'O yeh, if someone knocks you over in the street, don't take it personally, that's just Korea. I mean I saw a bus literally knock down an old lady and nobody seemed to mind - I think the bus driver was even annoyed at the old lady.' - Erm, ok? I thought as my new American friend Pam was going through the various do's and don'ts of Korean Culture... ...After all coming from the land where queuing is not only a necessity but a national past time, the idea of someone being what I would term as rude and instead of berated with a barrage of tutting, that being the normal behavior is an odd concept. - I am of course not including that delightful subspecies of our Kingdom, The Chav, to whom manners are not
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