the world's most expensive cities. For my brother living one day in Korea, he has to pay 500k Vietnam, it's just money to eat, not including house money because my brother is in the hostel of the school. It's 10 times when he lived in Vietnam

The life of the Korean people is very high but we only have a hard time at the beginning, when my brother gets a job there, he will arrange for himself and my parents do not need to send money to him again.

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This is the statistics my parents calculated for my brother in a month in Korea.

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Pork in Korea is five times more expensive in Vietnam

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1 cup of Korean noodles is priced at 170k Viet Nam. OMG

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What surprised me the most was vegetables in Korea, they say even vegetables are more expensive than meat. while in Vietnam the opposite.

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One thing that makes my parents a little worried is my brother's "Transportation" in Korea. Because it has no means of traveling there. It would be expensive if you take the subway.

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In general, everything in Korea is very expensive, many times more than in Vietnam, but it is also a normal problem because Korean life is very high. My parents showed my brother how to spend reasonable. Hope it will be useful to him.

Hope he will study well, work hard, earn lots of money. After 5 years of study, my family will be proud of him.

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By: @thethor1122}