Seoul Fashion Mart

I'd like us to take a moment to mourn the passing of a good friend. Your favorite and mine, the Seoul Fashion Mart, has been closed. Being the first store that Emily and I purchased clothes at, we were obviously moved to find that they were packing their merchandise into boxes and closing their doors. Full of cheap knock-off clothing, it always had something new to entertain us.

English in Korea is very popular, much the same way that Oriental writing has come in and out of fashion in Canada. People wear things without the slightest idea of what it says. Sometimes this has horribly inappropriate results (4 year olds should not be wearing explicit shirts) and other times it is rather humorous. Some of them just have giant pictures of people like Justin Timberlake and Orlando Bloom ("Who broke Orlando's heart?") and others have more writing on them.

Some of the most memorable (and appropriate) T-shirt sayings have been:

"Chair" (With pictures and names of different chairs on it)
"People make noises when they're sick"
"Sunshine makes me high"
"I've got the giggles"
"Look who's turning two today! Two! That's twice as old as one!"
"Come, let's walk with vigorous strides"
"Speedy Car Wash - GD Midget Power"
"Life isn't always beer and skittles"
"A Bathing Ape - Ape shall never kill ape."
"Canada - Established 1868" (That's the wrong year, just as a reminder)
"I'll bet you wish you had a boyfriend that would buy you all sorts of presents, like jewels and rubies, but you don't. Maybe next year, when you've got boobies."